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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. 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. ... Science for Environmental Policies: Choosing between Established and Innovative Policy Measures
Date:
25/04/2013
Excerpt:
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. ... 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
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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
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The overarching theme of the symposium is to analyze how the concept of transition ties in with the notion of sustainable development. 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. 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. 2013 CCES Winter School on "Science Meets Practice"
Date:
07/01/2013
Excerpt:
How can scientists lead a true dialogue with people and institutions outside the scientific community? This is the topic of the CCES Winter School "Science Meets Practice", which will be held on 7-10 January and 4-7 February, 2013. The School supports exchange efforts and enhances capability to create interactions beyond scientific boundaries.