Sustainable Development, impact assessment, green growth, Policy Assessment, Energy Policy

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.
training

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.
training

33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA): "The Next Generation"

Date: 
13/05/2013
Excerpt: 
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. ...
events

PhD Position: Towards a Science of Assessment Making

Date: 
28/02/2013
Excerpt: 
The group "Assessments and Scientific Policy Advice" (ASP) at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) Berlin, Germany is seeking a highly talented and motivated PhD student interested in working in an interdisciplinary environment that explores uncharted, policy-relevant scientific territory. ...
funding

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.
publications

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.
events

OECD Discloses Impact Assessment Studies

Date: 
17/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The OECD has just disclosed the results of two studies on impact assessments that have been conducted by the Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) at FU Berlin.
news

Policy Relevant Sustainability Research

Date: 
10/01/2013
Excerpt: 
The publication "Policy Relevant Sustainability Research" guides various kinds of interested parties by providing detailed actor-specific requirement profiles for policy relevant sustainability research that aims to bridge specific knowledge to bear on policy issues relating to sustainable development.
publications