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Training on Social Impact Assessment and Management
Date:
19/06/2013
Excerpt:
This course provides an overview of leading industry practice of SIA consistent with IAIA's International Principles for Social Impact Assessment. The course addresses current issues and topics that are relevant to the business of managing the social impacts of planned interventions. IMPACT Course on Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Date:
17/06/2013
Excerpt:
The International Health Impact Assessment Consortium (IMPACT) will be running its comprehensive HIA Training Course on 17 June, and again later in the year on 11 November, 2013. The Policy-Relevancy of Impact Assessment Tools: Evaluating Nine Years of European Research Funding
Date:
13/06/2013
Excerpt:
Scientific tools should play an essential role of providing the evidence base to assess the impacts of alternative policy options. To identify the contribution of research funding for impact assessment tool development, this paper analysed the variety of IA tools designed in projects funded by European Framework Programmes 6 and 7. ... LIAISE at Conference on Impact Assessment in Europe
Date:
10/06/2013
Excerpt:
LIAISE researcher John Turnpenny (UEA) spoke as an invited panel member at a conference on "Theory and Practice of Regulatory Impact Assessments in Europe" in Paris on 10 June, 2013. John presented and discussed the LIAISE WP1 work linking tool use across eight EU jurisdictions with motivations for appraising. 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA): "The Next Generation"
Date:
13/05/2013
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The conference theme embraces the impact of current global change now and in the coming decades and how impact assessment (IA) itself will evolve as a result. The "next generation" refers to both a new generation of practitioners and new approaches to IA practice internationally to address issues of global concern. ... Science for Environmental Policies: Choosing between Established and Innovative Policy Measures
Date:
25/04/2013
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Policy decisions often have to choose between a new option that could bring high potential improvements, but more uncertain results, and another option that is less promising, but has better known results. The study proposes using 'info-gap theory' to inform policy decisions where these dilemmas exist. ... 2nd European Environmental Evaluators Networks Forum
Date:
09/04/2013
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The 2nd European Environmental Evaluators Network Forum will take place from 9-10 April, 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. The upcoming event will be about the evaluation of sustainability transitions with a focus on innovation programmes and environmental policies and objectives. Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Research in an Age of Austerity - SDRN Review of the UK Sustainable Development Research and Policy Landscapes
Date:
10/03/2013
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The Sustainable Development Research Network (SDRN) has recently undertaken a review of the UK research and policy landscape for cross-cutting sustainability research covering the issue of research funding, the institutional context for professional learning and careers, as well as capabilities for policy and innovations. IA Tools Applied to Impact Assessment of EU Policies in Agriculture and Environment
Date:
13/02/2013
Excerpt:
This paper by B. Manos, Th. Bournaris, Ch. Moulogianni and S. Arampatzis aims to provide a review of the IA tools applied for the assessment of the EU policies in agriculture and environment, to analyse and to classify them by different criteria according to the policy that they have been applied to and by the impacts that they have been measured. 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on "Sustainable Development: Which Transition for Our Societies?"
Date:
31/01/2013
Excerpt:
The overarching theme of the symposium is to analyze how the concept of transition ties in with the notion of sustainable development.