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Following is a list of IAIA20 Annual Conference paper & presentation abstracts.
Presenting Author: Henry Aryeetey
Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
Summary Statement: The impact assessment procedures of US Foreign assistance projects includes Climate risk management (CRM) - the process of assessing, addressing and adaptively managing climate risks.
Presenting Author: Seth Cain
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: Putting federal-provincial cooperation in impact assessment into practice in Canada: tools, approach and case studies.
Presenting Author: Maria Walentek
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Geospatial technologies and information collected during the EIA process could be used to inform and keep the IUCN Red List database up to date as showcased by the Trapa colchica surveys.
Presenting Author: Meelan Thondoo
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: The importance of using stakeholder engagement data in building HIA frameworks cannot be undermined. Our study presents the opportunities and challenges for stakeholder engagement in Africa.
Presenting Author: Nneka Okereke
Preferred Session: New directions in livelihood restoration in project design and beyond
Summary Statement: The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management project sought to ensure livelihood restoration by making it a separate component of the project with its own funds, management and indicators
Presenting Author: Patricia Gutierrez
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: From 2010, both the SEA and the regional plans were implemented, which presented changes especially in the regulatory framework, which intersects with different approaches at national level.
Presenting Author: Meghan Egleton
Preferred Session: A radical approach: IA should start with implementable mitigation measures
Summary Statement: N/A - Panel Session
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Preferred Session: Scaling out, not up! Improve IA efficiency via collaboration and dataficati
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Presenting Author: GENOVEVA RAZETO CACERES
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: This document states if the environmental conflict is resolved by changing the governance model in a way that binding citizen participation is incorporated.
Presenting Author: Giulia Carbone
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: A system for biodiversity risk screening at the early stage of the development of solar and wind projects.
Presenting Author: William Amelorku
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: The deployment of the applications of GIS and remote sensing as a tool in Impact Assessment is saving practitioners time and cost, especially, in large linear project spanning various region
Presenting Author: Ben Harris-Roxas
Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
Summary Statement: The paper describes a recently developed climate change vulnerability health impact assessment (CCVHIA) framework that includes five areas of assessment.
Presenting Author: Keisuke GOTO
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: The study suggests an implementation method of biodiversity offsets for countries seeking to introduce the system through examining airport development projects conducted in four countries.
Presenting Author: Shakil Ferdausi
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Comparative analysis of EIA Systems adopted by selected Caribbean countries to understand differences in roles and responsibilities of project proponents, authorities, and community’s consul
Presenting Author: Jacques Demajorovic
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Results of a SIA undertaken in the Amazonian region on the world greatest iron mine are showed to compare perceptions of the social impacts between the company and community views.
Presenting Author: Iain Lednor
Preferred Session: Opportunities and challenges for early career IA practitioners and research
Summary Statement: The challenges of an early career consultant striving to bridge the gap between pure ecology whilst meeting regulatory requirements, lender compliance etc in Albania and Cote D’Ivoire
Presenting Author: Kirsten Day
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Towards recognising the increasing inevitability of conflict in EIA, cultural theory is applied to a case in South Africa to better explain competing constructions of natural resources.
Presenting Author: Stephen Edwards
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: We propose a systematic framework to facilitate the post-disaster collection and analysis of essential data and information related to social and environmental impacts from disasters.
Presenting Author: Claudine Roos
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Paper proposing a framework for evaluating benefits of EIA to different stakeholders
Presenting Author: Osvaldo Gratacos
Preferred Session: IFIs and adoption of lessons learned through their accountability functions
Summary Statement: CAO and IFC representatives will discuss how lessons learnt through the handling of environmental and social complaints have contributed to raising awareness of specific issues related to as
Presenting Author: Dominik Dietler
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: A review shed light on the intransparency and the negligence of health in the impact assessment process. To unfold its full potential health needs to be understood more holistically.
Presenting Author: Raogo Hyacinthe ZABRE
Preferred Session: Economic impact assessment
Summary Statement: Findings of a systematic scoping review reveal that economic impact assessments are rarely conducted in the context of large infrastructure projects, which holds particularly true for Africa
Presenting Author: Daniel Marsh
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: An exploration of conditions that favour creation of epistemic trust and its application to impact assessment expected to assist in mediation of conflict.
Presenting Author: Sara Bice
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: When project financing, politics or numbers consistently take precedence, what can be done? Some Aussies are now co-designing frameworks and standards. And it’s working!
Presenting Author: KYUNGIL LEE
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: This study derives the status of ecological damage by using pre-established spatial & thematic data such as land cover map to suggest a methodology for constructing Data Base by type of dama
Presenting Author: Renata Martins Pacheco
Preferred Session: Economic impact assessment
Summary Statement: This systematic review aims to identify the main wildfire impacts in Portugal to help in valuing the environmental damages and in better directing fire management actions.
Presenting Author: Elaine McCall
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: Scotland’s unique approach to Strategic Environmental Assessment and the role of Scottish Government in-house specialists in supporting consistent and proportionate assessment processes.
Presenting Author: Stéphanie Eveno
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: Assessment of the Status of Aboriginal Knowledge in the Environmental Follow-Up Studies Conducted by Hydro-Québec at the La Grande Complex (hydroelectric projects)
Presenting Author: Janis Shandro
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: This presentation provides an over-view of several case studies. The need for greater accountability and transparency for impacts is discussed.
Presenting Author: Emdad HAQUE
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: A comprehensive disaster risk assessment framework consists of hazard dimension, vulnerability, and community evaluation - with examples from coastal Bangladesh - is proposed.
Presenting Author: Michael Gerrard
Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: A new book, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the U.S., makes more than 1500 recommendations. This talk will discuss how these can be used in implementing New York’s new climate law.
Presenting Author: Emmanuel Kasimbazi
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: This paper examines the role of NGOs in the ESIA process particularly in scoping, baseline data collection, review of reports and monitoring of Oil and Gas Projects in Uganda
Presenting Author: John Sinclair
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: In this presentation I offer ten key principles of meaningful participation that if adopted as a package could help us to achieve the next generation of participation in IA.
Presenting Author: Rajib Biswal
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Next generation community-based environmental assessment is community driven that intends to capture a local vision of sustainability to steer decision-making towards sustainable solutions.
Presenting Author: Robert Montgomery
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Various approaches and examples of adaptive EHS management in infrastructure projects from international infrastructure projects are presented, and an decision making process.
Presenting Author: Mark Kunzer
Preferred Session: Building sustainable project pipelines in infrastructure finance
Summary Statement: ADB's ex ante framework drives it's project selection and screening to ensure sustainability in its infrastructure portfolio
Presenting Author: Vicente Gonzalez López
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: The ecosystem services approach brings us the opportunity to incorporate a new vision for residual impact that could help to improve the additionality concept.
Presenting Author: Jessica Hughes
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: The success of biodiversity offset implementation in South Africa is undermined by governance failures that could be avoided through improved data management and regulatory compliance
Presenting Author: Mihai Coroi
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: Review of habitat fragmentation and connectivity in UK and international EIAs. UK project case study involving a quantitative assessment of fragmentation and connectivity.
Presenting Author: Piedad Martín-Olmedo
Preferred Session: Smartening health and well-being in IA: From policies to projects
Summary Statement: How can a smart consideration of human health meet the requirements of the EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive? We present a new reference document for health in EIA.
Presenting Author: Jennifer Campbell
Preferred Session: Implementing UNDRIP into IA for better decisions
Summary Statement: From our experience as Environmental Assessment practitioners in British Columbia, we present 10 tips for operationalizing UNDRIP in Environmental Assessment
Presenting Author: Verónica Giberti
Preferred Session: SEA (TBD)
Summary Statement: Knowing the complexity of the system and its emerging, from a landscape view through time, will allow us to identify effective and efficient solutions.
Presenting Author: Guillermo Castaño
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Lets talk benefits: the Cañafisto and Soto Norte projects IA propose innovative solutions to historical territory conflicts.
Presenting Author: IÑIGO DE MIGUEL BERIAIN
Preferred Session: Technology assessment of artificial intelligence
Summary Statement: AI in health care involves relevant ethical and legal issues. This contribution is aimed at exploring them and proposing some alternative solutions that optimize the future scenario
Presenting Author: Amy Sexton
Preferred Session: Emerging issues in ESG risk management
Summary Statement: Amy Sexton is an independent social performance consultant based in Berlin, with a focus on ESIA development, due diligence and monitoring of natural resources projects.
Presenting Author: Matthew Baird
Preferred Session: Using open EIA reporting to drive accountable and transparent governance
Summary Statement: Access to information forms a key precondition for meaningful public participation in EIA and effective construction, operation and management of major projects. This paper will examine the
Presenting Author: LIZHI XIE
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: An effective connection between EIA and PDP will form a whole-life cycle management model of projects,achieve the return of corporate main responsibility to promote environmental protection.
Presenting Author: WORAWUT HAMARN
Preferred Session: How does EIA influence decision making in the oil and gas sector?
Summary Statement: Inclusive technique by integration of MCA and BPEO, lesson learned from Thailand, is verified as an effective tool for decision making of preliminary natural gas transmission pipeline route.
Presenting Author: SANG CHUL HWANG
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: In this study the dam operation based on selective middle-layer discharge from the time of concentrated rainfall was the most effective for water quality management.
Presenting Author: Tomoya MARUYAMA
Preferred Session: What is the real extent of social impacts of renewable energy projects?
Summary Statement: This paper discusses to establish the estimation method of the heat demand of local community unit for introducing unitsmall sized woody biomass facilities for thermal energy (SSWBFTE).
Presenting Author: Quan Tjon-Akon
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: The Oil Sector in Suriname provides a good challenge to test the concept of SEA for Suriname and this needs to be explored through consultation, cooperation and pilots.
Presenting Author: Siang Choon Foo
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: As a mega project approaching completion, it is crucial to manage the demobilisation workers from site to avoid negative impacts before it occur.
Presenting Author: Kiichiro Hayashi
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: The applicability of Integrating modeling tool, k.LAB under ARIES to EIA is discussed.
Presenting Author: chen aizhong
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: EIA approval Information system is convenient for enterprises to apply for EIA permit and improve work efficiency
Presenting Author: Bruce White
Preferred Session: Reconciliation and conflict transformation using impact assessment
Summary Statement: This paper investigates to what extent the efficiency and effectiveness of impact assessment can benefit from identity-based knowledge and practice.
Presenting Author: Hanna Kalliolevo
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: Offsets may move nature far from the original site. We studied the spatial redistribution of nature and its implications to local people especially in urban areas.
Presenting Author: Margaret Gowen Larsen
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: This presentation will explore the challenges of articulating cultural significance within the competing priorities of EIA and will assess the need for supplementary technical impact studies
Presenting Author: SOPHORN SEK
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: The session covers state of human rights recognition and how the state mechanism applies the HR instruments and how other actors including social workers and the displaced work together
Presenting Author: GISELA MELLO
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: The public consultation is part of the implementation process for new infrastructure energy projects in Brazil. Based on consultation sheets this paper summarizes the main questions raised b
Presenting Author: Lauren Arnold
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: This talk will describe the issue of social cumulative impacts, its relevance to Indigenous peoples, and the challenges and opportunities for management in the Canadian context
Presenting Author: Lucy Waruingi
Preferred Session: Impact assessment of large-scale linear infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: In-sights into the efficacy of the application of environmental assessment methods and procedures in practice into significant corridor developments in Kenya
Presenting Author: Mark Cliffe-Phillips
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: The impact assessment process in the Northwest Territories is a holistic approach rooted in indigenous values and ways of knowing and this paper gives practical examples from recent IA's.
Presenting Author: Juliana Siqueira-Gay
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: A review of four ESIAs of mining projects attending IFC standards to gauge how cumulative impacts on native vegetation are addressed found that regional landscape analysis is overlooked
Presenting Author: Tracey Hooper
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: Overview of the challenges faced and approach to preparing an ESIA for past road works where impacts have occurred and a further ESIA for the same road, for future works that are undefined
Presenting Author: Fernando Pardo
Preferred Session: Integrating human rights into ESHIA of agro, forestry, and fisheries projec
Summary Statement: This presentation describes a sector-wide impact assessment (SWIA) of the aquaculture industry in Chile, starting with the methodology, followed by the findings and recommendations.
Presenting Author: Charla Patterson
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: This project assesses the inclusion of ecological connectivity within the EA process, identifies and characterizes existing performance gaps, and highlights an urgent need for improvement.
Presenting Author: Pawitra Jumpasak
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Water risk and its implication to oil and gas operation in Thailand’s eastern region was assessed to efficiently manage potential impacts from water stress and to ensure sustainable supply.
Presenting Author: Geetha Ramesh
Preferred Session: Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Effective engagement with Indigenous community helped interpret traditional knowledge which played a key role in drafting biomonitoring plans and selecting receptors for bioaccumulation assessment and the analysis of country food.
Presenting Author: Jan Bitter
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and new mobility systems
Summary Statement: The sustainability of multifilament-wound carbon fiber reinforced composite high-pressure vessels for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles is assessed to uncover potentials for sustainable mobility.
Presenting Author: Marie-Andrée Burelle
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: Hydro-Québec developed a method for assessing psychosocial impacts as part of its general method of environmental impact assessments. We will present this method and approach that led to it.
Presenting Author: Audrius Sabūnas
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: This study aims to cover and emphasize the cultural impacts that climate change may have on island nations in Oceania.
Presenting Author: Pete Gabriel
Preferred Session: Smartening E&S skills in international finance
Summary Statement: Session focused on the future of educating E&S professionals in international finance, focusing on technological innovation, responsibilities for teaching, and timing of targeted learning.
Presenting Author: Le Win Khine
Preferred Session: Using open EIA reporting to drive accountable and transparent governance
Summary Statement: Myanmar leads the way in Southeast Asia, through the EITI and the Open Development Myanmar platform to bring to “light” EIAs.
Presenting Author: Pam Ellen Hudson
Preferred Session: The 50th Anniversary of NEPA: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges
Summary Statement: This text will be included online and in the mobile app to summarize your presentation for attendees. • The important role of U.S. federal courts in the evolution of the NEPA over time will be addressed, including a summary of influential decisions, several issued by the Supreme Court.
Presenting Author: ARTURO FARIAS
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: Este documento expone, si el conflicto ambiental se resuelve cambiando el modelo de gobernanza de manera que se incorpore la participación ciudadana vinculante.
Presenting Author: Jo Treweek
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: Sustaining biodiversity depends critically on landscape connectivity but it is poorly addressed in EIA. Practical experiences and challenges will be reviewed and success factors identified.
Presenting Author: Virginia del Río
Preferred Session: Beginning with the end in mind
Summary Statement: Europe requires a new way of mining from the cradle (exploration) to the grave (mining closure) based on the approach of territorial development of mining areas from endogenous resources
Presenting Author: Marco Aurélio Dos Santos
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: The article will show the possibilities of benefit sharing between hydroelectric plants and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon. Some suggestions for instruments to be adopted will be pr
Presenting Author: Dolores Koenig
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: This paper discusses strategies for sharing the benefits of infrastructure development with the displaced in urban areas, where activism has been key in increasing compensation and benefits.
Presenting Author: Jung Hee Hyun
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Develop a planning model that can determine a pareto of optimal plans to maximize the multi-sector benefits including grey and green technologies scale by using an optimization approach.
Presenting Author: Aida Khalil Gomez
Preferred Session: Strategic Planning for Hydropower with Environmental and Social Values
Summary Statement: This paper/presentation provides an overview of the strategic planning benefits for the private sector development of hydropower projects, and challenges in its absence.
Presenting Author: Edward Ontita
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: This paper delves into the governance of benefits sharing structures in the energy sector in Kenya. The structures are skewed against affected community members and require improvement.
Presenting Author: Celia Cáceres
Preferred Session: General best practice principles for impact assessment
Summary Statement: We present the main advances in the application of the principles of environmental impact assessment proposed by the IAIA to the Peruvian context and the opportunities to improve.
Presenting Author: Olga Skotareva
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: How to reconcile requirements of national regulations and expectations of international lenders when restoring livelihoods? Let’s explore challenges and practical solutions.
Presenting Author: Rebecca Thomas
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Showcase of practical and meaningful initiatives stemming from the EIA process–driven by the developer, the practitioner and stakeholders working together for the benefit of the environment.
Presenting Author: Luis Sánchez
Preferred Session: Exploring the need to shake up biodiversity offset theory and application
Summary Statement: Regional landscape analysis of offsets implemented in a mine project shows the contribution of jointly considering connectivity alongside biodiversity metrics.
Presenting Author: Joseph Akpokodje
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: The presence of Hippos in the DKIS Area is a major threat to the success of the World Bank Assisted Irrigation Project. This paper is on ensuring hippos and the project coexist.
Presenting Author: Pablo Cardinale
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guideline for wildlife-friendly renewable energies
Summary Statement: International Finance Corporation (IFC) discusses projects showcasing how it is walking-the-talk to meet PS6 in Hydroelectric Power development and financing.
Presenting Author: KATIA GARCIA
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: Biodiversity Measurement Approaches and the incorporation of biodiversity issues in the Long Term Planning in the Eletricity Sector in Brazil
Presenting Author: Wolfgang Wende
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: This presentation offers insights into current debates on biodiversity offsets policies at the EU level, with outlining theoretical/practical principles and the latest political development.
Presenting Author: Cecilia Amosso
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: An innovative approach to calculate residual biodiversity losses and gains generated by offsets. Particularly useful to evaluate multiple key biodiversity features and linear infrastructures
Presenting Author: George Ledec
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: The World Bank has substantial experience with making infrastructure more biodiversity-friendly, through application of strict standards to project planning, construction, and operation.
Presenting Author: Miguel Aleman
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Monitoring of bioindicator species is important to detect changes in biotic communities early and manage the risks to biodiversity in a timely manner.
Presenting Author: Rebecca Hall
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: What bird species are assessed cumulatively at offshore windfarms? A wide range of species should be assessed for a consistent strategic approach to ensure cumulative impacts aren’t missed.
Presenting Author: Luciana Paz
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: This article will present good practices from indigenous programs implemented by a Brazilian electric energy company and its subsidiaries.
Presenting Author: Marianne Schuerhoff
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: We present lessons from the SEA and proposed monitoring of the ‘Haven Stad’ plan in Amsterdam, that aims to build 40.000-70.000 dwellings in an industrial area.
Presenting Author: Anna Lyons
Preferred Session: Assessing significance: Practical lessons from global IA projects
Summary Statement: This paper will provide practical guidance and effective approaches for civil society to work together with companies and government to ensure the best project outcomes for nature and people
Presenting Author: Sophie Grinnell
Preferred Session: New learning approaches for HIA capacity strengthening
Summary Statement: This presentation will provide an overview of the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment’s HIA capacity building approaches and describe challenges, lessons learned, and opport
Presenting Author: Lasse Peltonen
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Socially robust knowledge is needed to withstand the shocks of environmental conflict
Presenting Author: Chaunjit Chanchitpricha
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: This paper considers tiering from SEA to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) given there may be opportunities to build more effective practice for IA in the Thai context.
Presenting Author: Miguel Mascarenhas
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: A case study in the NE of Brazil where a strategic approach was taken to value present practices and decision-making on the EIA process
Presenting Author: Scott Sellwood
Preferred Session: Listening with technology: deepening the impact of impact assessments
Summary Statement: To improve rights holders engagement and community awareness in Uganda Oxfam worked with scientists and videographers to analyse and illustrate the impacts of a major oil project
Presenting Author: Christina Newport
Preferred Session: Governance improvements in Pacific Island impact assessment
Summary Statement: We critically examine the state of IA regulation and capacity in the Cook Islands, in the face of proposed deep-sea mining, commercial fishing, and other economic initiatives
Presenting Author: Stephen Hazell
Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: Canada enacted a new impact assessment law in 2019 that helps to ensure that climate impacts of major projects are assessed and reflected in federal decision-making.
Presenting Author: Bill Ross
Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
Summary Statement: How Canadian panel reports get converted into project decisions. Emphasise on what is realistic in mitigation measures proposed or enforceability, and the critical importance of writing ef
Presenting Author: ASHA RAJVANSHI
Preferred Session: Capacity enhancement: Building human capital for promoting natural capital
Summary Statement: This paper shares the experience of enhancing SEA capacity in India and its positive influences on EA practice and reforms in national policies and legislations.
Presenting Author: Vinod B Mathur
Preferred Session: Capacity enhancement: Building human capital for promoting natural capital
Summary Statement: This paper shares the positive influence of capacity building efforts as amply reflected in improved design and implementation of greener transport infrastructure under ADB projects
Presenting Author: Cassiophiea Madid
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Integrating community involvement in the EA process for a meaningful engagement and socially acceptable results: Case studies in the Philippines.
Presenting Author: Banak Gamui
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Capacity building needs to provide individuals, communities and organizations with the skills, knowledge and information for undertaking the wide range of tasks required for conserving biodi
Presenting Author: Mark King
Preferred Session: Augmenting IA capacity building: Delivering for SDGs and ESG capability
Summary Statement: Mark King - Earth Active CEO and formerly World Bank – reflects on the importance capacity building has and continues to play in driving effective ESG within FI & national institutions.
Presenting Author: Pendrigh Lui
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: Conflict Security Risk and Impact Assessment is an integral part of planning resettlement in the Porgera valley, where land is customarily owned and tribal fighting is a cultural norm.
Presenting Author: Christina Guillemette
Preferred Session: Implementing FPIC through the IA processes
Summary Statement: Indigenous self-determination and well-being were valued components in the assessment of an existing hydroelectric facility integrating traditional and scientific knowledge in considerations
Presenting Author: Jorim Schraven
Preferred Session: EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan: key aspects for IFIs and IA practitioners
Summary Statement: This presentation will showcase FMO’s approach to ensuring sustainability impact of their activities, alongside views on the practical implications of the EU and international developments.
Presenting Author: Adeline Serckx
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: We review the key changes made in the updated IFC GN6, and discuss the potential unforeseen challenges applying the revised Critical Habitat criteria to early stages of development projects.
Presenting Author: Julia Hagoria
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: Case studies from the PNG LNG project will be used to illustrate the gaps of managing cultural heritage requirements in the PNG Regulatory Framework.
Presenting Author: Stéphane Voisin
Preferred Session: Best practices in implementing sustainable finance
Summary Statement: The complex nature of systemic risks, ranging from climate change to lack of transparency, makes it difficult to mainstream sustainability in the financial sector. How to move forward?
Presenting Author: JUAN CARLOS PAEZ
Preferred Session: Impactos acumulativos en Iberoamerica: lecciones aprendidas (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement: The panel will bring experiences of CIA in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Presenting Author: Cristiano Vilardo
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: Brazil struggles to find a balance between a simple consultation and a more structured EA to guide oil and gas planning. Recent political changes jeopardize 15 years of evolution.
Presenting Author: Yi Su
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: China's EIA organizations explored a new way of diversified and sustainable development by providing "Environmental Stewardship" service to governments, parks and enterprises.
Presenting Author: Nicola Faulks
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: Citizen science is very popular in the UK, but can it ever be used to inform Biodiversity Impact Assessments for commercial projects?
Presenting Author: Alessandra Benevides
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: Analysis of Public Civil Lawsuits promoted in Brazil, between 2000 and 2019, related to resettlement processes and their consequences in the creation of compensational references.
Presenting Author: Simone Miraglia
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Sao Paulo’s GHG emissions is significantly correlated with respiratory (p = 0,00019) and cardiovascular (p = 0,00157) mortality rates. The results endorse the role of its economic activities
Presenting Author: Eunjeong Lee
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: This study was carried out simulating 1km grid based rice yields in Korea under RCP Scenarios using the DSSAT v4.7.5.
Presenting Author: Eunjeong Lee
Preferred Session: Value impact in global food chain governance
Summary Statement: This study was carried out simulating 1km grid based rice yields in Korea under RCP Scenarios using the DSSAT v4.7.5.
Presenting Author: Richard Morgan
Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: Emerging legislation in NZ has strong risk assessment focus, to little IA recognition.
Presenting Author: Daniela Debone
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: The multivariate regression approach identified a model that may contribute to public policies improvement, in terms of accelerating the decarbonization of the economy for São Paulo, Brazil
Presenting Author: Hyeyun Ku
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: An overall process supporting the coastal management plan for adopting or mitigating negative impacts from sea-level rise in South Korea
Presenting Author: Shaun Meredith
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: A rare opportunity exists in Australia to align environmental data collection/curation alongside digitisation of EIA in overlapping jurisdictions. Barriers and key learnings are discussed.
Presenting Author: Ted Gullison
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: Common challenges facing the development of biodiversity baseline studies in Latin America are reviewed as well ways these challenges can be overcome.
Presenting Author: Bryan Jenkins
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: The paper describes the collaborative approach in Canterbury NZ to integrate community and indigenous views into the regional water management strategy using discursive democracy principles.
Presenting Author: Wayne Huggins
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Community-Based Governance in informal settlements is often seen as essential for sustainable urban development. However, it can undermine public sector institutions and lead to failures in
Presenting Author: Mike Brophy
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: A community consent-based process for disposal of radioactive waste provides the opportunity for communities to co-create with the developer in environmental and socio-economic asessments
Presenting Author: Tanapon Phenrat
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: Community-driven impact assessment (using community map and IEUBK modeling) yields more accurate answers for cleanup of Pb-contaminated creek than the expert judgement system.
Presenting Author: Raphael Mubanga
Preferred Session: General best practice principles for impact assessment
Summary Statement: This study compares the quality of EIA Legislation of South Africa and Zambia, with emphasis on the depth of impact analysis
Presenting Author: Berit Balfors
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: This paper highlights the need for designing an SEA process that better support the national transport planning regarding the achievement of the transport policy goals and Agenda 2030.
Presenting Author: Guoqing SHI
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: The forthcoming intensive and large-scale hydropower development in China indicates that a large number of rural resettlers are unavoidable. How to compensate and resettle rural resettlers
Presenting Author: Laura Verdier
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: French Development Agency (AFD) case study: To ensure trust and respect of environmental and social standards, the AFD offers communities the ability to reach out to its Complaints Mechanism
Presenting Author: Kin Che Lam
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: Presentation examines the potentials and constraints of China comprehensive strategic planning system in addressing the country's sustainability problems.
Presenting Author: Grigore Stratulat
Preferred Session: Participation and grievance resolution in involuntary resettlement
Summary Statement: This paper examines computerization of two resettlement operations – one in Malawi and one in Moldova – and how best to implement computerization.
Presenting Author: Tokunbo Olorundami
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: This paper explores the meaning of context by evaluating the interaction of the formal and informal actors as a basis for a more inclusive EIA approach for greater effectiveness in Nigeria.
Presenting Author: Sangyun Lee
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: The Korean government should take more responsibility to engage conflict management.
Presenting Author: Gino Araya
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Se analiza la distribución de los conflictos socio-ambientales, los episodios de alerta ambiental ocurridos en Chile y su relación con instalaciones sin licencia ambiental
Presenting Author: F. Javier Martín Herrero
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: Summary of the Spanish approach to link EIA Directive and WFD Directive, including in the EIA the effects of the projects on the achievement of the environmental objectives.
Presenting Author: Cássio Ingles de Sousa
Preferred Session: Indigenous Peoples
Summary Statement: The presentation discuss strategies to reinforce principles of participation, previous consultation and communication with Indigenous communities at IA studies, such as methodological design
Presenting Author: Lèneke Pfeiffer
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: New ways of assessing reciprocal learning are needed to improve the process of inclusiveness and joint knowledge generation in context based learning.
Presenting Author: Juliane Biehl
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: The contribution explores how German & Swedish polycentric governance approaches reconcile wind energy & species conservation, i.e. how does either country create space for wind & wildlife?
Presenting Author: • Margaret Luker
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: • Mikisew Cree First Nation and TECK Resources share some of the successes and challenges discovered through impact assessment and project application in a complex location in order to ensure Mikisew’s livelihood could be sustained if the project is approved.
Presenting Author: Kevin McCall
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: A showcase of low-cost technologies that enable citizen-driven impact identification in crisis and disaster situations, drawing on the Haitian experience.
Presenting Author: Martin Haefele
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: This paper examines the importance of applying cumulative effects assessment to small projects, the challenges of doing so, and a few avenues for overcoming these challenges.
Presenting Author: Pedro Koehler
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: This talk will present a cumulative impact assessment process developed under the offshore oil production environmental licensing in Brazil, and discuss the innovative results obtained.
Presenting Author: Ivan Carlos Maglio
Preferred Session: Impactos acumulativos en Iberoamerica: lecciones aprendidas (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement: Cumulative impact assessment remains a major practice challenge in environmental assessment. The tool is not commonly part of the legal and institutional framework in iberoamerica and there
Presenting Author: Ian Bryson
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: An exploration of Papua New Guinea's petroleum sector benefit sharing regime and how lessons can potentially be applied in other sectors and jurisdictions.
Presenting Author: Cuyler Cotton
Preferred Session: Reconciliation and conflict transformation using impact assessment
Summary Statement: As a historian, specializing in the history of colonization, Cuyler has advised several Indigenous Nations on decolonizing governance and developing political strategies for successful negot
Presenting Author: Atsushi Hamamoto
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: This presenation focus on funds for reservoir area development asas a measure of benefit-sharing in Japan.
Presenting Author: Alla Morrison
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: This report explores how firms can use data innovation to strengthen their relationships with communities.
Presenting Author: Sarah Edwards
Preferred Session: Scaling out, not up! Improve IA efficiency via collaboration and dataficati
Summary Statement: Importance of data sharing and collaboration in tackling key consenting challenges associated with the scaling up of offshore wind farm developments.
Presenting Author: Laurens Reumers
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: This study combines stakeholder input, datasets and scientific literature to estimate health and other impacts that come from initiatives from civil society in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
Presenting Author: Liz ALDEN WILY
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: Compulsory acquisition is examined in the context to rising legal recognition of majority customary lands as lawful property in Africa, with focused study on three states.
Presenting Author: Peter-John Meynell
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Developing a systematic framework for defining and mapping the ecological importance of rivers in South East Asia, identifying high value reaches of rivers for protection or management of im
Presenting Author: Asahi ABE
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: This study examines the adoption of a term “No Net Loss” in various sectors through investigating the definition of NNL and the means to achieve NNL utilized by each organization.
Presenting Author: Kate Gannon
Preferred Session: Impact assessment of large-scale linear infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through Development Corridors: A stakeholder perception-based approach to assessing the impact of development corridors in east Africa
Presenting Author: Helle Nedergaard Nielsen
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: Significance is exposed to a series of shortcomings in the current assessment practice. To qualify significance it is suggested, that traditional expert assessments is balanced with local
Presenting Author: Santiago González
Preferred Session: Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: Estado del arte y experiencias en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: El autor hace una recapitulación del Estado del arte en el Desarrollo de un futuro marco normativo de la EIS en España, así como potenciales retos, desafíos y oportunidades.
Presenting Author: Martin Marani
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Effective Environmental Management Plans for sustainable development in the south
Presenting Author: Hyungjun Park
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: The case of the New Town project around Busan Citizen Park provides implications that stakeholders have participated in the design process and established mitigation measures.
Presenting Author: BERTA RODRÍGUEZ
Preferred Session: Evaluación del impacto sobre la Biodiversidad y RN2000 en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: El proyecto recoge los trabajos de desmantelamiento de la presa de La Alberca, así como la restauración del área a su estado natural en un entorno RN2000.
Presenting Author: WEI LI
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: A goal-oriented SEA process is developed based on the three-line environmental policy to integrate environmental management requirements into urban planning.
Presenting Author: Phil Seeto
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Developing legally-binding conditions within a compliance and enforcement program to increase credibility for Canada’s federal environmental assessment.
Presenting Author: Changwan Seo
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Climate change impact and vulnerability assessment system provides essential information for conserving biodiversity such as existing protected areas and future refugia under climate change.
Presenting Author: Young-Il Song
Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
Summary Statement: Development of integrated model for climate change assessment using meta models will be presented
Presenting Author: Sita Rahmani
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Information disclosure is very significant for local communities to educate them about the project’s technology, build solid bases for project acceptance and to mobilize the manpower.
Presenting Author: Takehiko Murayama
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Through stakeholders’ dialogues for mitigation against asbestos contamination, the author will present the outline of discussions with stakeholders including parents as well as challenges fo
Presenting Author: Diana Arbeláez-Ruiz
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: This paper examines the links between dialogue, conflict transformation and regulation in Environmental Impact Studies (EIS) for mining projects in Peru and Latin America.
Presenting Author: Emil Lindblad Kernell
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: Tech companies are called on to assess their human rights impacts. We look at how rightsholders should be engaged and how their meaningful participation can be ensured.
Presenting Author: Rufus Howard
Preferred Session: Is digital technology necessary for efficiency and effectiveness?
Summary Statement: Using a UK case study of an Offshore Wind Online EIA Evidence Hub, the concept and potential of combining digital EIA, knowledge portals and communities of practice is explored.
Presenting Author: Michele Laflamme
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: How to present multiple project scenarios in a comprehensible interactive way? How to model the impact of a project on climate change? A few examples with a digital taste.
Presenting Author: Artit Teerapatsakul
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Digital environmental information is a key role in effective environmental implementation and monitoring during construction phase in the onshore transmission pipeline projects in Thailand.
Presenting Author: Matthew Hanson
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Creation of habitat baseline mapping on large-scale EIA through a hybrid approach of remote sensing calibrated through field surveys, and national dataset conversions.
Presenting Author: Hugo Woesthuis
Preferred Session: Is digital technology necessary for efficiency and effectiveness?
Summary Statement: This presentation introduces some of the early experiences in working with digital reporting; does this new technology live up to its promises, and what are essential success factors?
Presenting Author: Rob Evans
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Use of digital technologies to understand large mammal ecology in a National Park located adjacent to a new internationally financed road.
Presenting Author: Cameron Orr
Preferred Session: Smartening E&S skills in international finance
Summary Statement: Maturing our digital approach to the components of ESIA will transform how we engage stakeholders in the future.
Presenting Author: Ivar Lyhne
Preferred Session: Is digital technology necessary for efficiency and effectiveness?
Summary Statement: Major potentials of digitalization in IA can only be achieved, if a range of stakeholders in society joins forces to enable a system change. Experiences from Denmark are outlined.
Presenting Author: Tom Hatton
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: How Western Australia is harnessing digital technology to streamline EIA and develop a cumulative impact and decision-making framework to support complex environmental assessment.
Presenting Author: Ross Stewart
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: Our critique of the IA workflow highlights persistent shortcomings and identifies key improvement themes for realising a fully digitized, holistic and intelligently linked approach to IA.
Presenting Author: Ascanio D'Andrea
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: The speaker will discuss the revised Guidance for impact assessments at World Heritage Properties
Presenting Author: Lloyd Lipsett
Preferred Session: Integrating human rights into ESHIA of agro, forestry, and fisheries projec
Summary Statement: Exploration of the additional focus areas that human rights assessments brought to the assessment and management of environmental and social impacts for agro and forestry companies..
Presenting Author: Snowy Makhudu
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: The South African journey towards enhancing IA professionalism. A recap of the history, vision, mission and outcome goals of EAPASA, focusing on achievements since appointment in 2018.
Presenting Author: Alistair Clark
Preferred Session: Advancements in environmental and social policies of the European IFIs
Summary Statement: The Environmental and Social Policy guides EBRD’s commitment to promoting “environmentally sound and sustainable development”. The 2019 update reflects lessons learnt and emerging E&S issues
Presenting Author: Mårten Karlsson
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: Current practice and future challenges related to an increased use of connectivity modelling in Swedish physical planning.
Presenting Author: Sangbum Lee
Preferred Session: EIA
Summary Statement: the guideline of the night-time insect field survey is suggested to insure the consistency among the night-time field surveys of EIA and Post-EIA monitoring cases
Presenting Author: Alla Sushko
Preferred Session: Economic impact assessment
Summary Statement: The purpose of this research is to evaluate the economic impacts of hotels efforts to embed sustainability into their operations
Presenting Author: Galina Williams
Preferred Session: Economic impact assessment
Summary Statement: This paper contributes to the economic impact assessment literature by adding the econometric analysis of coal mining economic impacts across smaller scale regions over business cycle.
Presenting Author: Jeanne Ellis
Preferred Session: Local content development: Advances in approaches, tools, and governance
Summary Statement: This presentation will focus on the process of designing, implementing and measuring local content programs, and how this may be better integrated into impact assessment and management.
Presenting Author: Sanjay Agarwal
Preferred Session: Participation and grievance resolution in involuntary resettlement
Summary Statement: This paper summarizes the experience with grievance redress mechanisms from World Bank-financed operations in different governance contexts.
Presenting Author: Felix Sternath
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: SEA of Austria’s high level transport infrastructure network is surprisingly strategic, open-ended and effective. The paper highlights the factors of success and provides general principles.
Presenting Author: Lone Kørnøv
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: Effectiveness of voluntary SEA is under-explored, although often noteworthy. Experiences from large-scale developer’ voluntary SEA on their geothermal energy development are presented.
Presenting Author: Anna Francis Olsson
Preferred Session: Capacity enhancement: Building human capital for promoting natural capital
Summary Statement: What results, beyond individual skills, can we expect from a SEA capacity development program in 12 countries including 350 people? We share lessons and experiences from this program.
Presenting Author: MIGUEL ABASCAL
Preferred Session: Addressing reprisal risks in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Crítica constructiva en la que se analiza de qué modo, los casi 30 años de experiencia en evaluación de impacto ambiental, han servido para mejorar las metodologías de trabajo.
Presenting Author: Francis Fragano
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: This paper will analyze the evolution and state of practice of Environmental Impact Assessment in Paraguay since the promulgation of its first EIA law and propose some future options.
Presenting Author: WILLIAM WARD
Preferred Session: Using open EIA reporting to drive accountable and transparent governance
Summary Statement: Lao PDR issued a sweeping decree on EIA preparation and review in January, 2019. This presentation will focus on the public participation and review components of Laos’ new law, with an eye
Presenting Author: Ximena Herbas Ramirez
Preferred Session: Effectiveness of the EIA of transport in the dawn of Anthropocene
Summary Statement: Using 2 major transport projects as case studies, we explore the main opportunities and challenges of the EIA tool for effective impact evaluation and mitigation under the WB’s ESF.
Presenting Author: Rosa Arce-Ruiz
Preferred Session: Effectiveness of the EIA of transport in the dawn of Anthropocene
Summary Statement: The aim is to compare how EIA is experienced and perceived by professionals in three European countries (Italy, Portugal, and Spain), offering insights into EIA process-related barriers
Presenting Author: Jean Hugé
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Using EIA to mainstream biodiversity in projetcs and policies impacting the DR Congo's biodiversity hotspots is promising, and is met with little resistance, yet the practice lags behind.
Presenting Author: Miguel Ángel Casermeiro
Preferred Session: Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: Estado del arte y experiencias en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Existe un consenso sobre la necesidad de introducir criterios sanitarios en las evaluaciones ambientales aunque no está claro que procedimientos administrativo usar
Presenting Author: Denise Simmons
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: This study assesses the extent to which decision making occurs in EIAs in Guyana focusing on the period 2008 to 2018 and three categories of projects – mining, forestry and infrastructure.
Presenting Author: Katri Lisitzin
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: The integration of nature-culture linkages within existing impact assessment frameworks (HIA/SEA/EIA) has potentials to build new synergies and strengthen the impact assessment effectiveness
Presenting Author: Edgar Buhanga
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Managing impacts of petroleum in National parks a challenge but measures to enforce compliance are in place. This paper shares the experience of managing impacts in Parks
Presenting Author: Maria Jose Carreras
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: The presentation draws on the DGM Saweto project as a case study of community participation in impact assessments, and how the results can contribute towards sustainable management.
Presenting Author: Emelda Adii
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Deliberate targeting women in the governance structure system in Northern Ghana is a precursor for improving the environmental and social performance of infrastructure Project; the Tono exam
Presenting Author: Dr Tara Muthoora
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: Understanding how health is considered in policy, plan, programme & project level spatial planning in England.
Presenting Author: Primas Kapi
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Biodiversity conservation awareness, rural livelihoods, capacity building and partnership contribute to the protection of the Lake Kutubu Wildlife Management Area
Presenting Author: Louisa Cheung
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Case studies will be presented to illustrate how recent advancement in technology has opened up new ways in mitigating and monitoring environmental impacts in infrastructure projects in Hong Kong.
Presenting Author: Francesc Beni
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Approaches and practical examples are presented for improving infrastructure project environmental and social sustainability
Presenting Author: Agness Musutu
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Trends and challenges in ESIA processes in Zambia, and how increased vigilance, pooling of resources through local, national and international partnerships is heightening CSO work in IA
Presenting Author: Elena Bosoni
Preferred Session: New learning approaches for HIA capacity strengthening
Summary Statement: Eni established a capacity building system for the internal Health Professionals on the subject of HIA in order to improve the HIA quality and incorporated HIA system robustness.
Presenting Author: Louw Wildschut
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Case study of the Los Frailes (Aznalcóllar) project with double purpose design solutions: value for the mine and remediation of environmental liabilities. Compliance embedded and assured.
Presenting Author: Ryan Barry
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Examining how community participation in Nunavut’s impact assessment process has improved social acceptance for development and regulatory oversight.
Presenting Author: TOMASINO Michel
Preferred Session: New directions in livelihood restoration in project design and beyond
Summary Statement: Practical examples of livelihood restauration projects where a strong involvement of affected people since design stage led to good sustainability of socioeconomic outcomes
Presenting Author: Nikola Nikačević
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: Presenting our efforts in creating Envigo, a digital expert platform for IA. Discussing questions, findings and challenges we are experiencing on this path.
Presenting Author: Mandy George
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: Lessons learned and opportunities presented by 1) field pilots of an open-source environmental screening tool in humanitarian contexts and 2) integration of geospatial data into the tool.
Presenting Author: Martin Broderick
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: The focus of the study was on NSIPs construction and those strategic impacts and benefits that were unforeseen. The study provided recommendations to better manage NSIPs.
Presenting Author: Tara Higgins
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: The Environmental Sensitivity Mapping (ESM) Webtool is a novel online tool that allows planners to strategically explore environmental sensitivities in Ireland (www.enviromap.ie).
Presenting Author: JATURONG SAENSORN
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Environmental Checklist (EC) is suggested as recommended practice for existing pipeline relocation or rerouting in the same right of way for avoiding project delayed and cost overrun.
Presenting Author: Pablo Baranao
Preferred Session: Strategic Planning for Hydropower with Environmental and Social Values
Summary Statement: The lack of strategic planning in the development of hydropower in Chile, during the last 110 years, have unnecessarily impacted a numbers of rivers and ecosistems.
Presenting Author: Gunnar Baldwin
Preferred Session: We are connected: Integrating global interlinkages in impact assessments
Summary Statement: This paper examines how environmental journalists are helping to catalyze the incorporation of climate considerations into IA at both the policy/strategic level and project-specific level.
Presenting Author: Kelly Bronson
Preferred Session: Importance of science, evidence, and meaningful engagement for IA decisions
Summary Statement: IA scholarship and practice has focused on procedural fairness and constitutional rights. Our presentation draws attention to scholarship and practice that speaks to cultural and epistemic justice
Presenting Author: Barry Dalal-Clayton
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: This paper will explore the role of environmental novels as a vehicle to present issue addressed in environmental assessments and raise environmental awareness
Presenting Author: Beatrice Gomez
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: An examination of the constraints and opportunities in environmental planning, including undertaking robust IAs, for private sector led projects funded by development finance institutions.
Presenting Author: Mariano Oliveros
Preferred Session: SEA (TBD)
Summary Statement: The practice of SEA has allowed changing the urban expectations in the Community of Madrid to take into account environmental protection as a value instead of as an obstacle.
Presenting Author: Han Meng
Preferred Session: Impact assessment of large-scale linear infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Brief overview of the measures that are being put in place to address the potential environmental opportunities and threats associated with corridor development.
Presenting Author: Kojo Agbenor-Efunam
Preferred Session: Collaboration to enhance availability and access to biodiversity data
Summary Statement: Ghana aims at mapping out its environmental sensitivity for the coastal areas and the Voltaian basin to aid decission making in oil and gas development.
Presenting Author: Todd Hall
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Guyana’s Coastal Ecosystem Services Assessment: A case study on best practice for baseline data collection using imagery-based analysis coupled with community participation
Presenting Author: Fernando Leão
Preferred Session: Evaluación del impacto sobre la Biodiversidad y RN2000 en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Las invasiones biológicas son un problema muy serio para la conservación de la biodiversidad y la red Natura 2000. ¿Debería la evaluación de impacto de un proyecto referirse a este tema?
Presenting Author: Jokinen Laura
Preferred Session: Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into health impact assessment
Summary Statement: This research underscores innovative approaches used to establish a culturally appropriate health monitoring system for First Nations affected by industrial development in Canada
Presenting Author: MIGUEL ABASCAL
Preferred Session: Addressing reprisal risks in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Metodología de la Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica aplicada un proyecto singular de regeneración urbana en la ciudad de Madrid
Presenting Author: Miguel Ángel Zapata Mateo
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: El Índice de Saturación por Nitrógeno en Aragón (aplicado en la tramitación de autorizaciones ambientales) estima el el riesgo de contaminación de aguas subterráneas por nitratos e impacto.
Presenting Author: Carli Steenkamp
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: This paper applies a refined framework for the evaluation of multiple dimensions of effectiveness for project level EIA in a developing country context.
Presenting Author: jose delis
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: Se analiza cómo ha evolucionado el análisis de riesgos en proyectos de mayor exposición y, cuales han sido las lecciones aprendidas en la evaluación de impactos ambientales en Chile.
Presenting Author: Bridget Durning
Preferred Session: Impact of offshore renewables on human communities
Summary Statement: The presentation explores the evolving social responses in the community and in the media from early wariness to later acceptance during the early life of an offshore windfarm.
Presenting Author: Nick Taylor
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: An ex post SIA of irrigated land use change provides insights to longer term changes, to assist future irrigation assessments and adaptive management leading to enhanced social outcomes.
Presenting Author: Marcelo Montaño
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: The role to be played by a systematic assessment of impacts in post-disaster mitigation strategies and adaptive management.
Presenting Author: Ray Victurine
Preferred Session: Exploring the need to shake up biodiversity offset theory and application
Summary Statement: The session highlights the results of innovative and stakeholder-oriented offset policy and implementation approaches achieved in Mozambique and Uganda to achieve no net loss of biodiversity
Presenting Author: Maria Dacunha
Preferred Session: New directions in livelihood restoration in project design and beyond
Summary Statement: Lessons in meeting the challenges of restoring livelihoods in the face of urbanization, climate change and demand for cash compensation.
Presenting Author: Vincent Roquet
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: This paper presents lessons learned from the Artisan-Fez Medina Project in Morocco, with a particular focus on how the restoration of livelihoods was ensured through participatory processes
Presenting Author: Mika Pohjonen
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Role and significance of stakeholder engagement, interaction and impact assessments in gaining the public acceptance needed for licensing of the world's first final disposal of spent nuclear
Presenting Author: Andreas Barkman
Preferred Session: EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan: key aspects for IFIs and IA practitioners
Summary Statement: The presentation will highlight EEA’s contribution to the TEG and provide insights on the key challenges and opportunities in tracking and reporting on environmentally sustainable finance.
Presenting Author: Eelco de Groot
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: This paper discusses the results of the stakeholder engagement in the first Dutch SIA based on IFC ever. The SIA is piloted for a large scale infrastructure project.
Presenting Author: Tau Morove
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Fisheries studies undertaken during construction of the PNG LNG project indicated no long-term negative socio-economic impacts.
Presenting Author: Emily Bever
Preferred Session: General best practice principles for impact assessment
Summary Statement: The presentation will describe and solicit input on proposed updates to the Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment and highlight principles that underpin it
Presenting Author: carlos Cattaneo
Preferred Session: Value impact in global food chain governance
Summary Statement: Diversity in Argentina’s food consumption implies environmental risks, whose proper evaluation requires novel perspectives and approachs going beyond traditional administration's postulates.
Presenting Author: Andres Amaya
Preferred Session: Implementing FPIC through the IA processes
Summary Statement: Keeping the legitimacy of the engagement and participation mechanism is the basis of a successful FPIC process: a summary of Colombian cases studies.
Presenting Author: Cheryl Wasserman
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Paper presents a framework for addressing compliance and enforcement challenges for every stage in the EsIA “governance and implementation systems” and encouraging review and contributions f
Presenting Author: Dillian Nason
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Species decline with altitude on mountain habits. Frog survey was done in 2016 to test theory and temperature effects. Temperature effect was significant. More studies needed in PNG.
Presenting Author: Mariana Rodrigues Ribeiros dos Santos
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: This work seeks to identify regional criteria and factors capable of guidding the design of green infrastructures and to establish the relationship between regional and municipal plans.
Presenting Author: Angela Filipas
Preferred Session: Building sustainable project pipelines in infrastructure finance
Summary Statement: The presentation will focus on good practice integration of the environmental considerations into strategic plans that set the framework for sustainable investments in transport sector.
Presenting Author: Sara Khoshkar
Preferred Session: SEA (TBD)
Summary Statement: The potential role of SEA to address governance challenges for implementing ecosystem services from vision to action in urban and landscape planning is explored, from Swedish experiences.
Presenting Author: Michael Ilesanmi
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Mapping the availability, accessibility, quality and referral procedures is strengthens prevention and response to GBV/SEA
Presenting Author: Jackie Lerner
Preferred Session: Gender in human rights impact assessment: Experiences and perspectives
Summary Statement: Good impact assessment practices can help us understand how the benefits and costs of resource development accrue differently to groups differentiated by gender and other diversity factors.
Presenting Author: Imrana Jalal
Preferred Session: IFIs and adoption of lessons learned through their accountability functions
Summary Statement: A look at lessons emerging from two World Bank Inspection Panel cases involving gender-based violence and actions the Bank has taken in response.
Presenting Author: Tatia Zubrinich
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: This paper examines digital application from commencement of infrastructure siting and concept design to ensure optimal outcomes for receiving environmental values.
Presenting Author: Dylan Taute
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: A culturally grounded framework for the impact assessment of geothermal developments in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Presenting Author: Anthony Sutton
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: In an Australian first, strategic environmental assessment is providing environmental outcomes for next 50-100 and potentially reducing environmental approval timeframes by up to 50 per cent
Presenting Author: Jamie Skinner
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Designing benefit-sharing approaches to support resettlement requires proper consideration of institutions, governance and timescales to successfully implement programmes that restore liveli
Presenting Author: Isabel Lavadenz
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: This paper argues that EIAs ought to include a “grievance assessment” component- as part of smartening E & S impact assessments.
Presenting Author: Isabel Lavadenz
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: The paper argues that EIAs ought to include a “grievance assessment” component- as part of smartening E & S impact assessments.
Presenting Author: Dick van Straaten
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Guaranteeing quality has always been a big issue in EIA, on all levels. The role and involvement of the public and stakeholder becomes more and more decisive in making 'a good EIA'
Presenting Author: Giel Hendriks
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: The NCEA has been requested by the IGF to provide an independent advise on their Guidance. The NCEA has examined the guidance and presents its main findings and recommandations.
Presenting Author: Thomas Fischer
Preferred Session: Smartening health and well-being in IA: From policies to projects
Summary Statement: The guidance note on addressing health impacts of plans and programmes in SEA will be introduced. This is prepared in the context of the Protocol on SEA to the Espoo Convention.
Presenting Author: Sarah Court
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: The speaker will discuss the revision of the Guidance on Impact Assessments for World Heritage Properties that has taken place within the World Heritage Leadership programme
Presenting Author: Gabriele Oedendorfer
Preferred Session: EIA
Summary Statement: EIA is getting more complex due to different stakeholder-requirements. The paper analyses the contribution of EIA Best Practice Principles to meet the various demands and set standards.
Presenting Author: Benjamin Ofosu-Koranteng
Preferred Session: We are connected: Integrating global interlinkages in impact assessments
Summary Statement: The presentation will review gaps and opportunities in existing ESIA legislations for Zambia and Botswana as well as practical lessons from the Kazungula Bridge project
Presenting Author: Khaled Nassar
Preferred Session: Participation and grievance resolution in involuntary resettlement
Summary Statement: The MCC-financed Wastewater Network project harmonized international and national procedures during planning and implementation in order to facilitate project investments.
Presenting Author: Marcus Chilaka
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: • The right conditions exist for integration of HIA into public policy in Nigeria, as in many developing countries. Improved awareness, especially using digital and technological progress, a
Presenting Author: Karina Camasmie Abe
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Lisbon would avoid more than 423 premature deaths (equivalent to 9,172 life years’ gain) and save more than US$45 million annually if PM2.5 air pollutant concentration reached WHO standards.
Presenting Author: Nana Akesseh
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Field surveys and bio-media sampling, as well as literature review were collected for HIA study for the redevelopment of Obuasi Gold Mine in the Ashanti Region of Ghana
Presenting Author: Elvira Domínguez Ares
Preferred Session: Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: Estado del arte y experiencias en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Reflections on two practical cases of Health Impact Assessment in Urban Planning in Spain. Uncertainties, difficulties and opportunities found in the process.
Presenting Author: Jittima Rodsawad
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: This paper presents how health impact assessment can be a useful tool for transboundary health impacts management in special economic zones between Thailand and Lao PDR.
Presenting Author: Atiyah Curmally
Preferred Session: Smartening E&S skills in international finance
Summary Statement: Discover how IFC is mining its 15 years’ worth of ESG due diligence data and using artificial intelligence and data analytics to strengthen due diligence and move markets.
Presenting Author: Anne Lise Middelboe
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: We present an outlook and examples on how digital tools can support marine EIAs and discuss how digitalization can be used to implement new science for environmental impact screening.
Presenting Author: David Gainsford
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Exploring approaches to using collaboration with communities in EIA processes to achieve long term public value through major infrastructure projects.
Presenting Author: Ashijya Otwong
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: The article examines how citizen science evidence is used in environmental litigations in Thailand and how Thai court weigh scientific evidences from different sources in each case.
Presenting Author: David Pereira Jerez
Preferred Session: EIA
Summary Statement: This work presents a state-of-the-art review on how all the impact assessment family of tools can contribute to SDGs achievement.
Presenting Author: Vinicius Arthico Demori
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: A thorough investigation regarding the cost and time consumed in EIA and decision-making processes, focused on projects of energy distribution systems.
Presenting Author: Marielis Fischer
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: The example of SEA Airport Link shows how SEA can influence the ways of negotiating challenges faced during the process of an SEA and follow-up processes.
Presenting Author: Andrea MacLeod
Preferred Session: Importance of science, evidence, and meaningful engagement for IA decisions
Summary Statement: In 2015 the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority launched a transparent and robust project and environmental review process. The result is improved decision making and increased public trust.
Presenting Author: Shigeo Nishikizawa
Preferred Session: What is the real extent of social impacts of renewable energy projects?
Summary Statement: This presentation clarifies the actual situation of conflicts due to wind and solar-PV projects and effective measures which can lead to project implementation successfully in Japan.
Presenting Author: Lea Esterhuizen
Preferred Session: Listening with technology: deepening the impact of impact assessments
Summary Statement: We will cover our lessons learnt from the impact assessment field and share how our own work has evolved.
Presenting Author: Annica Waleij
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: Incidents involving critical infrastructure, including dams and power generation, is increasingly common in conflict-affected areas with documented impact. It is thus a topic that warrants f
Presenting Author: Sérgio Moreira
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: The lack of consideration of key constructs in Social Psychology has lead to fallacies of humana behaviour that harm the relationship between projects and communities
Presenting Author: Ijeoma Vincent-Akpu
Preferred Session: Integrating human rights into ESHIA of agro, forestry, and fisheries projec
Summary Statement: Experience has shown that integrating human rights in assessment of fisheries projects will not only ensure good planning and practice but also equitable and sustainable development of the s
Presenting Author: Jan Nuesink
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Exploring interrelationships and participative process of planning major energy transition and SEA, elaborating on regional cases to feed discussions.
Presenting Author: Kedar Uttam
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: We reflect on inter-linking IA and sustainable procurement and discuss an innovative approach towards IA that emphasises dialogues and strategic thinking to protect local livelihoods.
Presenting Author: Behzad Raissiyan
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Iran’s IA governance system systematically evaluated and the potential role and impacts of new IT based technology have been identified and discussed
Presenting Author: Adebayo Majekolagbe
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: I consider how climate change has been integrated into the impact assessment of LNG projects in British Columbia, Canada. Climate change IA Guidelines for the LNG sector are proposed.
Presenting Author: Grace Eunyoung Lee
Preferred Session: Developing a Smart Impact Assessment Act: A hypothetical
Summary Statement: With the advent of ICT, the ideal of "meaningful consultation" and FPIC could be more easily achieved, only when some preconditions are met.
Presenting Author: Yoonji Kim
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: This study assessed the issues of photovoltaic power generation projects in South Korea and addressed future direction to be taken to resolve such issues.
Presenting Author: Shaza Zeinelabdin
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: An introduction and launch of IFC’s Good Practice Handbook on Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement, a comprehensive practitioner’s guide for implementation of resettlement and livel
Presenting Author: Rob Stuart
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: This PPP guide explains how communities affected by a PPP can engage in the project.
Presenting Author: Jong-Gwan Jung
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Development of measures to treat waste plastics pyrolysis for oil extraction across the LCA, and establishment of approach in the management policy against plastic issues.
Presenting Author: Orleno Marques da Silva Junior
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: This paper aims to present results from a comparative study of IA procedure of hydroelectric plants adopted in Brazil, with the procedure adopted in Latin America and OECD countries.
Presenting Author: Kiri Staples
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: This paper analyzes IA in the context of a modern treaty in Canada, looking at the extent to which it sets up an assessment process that contributes to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods.
Presenting Author: Mariana Pinheiro
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: Impact assessment: the Brazilian experience on assessing hydropower projects effects on indigenous people. Challenges and opportunities for methodology improvements.
Presenting Author: Maximin Djondo
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: • In Benin, although environmental protection is one of the priority areas in policies designed for sustainable development, EIA seems not yet be a development tool in practice.
Presenting Author: MYUNGJIN KIM
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Asian perspectives inform three central lessons for IA presented in the following sections: the influence of culture, the centrality of policymaking and the increase in public participation.
Presenting Author: Richard Veillon
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: Richard Veillon Project Officer UNESCO - World Heritage Centre Policy and statutory meetings Unit (WHC/PSM) Coordinator of the World Heritage Reactive Monitoring process
Presenting Author: Rachel Asante-Owusu
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: IUCN BBP programme officer
Presenting Author: Anthony Kalma
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: The author explores IA in the context of company-community relationships and “whole of life” project design and execution, that gives opportunity for strengthening opportunities for sustaine
Presenting Author: Cláudia Lima Ayer de Noronha
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: The paper aims to describe the methodology used to identify and conduct the impact assessment of people affected by the breakage of a mining tailings dam that occurred in 2015 in Brazil.
Presenting Author: Brady Reid
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: This project examined the impact assessment process of the Maritime Link Project in Newfoundland (NL) and found that colonial relationships persist for rural Mi'kmaw communities in NL.
Presenting Author: Ginger Gibson
Preferred Session: Implementing FPIC through the IA processes
Summary Statement: Indigenous consent comes into play throughout the mine life cycle (exploration, production, and closure). We explore how IA could support the exercise of IFPIC at each of these stages.
Presenting Author: Florian Sommer
Preferred Session: Best practices in implementing sustainable finance
Summary Statement: Union Investment has made full ESG integration in its investment process and engaging stakeholders towards more comprehensive disclosure of non-financial data a key management priority.
Presenting Author: Andrea Repetto Vargas
Preferred Session: Gender in human rights impact assessment: Experiences and perspectives
Summary Statement: Two principles could be utilized by IA practitioners when conducting human rights impact assessment: inclusion of women’s perspective and provide women access to information.
Presenting Author: Cong LI
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: We examine one of China’s anti-poverty relocation and settlement program—drawing insights of poor households’ livelihood strategy after moving out from the deep slopping mountain areas in we
Presenting Author: John Glasson
Preferred Session: Impact of offshore renewables on human communities
Summary Statement: The presentation explores the evolving role of, and associated issues in, the use of Community Benefits Agreements in the development of major offshore wind farm projects.
Presenting Author: Leonardo Viana
Preferred Session: Assessing significance: Practical lessons from global IA projects
Summary Statement: Discusses solutions to advance impact significance assessment: a biodiversity indicators methodology and research on technologies that improve delivery of the mitigation hierarchy.
Presenting Author: Pilar Clemente-Fernandez
Preferred Session: Impactos acumulativos en Iberoamerica: lecciones aprendidas (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement: Panel discussion,chair by Miles Scott-Brown, featuring experiences & lessons learned in CIA from the perspective of private consultancy, international institution and government regulator
Presenting Author: Miles Scott-Brown
Preferred Session: Impactos acumulativos en Iberoamerica: lecciones aprendidas (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement: Discussion of lessons learned from the application of cumulative impact assessment in iberoamerica
Presenting Author: Juan Quintero
Preferred Session: Impactos acumulativos en Iberoamerica: lecciones aprendidas (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement: The challenges of cumualtive impact assessment in Iberoamerica: las pespectivas desde la consultoria.
Presenting Author: Leeanne Alonso
Preferred Session: Impactos acumulativos en Iberoamerica: lecciones aprendidas (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement: Experience of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Cumulative Impact Assessment/ Experiencia del la IFC con impacts acumulativos
Presenting Author: Marco Donato
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Digital technologies combined with solid scientific knowledge help assessing impacts on biodiversity, avoiding magnifying effects and misinterpretation that can lead to project stop
Presenting Author: Julio Trujillo Segura
Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
Summary Statement: The Energy Transition Law attributes SEMARNAT to SEIA, unfolding important challenges for its implementation. While the Energy Transition Law has been published in 2015, it has not been put into effect. It is until 2019 that a process to evaluate projects has been unveiled.
Presenting Author: Knut Kitching
Preferred Session: Implementing FPIC through the IA processes
Summary Statement: This paper details how participant funding, appropriate translation, and innovations to data collection in Indigenous settings have contributed to the implementation of FPIC at Nunavut’s Mar
Presenting Author: Rosamaria Neffa
Preferred Session: Participation and grievance resolution in involuntary resettlement
Summary Statement: This presentation exposes the implementation process, for the Grievance Resolution Mechanism for involuntary Resettlement
Presenting Author: Debbie Chan
Preferred Session: Implementing UNDRIP into IA for better decisions
Summary Statement: The Province of British Columbia recently implemented UNDRIP through the new Environmental Assessment Act, which requires BC to seek to achieve consensus with Indigenous nations on assessmen
Presenting Author: Jorge Garcia
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: We will analyze some Chilean EIA cases where criteria to determine te existence of improper segmentation of projects were used to underestimate cumulative impacts.
Presenting Author: Hugo Miguel Costa
Preferred Session: Collaboration to enhance availability and access to biodiversity data
Summary Statement: Project COMBO gathered dispersed and difficult to access biodiversity data, making it available to the public by working with the Government, other international projects and local instituti
Presenting Author: Christine Lamont
Preferred Session: Scaling out, not up! Improve IA efficiency via collaboration and dataficati
Summary Statement: Dr Christine Lamont, Chief Environmental Scientist, NOPSEMA, Australia
Presenting Author: Suzy Nikièma
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: The IGF Guidance for Governments: Improving Frameworks for Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Management will be presented. It provides tools for ESIA good governance in mining.
Presenting Author: Rebecca Young
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: Scottish Government’s SEA team deliver SEA's and advice on a range of national projects. This presentation/paper will cover our approach with emphasis on managing risks and uncertainties in
Presenting Author: Josep Maria Torrents Abad
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: The Government of Catalonia has worked with different stakeholders to develop an strategy to introduce the health in an integrated way by sustainability in the SEA of urban planning.
Presenting Author: Dawn Hoogeveen
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: We question if indicator tools can be useful to analyze gender within Social Impact Assessment given the sensitive nature of equity related data.
Presenting Author: Catherine Cockney
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: The Inuvialuit Final Agreement established a resource co-management regime in Canada’s Western Arctic region. The presentation will describe how Indigenous rights and knowledge are incorporated into impact assessment decisions.
Presenting Author: Jara Hamann
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Senace, the Peruvian environmental licensing agency, has generated social management tools for the EIA evaluation in order to guide project proponents, evaluators and citizens regarding incl
Presenting Author: Marvic Angélica Rico Gallegos
Preferred Session: Using spatial web-enabled tools for environmental screening: Pros and cons?
Summary Statement: Analyze of two projects evaluated by Senace located on wetlands in the Peruvian Andes and the use of spatial web-enabled tools for the estimation of environmental impacts
Presenting Author: Cole Atlin
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: Researchers and members from Eabametoong First Nation collaboratively developed sustainability criteria for assessments in the proposed mining developments in their traditional territory.
Presenting Author: Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Indigenous controlled impact assessment seeks to ensure that proposed projects are only approved if they are ecologically, socially and culturally sustainable.
Presenting Author: Bengt Pettersson
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: The Inuvialuit Final Agreement established a resource co-management regime in Canada’s Western Arctic region. We will describe how ITK is incorporated into impact assessment decisions.
Presenting Author: Jeffry Anwar
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: This paper discusses the process of setting up the use of country safeguards system to be aligned with international best practices on involuntary resettlement.
Presenting Author: Juha Kotilainen
Preferred Session: Beginning with the end in mind
Summary Statement: Mining is changing and the traditionally important factors to achieve local acceptance are diminishing. New approaches are needed to produce benefits for the communities.
Presenting Author: George Edema Taako
Preferred Session: How does EIA influence decision making in the oil and gas sector?
Summary Statement: The current institutional and regulatory framework for EIA in Uganda, an economy with emerging oil and gas sector present SWOTs for achieving the SDGs.
Presenting Author: Bakary Kone
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: Sourou sub-basin, inter-community, sustainable development, strategic axes.
Presenting Author: Jeanette Normand
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is synonymous with systems thinking which is a core tenant of Impact Assessment
Presenting Author: Minho LEE
Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
Summary Statement: Climate change adaptation is crucial in national land planing. To this end, topics are examined for the integration of adaptation components into the Framework plan for National Land, Korea.
Presenting Author: Chochoe Devaporihartakula
Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: Good practices to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation measures into EIAs are limited, especially in developing countries, due to lack of EIA mechanisms to handle uncertainty.
Presenting Author: Judith Muhomba
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: Impact Assessment is a useful tool wherein to conduct climate risk assessments. Donor agencies like the United States Agency for International Development have recognized the importance of i
Presenting Author: Meinhard Doelle
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: The paper assesses the Canadian experience with the consideration of GHG emissions in project assessments under the new IAA.
Presenting Author: Rob Nieuwenhuis
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: Catchment Committees and process integration of SEA and IWRM to develop catchment plans leads to sustainable governance and green growth in Rwanda’s landscape of a thousand hills
Presenting Author: Anthony Kung
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: In the mining sector, knowledge gained during pre-approval SIA rapidly becomes out of date. We discuss practical and conceptual challenges of integrating evaluation thinking into SIA.
Presenting Author: Christopher Bowles
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Machine learning can transform our understanding of the environment and drive our decision making.
Presenting Author: Laura Randall
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: Canada has developed a new, efficient approach to integrate the regulatory processes for pipeline projects into federal impact assessments.
Presenting Author: Celesa Horvath
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: This presentation will provide a practitioner’s perspective on procedural and practical issues arising from inter-governmental cooperation in IA and suggestions to address them.
Presenting Author: Alan Potkin
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: Working in mainland SE Asia, I see very slender adoption here of Digital EIA in conventional project evaluation; or in downstream learning praxis. My counterparts are able but thwarted.
Presenting Author: Claude Saint-Pierre
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: Real-life examples from using internet surveys in public policy evaluations: what do they tell us about developing the use of internet surveys for public consultation in impact assessment?
Presenting Author: Alan Kennedy
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: This presentation outlines the development of a community-based monitoring program in the western Canadian Arctic, in response to the construction of a new all-weather highway.
Presenting Author: Marco Gutierrez
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: We investigate the implementation phase of the Melbourne Strategic Assessment, including the progress in achieving biodiversity outcomes and the challenges arising in the SEA implementation.
Presenting Author: SONALI GHOSH
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: Nature-Culture linkage as an indicator of effective implementation of post EIA measures in heritage sites
Presenting Author: Lars Soeftestad
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: The paper presents an overview of involuntary resettlement in Nepal. It focuses on social and environmental impact assessment and gives guidance to future cases of involuntary resettlement.
Presenting Author: Kwadwo Gyampo
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Resettlement Action Planning is a proven and time tested social assessment tool for effective evaluation of involuntary resettlement for Project Affected Persons.
Presenting Author: Carolyn Cameron
Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
Summary Statement: For decades planners and environmental scientists have debated “rational’ decisions. Applying scientific reductionist approaches may work for simple choices, but fails to tackle complexity.
Presenting Author: Toby Gibbs
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Exploring an approach to EIA that ensures compliance with the legal requirements but allows EIA professionals to be pragmatic, innovative and creative so as to best ensure development occurs
Presenting Author: Roel Slootweg
Preferred Session: Building sustainable project pipelines in infrastructure finance
Summary Statement: For hydropower to play its role in a green energy future it has to be assessed within a strategic planning framework at river basin and at energy sector level.
Presenting Author: Ishanlosen Odiaua
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: Social Development
Presenting Author: Youngjae Yoo
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: This study examines environmental issues that arise from conflicts with the revitalization policy of photovoltaic power generation projects and suggests future policy directions.
Presenting Author: James Lea-Cox
Preferred Session: Emerging issues in ESG risk management
Summary Statement: James Lea-Cox, Senior Environmental Advisor, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), London, UK
Presenting Author: Justine Namara
Preferred Session: How to successfully conduct an EIA/SEA in the digital era
Summary Statement: ESIA reviews in Uganda are taking a new approach of joint review compared to individual reviews. How efficient is this process in addressing the negative impacts of large scale projects?
Presenting Author: Suzanne Cotillon
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: The current enthusiasm for global datasets and increasingly automated risk screening carries its own risks and limitations, which we discuss using examples from Biotope’s global practice.
Presenting Author: Filipe Silva
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: The Kenyan government is institutionalizing HIA integrated with ESIA. This IDA-funded multi-component project will enhance the petroleum sector’s contribution to SDG3 and other SDGs.
Presenting Author: Kevin D'Souza
Preferred Session: Emerging issues in ESG risk management
Summary Statement: Over 25 years of experience in the mining sector in over 50 countries focused on environmental, sustainability and security management for both the private and public sectors
Presenting Author: Adina Relicovschi
Preferred Session: Advancements in environmental and social policies of the European IFIs
Summary Statement: In the coming months,the EU Bank will be reviewing its E&S Statement and Standards that set the policy context for mainstreaming sustainability into its investments.What are the key updates?
Presenting Author: Kenji Ogura
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: The Land Acquisition Impact Assessment and Management (LAIAM) has been introduced as a social impact assessment in Japan. This paper discusses how LAIAM works by effectively using GIS.
Presenting Author: Hari M. Mathur
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: This paper describes the currently applicable land acquisition law in India, more liberal in its compensation package, and then looks at how the law is faring during its implementation.
Presenting Author: Qingnian YU
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: The presentation will review the recent comprehensive land policy reform in China and examine its impacts on involuntary resettlement from various aspects.
Presenting Author: Patricia Fitzpatrick
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: This presentation identifies avenues for more consistent, best practice guidance for follow-up & monitoring.
Presenting Author: Bob Watts
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: A reflection on benefits from lessons regarding relationship, research methods and describing ways NWMO continues to develop a deeper understandings of site selection.
Presenting Author: John Boyle
Preferred Session: Opportunities and challenges for early career IA practitioners and research
Summary Statement: The presentation highlights learnings from IAIA’s inaugural online IA training course, and the key features that are key to delivering relevant training to IA professionals where they live and work.
Presenting Author: Simon Drummond
Preferred Session: EIA
Summary Statement: Open-cut mines are rarely, if ever, back-filled. We discuss our experiences where residual voids are the proposed final landform and the potential impacts to aquatic ecological values.
Presenting Author: Andrea Leuenberger
Preferred Session: Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Considering perspectives of specific population subgroups is crucial to ensure equitable consideration in identifying and managing diverse health impacts of resource extraction projects.
Presenting Author: Leila Neimane
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: The presentation explores the need to legislate the SLO, using soft law or hard law, and whether it should be done through interconnecting the legislative requirements of the EIA.
Presenting Author: Asa Lind Chong
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: This study investigates the potential effects of certain legal processes concerning land use, land management and indigenous rights in Sweden, from a future sustainability perspective.
Presenting Author: Gwendolyn Wellmann
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: This paper will explore the ongoing resettlement of Dingleton town against the backdrop of the South African legal and regulatory framework, as well as the IFC’s Performance Standard 5.
Presenting Author: Francis Crome
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: The PNG LNG offset program in PNG has been developed over 11 years and emphasizes the pragmatic needs of considering offsets before accounting.
Presenting Author: Abhishek Singh
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Resettlement challenges and opportunities in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
Presenting Author: Heather Rasmussen
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: Lessons from the Nunavut Impact Review Board’s first SEA which emphasized transparency, public participation, and utilization of both scientific information and local indigenous knowledge.
Presenting Author: Cindy Bryson
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: This paper explores the cultural factors influencing resettlement related legal and regulatory frameworks in the Pacific Island countries.
Presenting Author: LUCIANA COSTA
Preferred Session: New learning approaches for HIA capacity strengthening
Summary Statement: The development of a national policy to provide a framework for effective HIA implementation in Portugal is crucial to promote health in all policies, intersectorial colaboration and SDGs
Presenting Author: Anarmaa Sharkhuu
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: As CIA is widely adopted in developing countries, the discrepancy in national legislation and international best practice arise, and both IA practitioners and regulators have little experien
Presenting Author: Adeolu Ojo
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: This paper presents an overview of lessons learnt from World Bank Assisted projects in Nigeria, and recommends the measures that can be instituted to facilitate OHS compliance.
Presenting Author: Simon Tarr
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: This paper will describe and discuss a cutting-edge approach to designing healthier, more biodiverse and more resilient urban infrastructure.
Presenting Author: Neal Barker
Preferred Session: Smartening E&S skills in international finance
Summary Statement: Hear about the important but sometime fractured links between international ESG assessment, safeguarding criteria, ESG impact additionally criteria and ESG ratings and how they are applied.
Presenting Author: Ana Maria Esteves
Preferred Session: New directions in livelihood restoration in project design and beyond
Summary Statement: If we want to place the interests and concerns of economically displaced people at the centre of project design and planning, what would an enabling indicator framework look like?
Presenting Author: Gosia Nowakowska-Miller
Preferred Session: Local content development: Advances in approaches, tools, and governance
Summary Statement: This presentation discusses how a local content strategy is an example of a tool in managing local stakeholder expectations which can create risks to the viability of large scale investments
Presenting Author: Varalakshmi Vemuru
Preferred Session: New directions in livelihood restoration in project design and beyond
Summary Statement: A combination of Community Driven Development and Local Economic Development has been useful in supporting livelihoods for host and refugees in the Horn of Africa.
Presenting Author: Takumi Nagashima
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: We examined measures to be taken in the future by investigating the intentions and current measures of geothermal development in Japanese local governments.
Presenting Author: Melanie Herrmann
Preferred Session: Digital EIA: Is the smartening of EIA working?
Summary Statement: Using indicators like learnability, memorability, and repeated use, this research investigates how to best communicate information via digital tools to design for decision-making and impact.
Presenting Author: HANG NGUYEN
Preferred Session: Value impact in global food chain governance
Summary Statement: In Vietnam, the risk analysis in food safety regulations does not fully apply in practice is the reason for food safety incidents that happen every day.
Presenting Author: Aniqah Misbach
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: A case study of two wind farms in South Africa which have taken steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their turbine foundations and how this can be taken further.
Presenting Author: John Pilgrim
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: LPA permits the retention of household livelihoods systems of fishing villages affected by hydropower development and their inclusion in sustainable development.
Presenting Author: Laura Ahopelto
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: Presenting actions and policies of the City of Espoo to strengthen its ecological network on municipal and national level.
Presenting Author: George Hegmann
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Opportunities of impact assessment information and process to meet resource use conflicts for major projects in Canada within a changing world.
Presenting Author: Emily Harris
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Mining operations frequently have hundreds of obligations to track and report against. This session reviews how the industry is responding to a growing global demand for transparency.
Presenting Author: Christopher Polglase
Preferred Session: Improving coverage of cultural heritage in EIA
Summary Statement: I will discuss cultural heritage risks, outline the challenges associated with defining heritage baseline conditions, and suggest approaches for modeling and managing heritage risks.
Presenting Author: Larry Kotoe
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Mitigating the impacts of 2D Seismic exploration in a multi socio-cultural communities and ecologically sensitive habitats through a livelihood and compensation framework.
Presenting Author: David Vexler
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: The ECO Score is an effective and innovative tool used to manage environmental matters, hold employees accountable and create value for all stakeholders.
Presenting Author: Jorge Ignacio García Nielsen
Preferred Session: Addressing reprisal risks in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Manipulation of environmental models and significance impact criteria in order to underestimate environmental impacts is a common practice that should be regulated.
Presenting Author: FREDERIC VILLERS
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: French Mediterranean authorities have published the guidebook « Eval_Impact » to improve marine EIA. French regulations, methodology, mitigation hierarchy and environmental monitoring are de
Presenting Author: Kjerstin Skeidsvoll Lange
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: The Arctic Council ‘Good Practice Recommendations for Arctic EIAs' gives guidance on meaningful engagement’ An example of meaningful engagement in North Slope, Alaska' will be presented.
Presenting Author: Anna Johnston
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: This paper compares principles of meaningful participation and early planning to Canada’s new IA law, identifying challenges and opportunities for deliberative engagement and effective IAs
Presenting Author: Sonja Derkum
Preferred Session: IFIs and adoption of lessons learned through their accountability functions
Summary Statement: DO YOU (WANT TO) HEAR MY VOICE? The Complaints Mechanism and operational services of the EIB present complaints and lessons learned about meaningful stakeholder engagement and public consult
Presenting Author: Jan-Willem van Bochove
Preferred Session: Assessing significance: Practical lessons from global IA projects
Summary Statement: We discuss key challenges for assessing marine biodiversity significance and identify practical approaches that can be used to work with limited data to effectively assess impacts.
Presenting Author: Marlene Ho
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: The presentation gives an overview on the pollution discharge control mechanism in Hong Kong and how EIA findings canplay a role in it for major developments.
Presenting Author: Bruce Muir
Preferred Session: Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Deficiencies in Indigenous HIA methods, analysis, and engagement are identified, strategies and opportunities to improve its procedural and substantive effectiveness are presented.
Presenting Author: Xiaochen Zhang
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: This paper takes an environmental pollution project as an example to analyze the evolution of social risk and risk social theory from the perspective of risk society, sort out the appeals an
Presenting Author: M. ESTHER VALDIVIA
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: A methodology for determining the vulnerability analysis of an industrial project in four steps
Presenting Author: Ludger Benighaus
Preferred Session: Beginning with the end in mind
Summary Statement: The EU-project INFACT focusses on innovative exploration technologies. Authors will present the stakeholder process at three reference sites in Spain, Germany and Finland.
Presenting Author: Sandy Worden
Preferred Session: Implementing FPIC through the IA processes
Summary Statement: Canadian First Nations are proactively responding to mineral resource development on their traditional territories by developing their own governance instruments.
Presenting Author: Patrick Marco
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: The PNG LNG Project is working with relevant stakeholders to sustainably manage ongoing encroachments by local fisherman into the exclusion zones of the LNG plant site jetty area.
Presenting Author: Federica Sodré
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: Mitigation hierarchy a strategic methodology to improve hydropower planning. The experience of Brazilian Energy Research Office: challenges, constraints, and opportunities on Amazon Region.
Presenting Author: Daniel Pires
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guideline for wildlife-friendly renewable energies
Summary Statement: We address the mitigation of operational impacts of hydropower infrastructures. The inclusion of mitigation measures in environmental guidelines for the sector will be discussed.
Presenting Author: Mizuki Murai
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: Conservation Officer, IUCN World Heritage Programme
Presenting Author: Iain Woxvold
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: Data from Papua New Guinea demonstrate the utility of camera traps in supporting balanced risk assessments and in providing statistically useful wildlife monitoring datasets.
Presenting Author: Mark Divall
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Session outlines how data from serial cross-sectional surveys can be used to support surveillance of health interventions, and to support the revision of health impacts and related programs.
Presenting Author: Gerardo Leunda
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Long-term aerial and on the ground monitoring of vegetation impacts and recovery for the Camisea natural gas project shows canopy closure and positive restoration trajectories.
Presenting Author: Diego Juffe Bignoli
Preferred Session: Impact assessment of large-scale linear infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Key decision-making process around risk management and spatially explicit application of the mitigation hierarchy for the Mtwara development corridor in Southern Tanzania.
Presenting Author: Astrid Puspitasari
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: Lessons learned from Indonesia on understanding the interaction between humans and the landscape in SEA for spatial planning, interrelations across administrative borders and multi-stakehold
Presenting Author: Javier Macera
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: This paper describes how Senace (Peruvian environmental authority) has integrated the public participation and the multidisciplinary evaluation of EIA, trough a qualitative case study.
Presenting Author: Cesar Octavio Ramos Hidalgo
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Multisectoral cooperation experience in the application of measures to mitigate aircraft noise, as a result of the proyect evaluation for the improve of the capacity of Lima´s Airport.
Presenting Author: Shana Westfall
Preferred Session: A radical approach: IA should start with implementable mitigation measures
Summary Statement: Shana Westfall is a Technical Director responsible for leading ERM’s impact assessment technical community for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Her particular expertise is helping clients on
Presenting Author: Bettina Thomsen
Preferred Session: A radical approach: IA should start with implementable mitigation measures
Summary Statement: Bettina Thomsen, Regional CSR Manager for EMEA, Vestas, Denmark. Solid experiences managing social risks on wind farm projects in emerging markets in accordance with international standards.
Presenting Author: Anselm Iwundu
Preferred Session: A radical approach: IA should start with implementable mitigation measures
Summary Statement: Senior Environmental & Social Officer at FMO. Brings 15 years experience on impact & ESG solutions to assist clients fulfil their ambition to drive positive change mainly in emerging markets
Presenting Author: Vanessa Warnock
Preferred Session: A radical approach: IA should start with implementable mitigation measures
Summary Statement: Vanessa Warnock is an Environmental and Social Governance Manager at Globeleq Limited Africa working to ensure E&S issues are an integral part of the project development process.
Presenting Author: Brian Brooks
Preferred Session: A radical approach: IA should start with implementable mitigation measures
Summary Statement: Globally experienced utility scale solar Projects Director, currently Construction Director of Globeleq’s 50MW Solar Power project in Malindi, Kenya.
Presenting Author: Maria Faraone
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: Neighbourhood contexts impact refugees’ capacity for integration. Understanding the process of settlement in Lebanon with Intergroup Theory, generate criteria for analysing impacts of spaces
Presenting Author: • Edward "Ted" Boling
Preferred Session: The 50th Anniversary of NEPA: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges
Summary Statement: • This paper will review the National Environmental Policy Act's (NEPA) 50 year history, evolution over time, accomplishments, and challenges and opportunities for the future.
Presenting Author: Bobbi Schijf
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: We present a new diagnostic tool to assess country ESIA systems and we share insights from the first applications.
Presenting Author: SIRIVIMON SANRACH
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Develop geoinformatics tool for environmental assessment&management. The tool can easily used to verify protected area and to identify type of Environmental report required by Thailand laws
Presenting Author: Haisuo Wu
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: This paper introduced the design, progress, achievements and existing problems of pollution discharge permit system in China and put forward some suggestions.
Presenting Author: Magdalena Wilczek
Preferred Session: How to successfully conduct an EIA/SEA in the digital era
Summary Statement: Big data is already disrupting traditional approaches to EIA management. This paper explores next generation EIA management and the use of digital tools to avoid information overload.
Presenting Author: Dr Paul Vogel
Preferred Session: General best practice principles for impact assessment
Summary Statement: New EIA legislation in the Northern Territory of Australia will transform the way proposed development is approved while ensuring enhanced public engagement, transparency and compliance.
Presenting Author: Nicholas Bukowski
Preferred Session: Emerging issues in ESG risk management
Summary Statement: Nicholas Bukowski, Technical Director - ESIA and Climate, SLR Consulting. Nicholas manages international ESIAs in multiple sectors.
Presenting Author: Paolo Pucillo
Preferred Session: Impact of offshore renewables on human communities
Summary Statement: The O&G offshore activities could generate an economic impact on fish sector; presentation of an approach that tries to do an objective assessment of the related impacts
Presenting Author: Andrea Peña
Preferred Session: Odor impact assessment: International experience and new technologies
Summary Statement: This presentation will present the state of the art on the odor impact assessment in Chile, focusing on the EIA and on the strategy of the Ministry of the Environment.
Presenting Author: Clara Ribeiro
Preferred Session: Odor impact assessment: International experience and new technologies
Summary Statement: The greater or lesser acceptability of citizens to odors depends not only on the level of intensity to which individuals are exposed, but also on factors that characterize the context of the
Presenting Author: Angélica García
Preferred Session: Odor impact assessment: International experience and new technologies
Summary Statement: In this work, a review of technical tools available to identify and quantify potential odour impacts on new projects is presented
Presenting Author: Ana Villarroya
Preferred Session: Effectiveness of the EIA of transport in the dawn of Anthropocene
Summary Statement: Most EIAs in Spanish transportation projects lacked offsets –a key for sustainability. We present data from the last decade and compare them with academic and legal advances.
Presenting Author: Sergio Gonzalez
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Impact assessment developed within the Previous Consultation framework results in possibilities to improve livelihood of indigenous communities in Colombia.
Presenting Author: Mark Ross
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: Improved digital accessibility is the way forward. But for a report to reach the widest audience there are some considerations the practitioner may not have considered.
Presenting Author: Bernard Crabbé
Preferred Session: Building sustainable project pipelines in infrastructure finance
Summary Statement: Introduces the opportunities to build infrastructure project pipelines aligned to the environmental and climate change global agenda. It sets the ground for invited presentations and for gro
Presenting Author: Zsuzsa Banhalmi-Zakar
Preferred Session: EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan: key aspects for IFIs and IA practitioners
Summary Statement: The concept of sustainable financing is gaining momentum among finance professionals worldwide. What role does impact assessment play in supporting these initiatives?
Presenting Author: Juliet TAZA-ASABA
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: The outcome of Impact Assessment in the Oil and Gas Sector of Cameroon remains questionable and debatable. Thus this paper seeks to showcase oppurtunities from lessons learnt.
Presenting Author: Paula Bruna
Preferred Session: Evaluación del impacto sobre la Biodiversidad y RN2000 en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Nor provided.
Presenting Author: Treacy Roberts
Preferred Session: Local content development: Advances in approaches, tools, and governance
Summary Statement: Optimizing local content requires early invention and adaptability to ensure that programs meet the needs of both buyers and suppliers.
Presenting Author: Kehinde Ayoola
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Optimizing on spent borrow pits across Oyo State to achieve a win-win situation that manages the environment, while providing livelihood options for the people and improving local economy.
Presenting Author: Luke Strickland
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: This paper will explore how appropriate application of outcome-focused technology can lead to technical improvements and deliver more socially inclusive and environmental outcomes.
Presenting Author: Juan Requejo
Preferred Session: SEA (TBD)
Summary Statement: Qualitative research analysis is needed to understand the different narratives underlying in the way landscape is perceived by different social groups
Presenting Author: Alvaro Paredes
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: Analysis of a vulnerable public participation process as such, caused by ‘administrative-procedural over-regulation’, where public participation outcomes are peripheral to evidence.
Presenting Author: Giorgio Baldizzone
Preferred Session: How to successfully conduct an EIA/SEA in the digital era
Summary Statement: The "Cinque Terre Plan"(Italy), is particularly interesting for the relations between SEA, use of digital tools and participatory process, which led to a true effectiveness of SEA.
Presenting Author: Sarah Drew
Preferred Session: Participation and grievance resolution in involuntary resettlement
Summary Statement: Prioritizing stakeholder engagement and developing and implementing a robust grievance mechanism are critical for community acceptance and the success of large-infrastructure projects.
Presenting Author: Susan Joyce
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: Impact assessment and human rights due diligence should be integrated into decisions on location, construction and technologies for tailings facilities, as a means to change decisions.
Presenting Author: Jane Singer
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: This is a case study-based examination of a nationwide benefit-sharing scheme in Vietnam for dam-displaced communities that pays farmers to conserve vital forest ecosystem services.
Presenting Author: Ulrika Akesson
Preferred Session: Peer learning on integration of climate change in development programs
Summary Statement: Sida has a comprehensive framework for environment action that has enabled Sida to integrate environment in its three major roles as financier, analyst and dialogue partner.
Presenting Author: Stéphane Tremblay
Preferred Session: Peer learning on integration of climate change in development programs
Summary Statement: Stéphane Tremblay is an environment specialist at GAC. He is currently working on the implementation of the new Canadian Impact Assessment Act into GAC processes.
Presenting Author: Kalyna Taule
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Lessons learned from the PNG LNG projects’ first environmental genomics pilot study will be presented.
Presenting Author: Aproniano Panorel
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: SEA highlights the use of information, stakeholders participation and dialogue in influencing policy decisions. Case provides useful learnings and insights in land use planning.
Presenting Author: Jeffrey Jacquet
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: Disruption to closely held social and psychological values such as place attachment and place-based identities is a measurable and predictable driver of community acceptance
Presenting Author: Mark Ross
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: The PlaceMarker tool provides a consistent approach for the Environment Agency to benchmark complex river sites and compare the condition post project development.
Presenting Author: Sharryl Ivahupa
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: Part 2 of 2 Part PNG Resettlement Case Study, Part 2 explores challenges in gender considerations in male dominated societies
Presenting Author: Susan Scott
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Part 1 of 2 Part PNG Resettlement Case Study, Part 1 explores challenges in implementation of resettlement livelihood benefits
Presenting Author: Fazriz Fadzil
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: Governance & Policy, Financial Analysis or Technology Implementation to support Social Management and Monitoring Plan in Malaysia
Presenting Author: Petrina Raitt
Preferred Session: Scaling out, not up! Improve IA efficiency via collaboration and dataficati
Summary Statement: Digital IA is a powerful tool throughout the project lifecycle, from scoping to approvals and compliance. We are already reaping the benefits of digital IA in providing quality, consistent EIA.
Presenting Author: Tamara Hochstrasser
Preferred Session: Using spatial web-enabled tools for environmental screening: Pros and cons?
Summary Statement: The Ecobroker.ie website was created to enable the exchange of research questions between practitioners and researchers. Early collaboration enhances the usefulness of decision support.
Presenting Author: Godwin Lema
Preferred Session: Opportunities and challenges for early career IA practitioners and research
Summary Statement: The paper analyse IA expert training experiences in Tanzania to inform dialogues on effective multidisciplinary institutional collaborative strategies to enhance practitioners’ expertise.
Presenting Author: Stefano Battiston
Preferred Session: Advancements in environmental and social policies of the European IFIs
Summary Statement: The presentation will look into the challenges and progress in pricing of forward-looking climate-related financial risk in corporate and sovereign bonds.
Presenting Author: Karl Fuller
Preferred Session: Augmenting IA capacity building: Delivering for SDGs and ESG capability
Summary Statement: Reviews of experience of appraising projects against the SDGs. It proposes principles to be used for such appraisals to significantly contribute to more sustainable outcomes.
Presenting Author: Richard Mackay
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: Prof Richard Mackay, AM is an ICOMOS World Heritage Adviser and the ICOMOS Focal Point for development of new Heritage Impact Assessment Guidelines through the World Heritage Leadership Prog
Presenting Author: Julio Diaz Cruz
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Analyzing the New International Airport in Mexico City, a 13 billion USD canceled mega project, I mapped the emergence and limits of new rationalities that questions traditional mechanisms of EIA.
Presenting Author: Helen Brown
Preferred Session: New learning approaches for HIA capacity strengthening
Summary Statement: Political will is as critical to capacity building as knowledge and skills. Capitalizing on an increase in political will for HIA represents a significant opportunity to the HIA community.
Presenting Author: Xinxin Qiu
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: Introducing the development of "Three Lines and One List" in China and summarizing the achievements of this work based on the experiences of 4 pilot cities and 12 provinces.
Presenting Author: Lourens Loeven
Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: New Dutch legislation like the Climate Act and the Environment and Planning Act introduce an array of new planning instruments. Consequently, Dutch EA practices change rapidly with promise
Presenting Author: Emily McKie
Preferred Session: EIA
Summary Statement: To test the plain language of environmental assessments, we asked: Which instruments designed to increase readability have delivered the most readable impact assessment documents?
Presenting Author: Andrea Pastor
Preferred Session: Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: Estado del arte y experiencias en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Se realizó una propuesta metodológica para integrar la Evaluación de Impacto en Salud en el proceso de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental en el marco político y administrativo Español.
Presenting Author: Randall Krichbaum
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Multi-Criteria Analysis is useful in making early stage siting decisions for wind farms, reducing their biodiversity impacts. Several techniques are discussed and a case study is presented.
Presenting Author: Manuel Rodriguez Brito Rodriguez Brito
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: Psycho-social impacts on communities during the pre-construction phase: is there a role or responsibility for SIA practitioners and project developers in cases of uncertainty and delay?
Presenting Author: Michael Edelstein
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: Psycho-Social impacts are often excluded from analysis, biasing decisions and forcing public comment to fill the gap. Approaches for bringing such impacts into EIA are given.
Presenting Author: Helen Ross
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment as an element of your work
Summary Statement: ‘Influence diagrams’ built by community members show how psychosocial impacts arise in climate change, along pathways connecting climate with environmental, then social and psychosocial impa
Presenting Author: Shiu Fung Hung
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: This paper use cases in Hong Kong to examine the opportunities and challenges on public participation in the speeded-up information exchange in the digital age.
Presenting Author: Tsz-yin Chau
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: The presentation will share how the public participation is involved in the Hong Kong statutory EIA process by studying an EIA case in Hong Kong.
Presenting Author: Ali Rahmat Kurniawan
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: This paper will describe the attitudes of indigenous people towards the effectiveness of social, economic, cultural, and environmental implementation program supported by nickel smelter
Presenting Author: Angeles Mendoza Sammet
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: This presentation focuses on the role that the online registries of environmental agencies have on supporting public participation, access to information and transparency.
Presenting Author: Andrew Rodrigues
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility works with the IAIA to ensure the key principles of open data publishing are integrated within EIA processes.
Presenting Author: Eugenio Napoli
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: In 20-30 years, challenges are expected in some developing countries for management of PV panel waste streams on decommissioning of large numbers of solar PV plants..
Presenting Author: Virginia King
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: This presentation will provide an overview of HEA and demonstrate positive aspects of its application in concert with collection of big data to appropriately quantify baseline of potential p
Presenting Author: Akira TANAKA
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: This study proposes a quantitative evaluation method applicable to biodiversity offset and biodiversity banking through applying HEP and HSI models on the effects of management of secondary
Presenting Author: Tetsuya Kamijo
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: A quantitative text analysis to the minutes of meetings revealed the actual discussion of alternatives.
Presenting Author: Enkhchimeg Battsengel
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: To assess human risk assessment of heavy metals in soil and will make decision making for risk management based on their characteristics of lifestyle of the living environment.
Presenting Author: Reece Alberts
Preferred Session: Addressing reprisal risks in impact assessments
Summary Statement: The paper aims to re-think the fundamentals of EIA through the identification of key assumptions underlying EIA evaluation.
Presenting Author: David Annandale
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: This paper discusses the nature of recent developments in the environmental and social safeguard systems of multi-lateral donors.
Presenting Author: Javier Martin Herrero
Preferred Session: Evaluación del impacto sobre la Biodiversidad y RN2000 en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Not provided.
Presenting Author: rong yao
Preferred Session: We are connected: Integrating global interlinkages in impact assessments
Summary Statement: To reduce the possibility of B&R environmental risk, China and B&R countries should strengthen relevant regulations and fulfill the signed international environmental treaty obligations.
Presenting Author: Sandra Rodrigues
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Check out how a 10-year data series of continuous monitoring, collision risk models and adaptive management allows to reduce uncertainty in IA
Presenting Author: Dickens Kamugisha
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Effective application of ESIA supported by good governance and political will can help avoid or mitigate environmental threats in any country.
Presenting Author: Fiona Haigh
Preferred Session: New learning approaches for HIA capacity strengthening
Summary Statement: This paper reflects on experiences of developing and implementing a multi-level HIA capacity building framework and includes a number of case studies.
Presenting Author: Emilio Roos
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: A case study showing the divergences of the licensing process for Wind Farms in two different regions of Brazil (North and South), reflecting both biological, social and EIA differences.
Presenting Author: Manishankar Prasad
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: This paper attempts to shed light on current practices in the project level governance arena regarding public participation through Omani case studies.
Presenting Author: Paulo Cardoso
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Using cross-continental case studies we upscale the impact assessment in AIA from individuals to populations. The framework can reduce arbitrariness and incorporate uncertainty to better inf
Presenting Author: Jeff Geipel
Preferred Session: Local content development: Advances in approaches, tools, and governance
Summary Statement: This presentation will cover the increasing demands on major projects and operations to maximise local procurement of goods and services, and how proponents can use information-sharing to dr
Presenting Author: Ayano Takeuchi
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: This on-sight research contributes to establishment of SIA scheme for onshore wind energy project in Japan.
Presenting Author: Chong Meng
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: An multi-objective programming model for spatial holistic optimization of regional industrial upgrading strategies and water resources-environment management under uncertainties.
Presenting Author: Ji-Yong Park
Preferred Session: Impact Assessments for Smart Cities - Trending Adoption of Technologies
Summary Statement: An Analysis of Research Trends on Disaster Resilience Technologies for Hazard Mitigation of Smart Cities
Presenting Author: Ryo Fujikura
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: The resettlers were at first faced hardship due to non-performance of the compensation by the government. But later, they successfully secure their income by fish breeding or palm plantation
Presenting Author: Redley Opasa
Preferred Session: Governance improvements in Pacific Island impact assessment
Summary Statement: Fruit flies are ecologically important insects in New Guinean rainforest and are used as indicator group for forest ecosystem assessment. It shows response to elevation and forest types.
Presenting Author: Chaniga Laitae
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: The case study of Riceberry project demonstrates a generic view on how the contributions of an agricultural research to impact pathway are generated through the various types of research act
Presenting Author: Ulla Mörtberg
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Wind power meets climate goals but may impact on biodiversity. The REWIND-GIS tool is developed for strategic wind power planning, integrating biodiversity issues to sustain local planning.
Presenting Author: Colette Curran
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Using infrastructure project examples, this paper will explore the pros and cons of different ESAP/EPAP styles.
Presenting Author: Cho Nam Ng
Preferred Session: Impact Assessments for Smart Cities - Trending Adoption of Technologies
Summary Statement: This paper shares the authors’ experience in promoting awareness of the multiple functions and intrinsic value of rivers in Hong Kong through an interactive GIS-based database.
Presenting Author: Gabriel Petuel
Preferred Session: Exploring the need to shake up biodiversity offset theory and application
Summary Statement: Spontaneous secondary succession after cleared rainforest in New Guinea included 85 alien species, most diverse at 1000 – 1500 but limited to secondary vegetation, not invading surrounding p
Presenting Author: Urmila Jha Thakur
Preferred Session: Capacity enhancement: Building human capital for promoting natural capital
Summary Statement: Investigating capacity development gaps in developing countries and formulating recommendations for improving them.
Presenting Author: Robert K. Mugo
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: This paper presents a case study of EIAs conducted for two hydropower projects in East Africa, community grievances encountered and recommendations for addressing community concerns.
Presenting Author: Jan-Albert Wessels
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) may aid National Parks to achieve responsible tourism principles within a developing country context..
Presenting Author: Katie Schmitz Eulitt
Preferred Session: Best practices in implementing sustainable finance
Summary Statement: As sustainability landscape continues to change, SASB’s industry-specific standards allow investors to truly understand risk and value underpinning their investments.
Presenting Author: Christina Rehbein
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Landscape ecology science can enhance biodiversity assessment in IA. Challenges and opportunities for linking science and practice are explored from a Canadian regulatory perspective.
Presenting Author: Jenny Pope
Preferred Session: Importance of science, evidence, and meaningful engagement for IA decisions
Summary Statement: EIA in Western Australia is focused on the biophysical environment, with an emphasis on robust, science-based analysis against a framework of environmental factors and objectives, promoting
Presenting Author: Lachlan Wilkinson
Preferred Session: Importance of science, evidence, and meaningful engagement for IA decisions
Summary Statement: This presentation reports on a survey of government regulators on the extent to which scientific, community and Indigenous knowledge are considered in impact assessment in Australia.
Presenting Author: Sachihiko Harashina
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: SDGs movements led by economic organizations in Japan might go wrong way. The paper illustrates the history of IA in Japan and reviews the IA systems to really achieve SDGs.
Presenting Author: Edy Blom
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: Capacity development on potentially powerful tools ESIA and SEA for making fact-based, inclusive, accountable decisions may not bring envisaged improvement if they are not common practice
Presenting Author: Garry Middle
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: The effectiveness of two SEAs in Pilbara, Australia, on iron ore mining: an informal one by the environmental agency and a formal SEA of BHP Billiton’s future operations.
Presenting Author: Andrew Mariki
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: In this we share SEA experience in Tanzania, where SEA is still a very new practice; the approaches used to implement SEA multistakeholders engagement, the challenges and what worked well
Presenting Author: Hans de Vries
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: The SEA for the National Strategy on Spatial Planning and the Environment in The Netherlands and the tiering of this plan with lower levels of planning will be presented.
Presenting Author: Yaw Amoyaw-Osei
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: Major challenges attend the offshore oil and gas sector in Ghana, exposing gaps in the SEA for the sector. Key lessons are explored to help improve future SEAs.
Presenting Author: José J. Diez-Rodríguez
Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
Summary Statement: Proposal of a geo-collaborative tool to support decision-making with regards to the spatial location of regional climate change impacts aimed at reducing conditions of vulnerability.
Presenting Author: Mamadou KARAMA
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: The main purpose of this presentation is to show how SEA and ESIA are effective tools for promoting inclusive and sustainable governance of natural resources at the landscapes level.
Presenting Author: Who-Seung Lee
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Using the spatial distribution map of seabirds breeding near offshore windfarm, I showed how the map can be applied to evaluate the location for offshore windfarms in EIA/SEA strategically.
Presenting Author: Miguel Espichan
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: Senace: The peruvian experience, problems, challenges, issues, actions, in the development New Peru's environmental assessment institutional model.
Presenting Author: Chaogang Wang
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: The presentation will focus on the benefit sharing in designing development projects involving use of natural resources including concept, principles, monetary and non-monetary mechanisms, operational steps and efforts needed in the future.
Presenting Author: Paola Gomez-Priego
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: SIGnificance, a digital tool that translates expert judgment into meaningful representations for stakeholders during a collaborative determination of impact significance.
Presenting Author: Barry Wiesner
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: In view of climate change, Carbon Footprint Assessment should be included in the EIA processs to provide mitigation measures that directly reduce GHG emmissions and thus impacts on climate c
Presenting Author: Olga Sidorenko
Preferred Session: Beginning with the end in mind
Summary Statement: Lessons learned in assessing the social attitudes toward modern small-deposit mining paradigm for a European context
Presenting Author: Irge Satiroglu
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Drawing on examples from three countries, this paper discusses comprehensive livelihood restoration strategies that recognise vulnerability as well as “project-induced disadvantages”.
Presenting Author: Massimo Zanasso
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: Implementing Environmental Monitoring through Citizens Involvement is a way to earn the trust of neighboring Communities and to execute Project activities more efficiently.
Presenting Author: Timothy John Peirson-Smith
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: A critique of conventional ‘top-down’ and novel community-based ‘bottom-up’ Public Participation approaches and its impact in fostering greater public satisfaction in development projects.
Presenting Author: Takako HASHIMOTO
Preferred Session: Developing a Smart Impact Assessment Act: A hypothetical
Summary Statement: As Minister for Smart Technology, in this panel, I try to ensure that the proposed act properly acknowledges and makes provision for the use of technologies, in IA procedures.
Presenting Author: Elisapeta Roreta Areta
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: An improvement for EIA procedure in Samoa for infrastructural projects in the Renewable Energy sector should be discussed.
Presenting Author: Jianliang Xiao
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Assessment of two resettlement case studies for hydropower projects in Laos and Albania to explore mechanisms for benefit sharing as part of resettlement governance frameworks.
Presenting Author: Paula Uscátegui
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Attempts to promote smarter and more streamlined ESHIA regulations show government´s efforts and interest to improve decision making and incentivize economic activity in the region.
Presenting Author: Min Jung Kwon
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: This paper examines the value-added of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework approach in preventing, minimizing, and mitigating environmental pollution impacts.
Presenting Author: Sabelo B Nkosi
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: These environmental initiatives in eThekwini Municipality show what other local governments could adopt; the initiatives are considered to improve IA participation and decision making; and s
Presenting Author: Laxmi Prasad Subedi
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: The paper presents strategy used in Asian Development Bank financed project to improve livelihood, their impacts, pros and cons and rural urban linkage and resettlement governance framework.
Presenting Author: David Wright
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
Summary Statement: This presentation explores emerging roles and uses of the social cost of carbon as a tool to integrate climate change into impact assessment, offering insights into key considerations.
Presenting Author: Javier Avila
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: Anthropologist with experience in preparation, evaluation and supervision of social issues of EIA in extractive investment projects, citizen participation processes and social conflicts
Presenting Author: Hadi Barghamadi
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Social impacts of a challenging renovation and revitalization program of a historic and cultural worn-out texture from change management perspective
Presenting Author: Katya Puga
Preferred Session: What is the real extent of social impacts of renewable energy projects?
Summary Statement: The study offers a route for effectively address social impacts by analyzing 150 cases of solar and wind projects in Mexico with a territorial based approach.
Presenting Author: Iain Todd
Preferred Session: Impact of offshore renewables on human communities
Summary Statement: This paper assesses the social impacts of a recent major offshore wind farm, now operational off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Presenting Author: F. JAVIER HIDALGO
Preferred Session: Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: Estado del arte y experiencias en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Adequate combination of technical analysis and integration with the EIA allows to establish a Social Acceptance Monitoring Program and make a project compatible with its social environment
Presenting Author: Ruilian Zhang
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: Social Stability Risk Assessment: Status, trends and prospects
Presenting Author: Alessia Gagliardo
Preferred Session: What is the real extent of social impacts of renewable energy projects?
Summary Statement: Community resistance against renewable energy projects as a consequence of conflicts generated from the need to share the limited socio-economic benefits associated with their development.
Presenting Author: Constantino Mwembela
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: This paper analyzes SEA and ESIA cases from Zambia and draw lessons for community participation, stakeholder dialogue and decision making.
Presenting Author: Tomás B. Ramos
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: Develops a conceptual framework supporting a stakeholder-driven SEA processes, where stakeholders contribute to the design, data gathering, effects assessment and monitoring of SEA process.
Presenting Author: Youngsoo LEE
Preferred Session: New learning approaches for HIA capacity strengthening
Summary Statement: We made hazard map to facilitate industrial complex development project and suggested several measures for protection of human health.
Presenting Author: Jane Munday
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Reducing conflict with a people-centred model of assessment: including strategic values mapping, co-designed and rights-based engagement and respect for cultural knowledge and authority.
Presenting Author: Ariel Cuschnir
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Strategic online database and tools developed through multi-stakeholder collaboration to help reduce cumulative impacts of the wind energy sector on migratory birds across Patagonia
Presenting Author: Alicia Pedrozo
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: Insights and lessons learned from the strengthening of institutional capacities for strategic decision making process in Paraguay
Presenting Author: David Wilson
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Cumulative biodiversity impacts from wind energy are an increasing concern, but face limitation in current assessment approaches and knowledge: here we explore some of the challenges and pot
Presenting Author: Muhammad Irfan Essop
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: A discussion on the development of Renewable Energy Zones implemented by the Department of Environmental Affairs in South Africa to assist developers and promote sustainable development.
Presenting Author: James Beard
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: This paper explores how Mott MacDonald have been working to strengthen SIA to make a tangible impact on decision-making and contribute to socially inclusive project outcomes.
Presenting Author: Mario Mesarić
Preferred Session: How does EIA influence decision making in the oil and gas sector?
Summary Statement: Study for protection of marine species, during well operations, was defined and included measurement of abiotic factors, modelling of noise propagation and potential impact on species.
Presenting Author: Tie Wu
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: Taking the iron and steel industry as an example, analyzed the current situation and existing problems about the technical systems on EIA and permit system, and proposed some suggestions.
Presenting Author: hui sun
Preferred Session: China’s EIA process: Reshape and connection with pollutant discharge
Summary Statement: VOCs emission sources are numerous and huge, which is the key point and the in controlling PECP. So, VOCs must follow the control idea of source-process-end-management in PECP.
Presenting Author: Manuel Ramón García Sánchez-Colomer
Preferred Session: Effectiveness of the EIA of transport in the dawn of Anthropocene
Summary Statement: Until now the environmental impact of roads on pollinator communities was off-road, but a smartening impact assessment must evaluate it from the car. Introducing the new insect collector.
Presenting Author: Miltos Ladikas
Preferred Session: Technology assessments and IAs: Distant relatives or different species?
Summary Statement: Miltos Ladikas, Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Presenting Author: Jiří Dusík
Preferred Session: Technology assessments and IAs: Distant relatives or different species?
Summary Statement: Jiří Dusík, Integra Consulting Ltd., Czech Republic
Presenting Author: Isabelle Kim
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Practical challenges of supply chain management and labour rights on international infrastructure projects are thematically explored, drawing from SIA and monitoring experience.
Presenting Author: Madalena Dray
Preferred Session: Benefit sharing: Enablers, mitigation, conflicts, and sustainability
Summary Statement: Temporary or permanent suspension of large hydropower projects results in social impacts that shall be mitigated but may also create opportunities to enhance benefits to locals.
Presenting Author: Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea
Preferred Session: Advancements in environmental and social policies of the European IFIs
Summary Statement: Under the InvestEU Regulation, investments will undergo a sustainability proofing. Which are the environmental requirements of the proofing and how will they be implemented?
Presenting Author: Helena Viñes Fiestas
Preferred Session: EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan: key aspects for IFIs and IA practitioners
Summary Statement: The focus will be on how the latest sustainable finance developments impact asset managers and how service providers, including IA practitioners and verifiers, can cater the industry needs.
Presenting Author: Akeem Bello
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: This paper presents the IUFMP experience in procurement and ESHS interactions and recommends the way forward for improved interactions between ESHS and Procurement
Presenting Author: Giles Totona
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Experiences from long term community engagement using resource mapping process establish conservation areas as part of biodiversity offset program for the PNGLNG project.
Presenting Author: Leonel Vega
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: The SEIA methodology optimizes the methodologies of environmental impact assessment, in the public-institutional, economic, social and environmental context of each country.
Presenting Author: Charles Kelly
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: The use of tailings dam is challenged by recent failures. Environmental assessments define failure risks and reduction measures. But are tailings EAs good disaster management plans compared
Presenting Author: ASLI OZALTAN
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: TANAP Project, with its tailored-livelihood restoration strategies and benefit sharing mechanism implemented in a culturally appropriate way, succeeded in going beyond the current practice.
Presenting Author: Gianluca Cassulo
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: The World Bank launched an innovative project in Ethiopia, aimed at de-risking investments for wind development through early assessment of key technical, biodiversity and social aspects
Presenting Author: Patrícia Rodrigues
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: This communication will resume the session, systematizing key topics in using technological solutions and the handling of big data in biodiversity assessment and impact evaluation.
Presenting Author: Rinie van Est
Preferred Session: Technology assessment of artificial intelligence
Summary Statement: The Dutch discourse on AI developed in the wake of earlier debates on robotization and digitization. An overview is given of the Technology Assessment activities of the Rathenau Instituut in these fields and their impact.
Presenting Author: Julia Hahn
Preferred Session: Introduction to Technology Assessment Processes
Summary Statement: Technology Asssesment and participatory methods towards a global level
Presenting Author: Leonhard Hennen
Preferred Session: Introduction to Technology Assessment Processes
Summary Statement: Technology Assessment and its twofold character as scientific analysis of social implications of technology and as a framework for social deliberation on normatively loaded questions.
Presenting Author: Patrick Francis
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: This session will invite creative thinking for better tools, technologies and approaches for delivering improved environmental and social performance on large infrastructure projects.
Presenting Author: Kyle Armstrong
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: In PNG, bioacoustic recordings and genome-scale genetics-based identification tools have led to more refined knowledge in environmental impact assessment and monitoring.
Presenting Author: Yaddy Ruiz
Preferred Session: Utilización de tecnología en labores de Seguimiento y Vigilancia (Seminario Iberoamericano - Session in Spanish. Submissions in English Accepted)
Summary Statement:
Presenting Author: Ximena Fuentes Torrijo
Preferred Session: We are connected: Integrating global interlinkages in impact assessments
Summary Statement: This paper explores how TEIA can be undertaken without major amendments to existing national legislation.
Presenting Author: Yewande Aramide Awe
Preferred Session: Listening with technology: deepening the impact of impact assessments
Summary Statement: The paper argues that in low-income countries, non-existent or weak ground-level air quality monitoring networks combined with lacking or inadequate quality assurance and quality control measures undermine the reliability of forecasting of environmental impact of ambient air pollution.
Presenting Author: Jessica Thorn
Preferred Session: Impact assessment of large-scale linear infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Participatory scenario planning as a tool to inform SEA processes in development corridor planning
Presenting Author: Mark Westbury
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: Impact assessments should make use of baseline information and feedback provided by stakeholders, but it is vital that this information is reported in an appropriate manner.
Presenting Author: Justin Cutajar
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: A multiple lines of evidence approach for the aquatic ecology impact assessment of the Fundão dam failure.
Presenting Author: Anita Mosby
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Giving better context to a community setting during an impact assessment, informs decision makers on what livelihood programs to design, develop and implement.
Presenting Author: Sophus zu Ermgassen
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: Is it possible to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 (develop infrastructure networks) without sacrificing Goals 14 and 15 (ending biodiversity loss)? What role for No Net Loss policies?
Presenting Author: Sophie Theriault
Preferred Session: Implementing FPIC through the IA processes
Summary Statement: This paper critically examines the newly enacted Canadian impact Assessment Act in order to evaluate its potential in terms of implementing FPIC.
Presenting Author: Mark Proctor
Preferred Session: Beginning with the end in mind
Summary Statement: It looks at European wide research through INFACT and marries it with doctoral research into the mining sector and communities in Serbia, in-order to illustrate general and country specific
Presenting Author: Victoria Marquez-Mees
Preferred Session: IFIs and adoption of lessons learned through their accountability functions
Summary Statement: Focus on how an IAM compliance review can contribute to greater IFI awareness of E&S impacts in the community and better identification and mitigation through the project cycle.
Presenting Author: Hannah Temple
Preferred Session: Listening with technology: deepening the impact of impact assessments
Summary Statement: twentyfifty has led many HRIAs across the world. We will share our experience of the two core challenges that unite each assessment and the ways in which we are learning to address them.
Presenting Author: Thierry Rodon
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: In this paper, we look at two Indigenous-led IA process in Canada and we assess the challenge but also the opportunities created by these processes.
Presenting Author: Marcia Grisotti Marcia grisotti
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: This paper focus on problems related to the construction of causal relations in the emergence of diseases or injuries in thecontext of construction of the Belo Monte dam, Brazilian Amazon
Presenting Author: Armando Garcia Chiang
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: An overview is presented on the evolution of environmental and social impact assessments within the energy sector in Mexico
Presenting Author: Anne Dansey
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: The governance of the commons: this policy analysis explores the development of export and trade growth strategies in a carbon constrained and UNSDG goal context.
Presenting Author: Orna Joyce
Preferred Session: New directions in livelihood restoration in project design and beyond
Summary Statement: This paper presents an introduction to the Graduation Approach, an internationally acclaimed methodology for holistic livelihoods restoration.
Presenting Author: Paul Hardcastle
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: The presentation reflects the importance of tiering in environmental assessment in South Africa as a developing country, to ensure that environmental impact assessments deliver sustainable d
Presenting Author: Silvia Sayuri Mandai
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: We will discuss how biodiversity was included into Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the state of São Paulo, exploring the potential of EIA in promoting biological conservation.
Presenting Author: Emily Nunn
Preferred Session: What is the real extent of social impacts of renewable energy projects?
Summary Statement: Solar developers’ lack of capacity on social impact management threatens to delay or derail projects that do not meet international lender requirements. How can we address this disconnect?
Presenting Author: Peter Long
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Marine LEFT (www.marineleft.ox.ac.uk) is a web-based environmental decision support tool which provides data on patterns of biodiversity, ecosystem service provision, environmental processes
Presenting Author: Colin Filer
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: The four independent states of Melanesia are struggling to find effective legal solutions to the problems of dispossession and displacement in urban and peri-urban areas.
Presenting Author: Louise Them Kjølholm
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: Presentation of EKF’s innovative digital monitoring process and how it is used in practice. Discussions on benefits and challenges for consultants in performing Digital Impact Assessments.
Presenting Author: SANG HEE LEE
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: This study is designed to evaluate the reliability of the acute fish toxicity projected with 2 QSAR programs and the effects of the phy-chem properties on the reliability.
Presenting Author: Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: This paper highlights the political aspects of strategic environmental assessments and what it means for the implementation and effectiveness of SEA in transport planning.
Presenting Author: Roxanne Greene
Preferred Session: Reconciliation and conflict transformation using impact assessment
Summary Statement: This is the story of Shoal Lake 40, a community that was once an isolated and dying community, is now blooming into a community hopeful for its economic future for the next generations.
Presenting Author: Tayphasavanh FENGTHONG
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: Lao PDR has made a progress of HIA implementation since 2006 up to present in the context of approval of HIA policy, guideline including HIA implementation in many areas.
Presenting Author: Claire Gronow
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: ESIA procedure is derived from the technical-rational model of decision-making and positivist science but this does not reflect reality, and helps to explain lack of effectiveness of ESIA.
Presenting Author: DAN ADINO
Preferred Session: Benefit sharing: Enablers, mitigation, conflicts, and sustainability
Summary Statement: The objective of this paper is to analyze the role of benefit sharing in infrastructure development as a new approach to sustainable development .
Presenting Author: Christopher Ibeh
Preferred Session: Benefit sharing: Enablers, mitigation, conflicts, and sustainability
Summary Statement: Significant improvements on achieving the SDGs can be achieved by good Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and strict adherence to regulations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Presenting Author: Adriana Loureiro
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: Strategic considerations on neighbourhood environmental factors to promote population mental health in Lisbon Region must be accounted in the decision-making processes under local planning
Presenting Author: Olivia Rumble
Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: The South African Climate Change Bill and the role of law in mainstreaming climate change considerations into impact assessment and development planning: a developing country perspective
Presenting Author: Dee Fischer
Preferred Session: Using spatial web-enabled tools for environmental screening: Pros and cons?
Summary Statement: This paper discusses an online web-based environmental screening tool which has been introduced to assist with decision making on environmental impact assessments in South Africa.
Presenting Author: Edward John
Preferred Session: Implementing UNDRIP into IA for better decisions
Summary Statement: First Nations in Canada are working to ensure the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is used in Canadian law.
Presenting Author: Inga-Lill Aronsson
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
Summary Statement: Ethnography, as method(s) and theory, is explored and put in relation to the policy safeguards´ discourse in order to support a renegotiated social order within the community for a viable so
Presenting Author: Ricardo Tomé
Preferred Session: Biodiversity and wind energy: improving practice using a strategic approach
Summary Statement: Comparison of scenarios using radar and/or observers in the evaluation of potential impacts on birds from the construction of wind farms and in the operational mitigation of such impacts.
Presenting Author: Lise Bitsch
Preferred Session: Technology assessment of artificial intelligence
Summary Statement: Citizen engagement, democracy, AI, digital tools, ethics, rights social cohesion
Presenting Author: Luis Martins Dias
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: Three years after the digital EIA, several examples of digital reports have appeared. What are the results? Are we making progress? Where should we further develop?
Presenting Author: Alan Ehrlich
Preferred Session: Indigenous Peoples
Summary Statement: This talk explores how to use systems thinking to assess impacts of projects on interconnected socio-ecological systems involving Indigenous peoples.
Presenting Author: Katherine Cumming
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: Nesting SEA’s of national park management plans has resulted in more effective assessment of landscape connectivity at multiple scales, including in project EIA.
Presenting Author: Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: This work aims at investigating the horizontal and vertical tiering between urban plans and projects, especially considering the ES approach in documents of a big city in the global south.
Presenting Author: Charlotta Faith-Ell
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: This paper explores the role of effective tiering based on three types of timing in tiering: sequential, parallel and overlapping based on High Speed Rail cases in Sweden and Estonia.
Presenting Author: Kwadwo Adusei-Asante
Preferred Session: Addressing reprisal risks in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Our paper argues that an fits all gender impact assessment model will not work in all settings
Presenting Author: Mheda Garcia
Preferred Session: Citizen science iInvolvement and resident-driven impact assessment
Summary Statement: This work proposes and tests a holistic evaluation questionnaire to the PEISS, which is one of the oldest EIA systems in the world.
Presenting Author: Dzarina Susuke
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: Traditional ecological knowledge of cassowary (Cassuarius) conservation, in the montane forest of PNG: Taking on the bio-cultural approach.
Presenting Author: MARIA CELESTE PIÑERA
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: In 2016 Argentina took a fundamental turn to regulate the role and procedures for federal EIA, promoting the cooperation with provinces and strengthening evidence-based decision-making.
Presenting Author: Floor Schreurs
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Transformative health governance involves coordination with collaborative, experimental, adaptive and reflexive arrangements, enabling conditions to HIA uptake in strategic actions.
Presenting Author: Gordon Appleby
Preferred Session: Participation and grievance resolution in involuntary resettlement
Summary Statement: How participation, grievances, and monitoring inform management decisions at a major mine.
Presenting Author: Zsolt Szilvácsku
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: During my research of SEAs I identified eight fundamental premises for the Leadership in SEA and preconditions to prevent traps and to create flows during the the SEA process.
Presenting Author: Tanvir Ahmed
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: We aim to understand the prevailing status of fines levied for environmental pollution in Bangladesh and how the fines are distributed across different violation types and industrial sectors
Presenting Author: Clara Barby
Preferred Session: Best practices in implementing sustainable finance
Summary Statement: Chief Executive of the Impact Management Project (IMP), Clara Barby, will talk about the latest in impact investing and its relevance for all asset classes and all types of investor.
Presenting Author: Joëlle Pastora Sala
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: A respected Elder, a lawyer and an academic consider expectations of IA, including purpose, process and substance, to build respectful, meaningful decision-making
Presenting Author: Mirko Winkler
Preferred Session: Smartening health and well-being in IA: From policies to projects
Summary Statement: This updated international guidance provides refined core values of HIA and places emphasis on the different types of HIA currently practiced globally.
Presenting Author: Jose Campuzano
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: Use drones and GIS technology have become critical tools as spatial decision-support system when managing complex surveying projects as O&G 2D Seismic Campaign in the Epirus Region of Greece
Presenting Author: Esperança da Costa
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Key words: flora, degradation, threatened species, QGIS, conservation
Presenting Author: Andy Chung
Preferred Session: Impact Assessments for Smart Cities - Trending Adoption of Technologies
Summary Statement: Explores how virtual reality and artificial intelligence can be used to present outcomes of impact assessment.
Presenting Author: Andrea Farnham
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: We present a new spatial analysis method using national data from DHIS2 to evaluate the impact of large natural resource extraction projects on health in low and middle-income countries.
Presenting Author: Andrew Cauldwell
Preferred Session: Assessing significance: Practical lessons from global IA projects
Summary Statement: Natural habitats are defined by ecological function and species diversity. Ecological function gets overlooked, yet there are suitable high level indicators for measuring the achievement of
Presenting Author: Alice Davies
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: A case study of a 35km overland conveyor (OLC) for a mining project & the effective use of the mitigation hierarchy to avoid negative impacts and enhance positive ones during project design.
Presenting Author: Katie Hirono
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: This presentation will examine how HIA can be used as a participatory process for achieving health equity through comparison of two cases in Wales and Australia.
Presenting Author: Liz Green
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: This paper describes how HIA has been embedded in Wales and how it can support the translation of the SDGs into practice
Presenting Author: Tosin Oso
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: The identification of social impacts of flooding requiring protective and preventive measures can be carried out using the strategic environmental and social assessment approach
Presenting Author: Jeannie Raharimampionona
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and the landscape approach: The added value of SEA and ES
Summary Statement: A trial application of the SEA planning approach seeks to demonstrate how it can complement and enhance existing landscape planning tools as currently used in Madagascar.
Presenting Author: Eri Gianferrara
Preferred Session: Catch the worm! Early biodiversity risk screening for impact assessment
Summary Statement: This presentation sets out an approach using GIS and remote sensing to allow users to seamlessly integrate biodiversity and natural capital into the early stages of impact assessments.
Presenting Author: Jocelyn Narokai
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: A description of how EMPNG is using data visualization technology for waste management, and how that has helped to identify potential areas of improvement through adaptive management.
Presenting Author: Jaiho Oh
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: To overcome a limitation in the current environmental impact assessment a virtual observation technique has been introduced in this paper.
Presenting Author: Josh Fothergill
Preferred Session: Capacity enhancement: Building human capital for promoting natural capital
Summary Statement: Josh will reflect on how national scale IA practice & ESG progress can be catalyzed by small well designed capacity building programmes, with N.Ireland, Scotland & Nepal case examples.
Presenting Author: Paola Quijano
Preferred Session: How does EIA influence decision making in the oil and gas sector?
Summary Statement: Oil and Gas companies sharing visual tools in the preparation of ESIAs to help in the development of technical capabilities on Environmental Regulators in developing countries.
Presenting Author: Ana Roque de Oliveira
Preferred Session: Visual tools in public participation: Why? How to design? Who to involve?
Summary Statement: A recent survey on the use of visual tools in EIA public participation highlights their technical, social and cultural features, and the importance of public involvement in their design.
Presenting Author: ANAK KARNPISIT
Preferred Session: Visual tools in public participation: Why? How to design? Who to involve?
Summary Statement: Mitigations maybe not understand by some stakeholders, so PTT proposes visualized mitigations for enhancing public participation in EIA of upcoming natural gas distribution piping project.
Presenting Author: Andy Thomas
Preferred Session: Visual tools in public participation: Why? How to design? Who to involve?
Summary Statement: The benefits of applying visual tools in public participation are globally applicable and are fast becoming best practice. We discuss case studies from across the EMEA region.
Presenting Author: Birgitta Liljedahl
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: VR (virtual reality) and serious gaming are applied to improve assessment of threats towards dams, with upstream and downstream impacts.
Presenting Author: Alice Guimaraes
Preferred Session: Benefit sharing: Enablers, mitigation, conflicts, and sustainability
Summary Statement: The study conducted the analysis of the EA process for mining projects in three Canadian jurisdictions in order to identify transparency vulnerabilities and accountability gaps