Following is a list of IAIA20 Annual Conference paper & presentation abstracts.
Total Abstracts 475
Presenting Author: Brenna MacNeil
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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: Meelan Thondoo
Coauthor(s): De Vries Daniel Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
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: Patricia Gutierrez
Coauthor(s): Kay Bergamini
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: Giulia Carbone
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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
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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: Keisuke GOTO
Coauthor(s): Asahi ABE Yuki INOUE Akira TANAKA
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: Jacques Demajorovic
Coauthor(s): Antonio Aledo Gisela Gerotto Viviane Pisano AnaLucia Santiago
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: Stephen Edwards
Coauthor(s): Luis Sanchez
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
Coauthor(s): Alan Bond Reece Alberts Cilliers Dirk Francois Retief
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: Gina Barbieri
Coauthor(s): Osvaldo Gratacos Shaza Zeinelabdin
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
Coauthor(s): Andrea Farnham Fritz Brugger Mirko Winkler
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: Dr. Ratika Thakur
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Preferred Session: Impact assessment practitioners as change agents?
Summary Statement: An SIA professional is the soul of a development project, who guides the way for holistic implementation of the process and ideally mitigates negative impacts and disparity whatsoever. The n
Presenting Author: Sara Bice
Coauthor(s): Kirsty Jones Kirsty O'Connell
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
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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
Coauthor(s): João Claro
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
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
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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: Janis Shandro
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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
Coauthor(s): M. A. K. Azad
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
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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: John Sinclair
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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
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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: Karen Costello
Coauthor(s): Teresa Meadows Mark Ings
Preferred Session: Consultation in the time of COVID19
Summary Statement: The NIRB continues to look for improvements to its process in response to changing public health measures while fulfilling its mandate.
Presenting Author: Robert Montgomery
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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
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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: Mihai Coroi
Coauthor(s): Ben O'Hickey Matthew Hanson Laura Kor
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 MartÃn-Olmedo
Coauthor(s): Ben Cave Julia Nowacki IAIA Health Section EUPHA HIA Section
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: Francis Sakato
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Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: The PNG Government aims to increase electricity access to 70% by 2030. A practical way forward is through off-grid renewable energy solutions and empowering local participation.
Presenting Author: Amy Sexton
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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
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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
Coauthor(s): WENJIN YANG
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: Ji Won Kim
Coauthor(s): Sang Chul Hwang Seung Jae Lee Min Su Bum Jungkyu Choi
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: Quan Tjon-Akon
Coauthor(s): Farzia Hausil
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: Kiichiro Hayashi
Coauthor(s): Ferdinando Villa stefano balbi
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
Coauthor(s): wu baojian lv wei qi shuo
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: Patrick Schwing
Coauthor(s): Bryan O'Malley Rebekka Larson Gregg Brooks
Preferred Session: EIA and Deep Sea Mining
Summary Statement: This presentation will identify key lessons learned, tools developed, and existing working groups from deepwater petroleum exploration beneficial for deepwater mining implementation.
Presenting Author: Hanna Kalliolevo
Coauthor(s): Ascelin Gordon Roshan Sharma Sarah Bekessy
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: Arend Kolhoff
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Preferred Session: Strategic Planning for Hydropower with Environmental and Social Values
Summary Statement: This presentation will showcase Strategic Environmental Assessments around the world and their value towards planning for hydropower development.
Presenting Author: SOPHORN SEK
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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
Coauthor(s): Marta Dias Margarita Robaina
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
Coauthor(s): Kevin Hanna Bram Noble
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
Coauthor(s): Tobias Nyumba
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
Coauthor(s): Kate Mansfield Amanda Annand
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
Coauthor(s): Luis Sánchez
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: Galina Williams
Coauthor(s): Jayanath Ananda
Preferred Session: Data-driven health impact assessment
Summary Statement: The purpose of this research is to assess the regional differences in socio-economic indicators using key economic, social and health drivers.
Presenting Author: Charla Patterson
Coauthor(s): Jochen Jaeger
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: Constantina-Alina Hossu
Coauthor(s): Cristina-Gabriela Mitincu Andreea Nita
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Our study evaluates the quality of EIARs in Romania and suggest ways to address their main shortcomings in order to enhance policy decisions regarding the environment.
Presenting Author: Geetha Ramesh
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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
Coauthor(s): Daniela Janssen Frank Hees
Preferred Session: Effectiveness of the EIA of transport in the dawn of Anthropocene
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: Audrius Sabūnas
Coauthor(s): Nobuhito Mori
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: Gemma Holdsworth
Coauthor(s): 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: ARTURO FARIAS
Coauthor(s): GENOVEVA RAZETO
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
Coauthor(s): Conrad Savy
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 RÃo
Coauthor(s): Juan Requejo Javier Blázquez
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: Dolores Koenig
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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
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Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
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
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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: Yanina Ramirez
Coauthor(s): Celia Cáceres David Guerrero Marielena Lucen
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
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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
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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
Coauthor(s): Juliana Siqueira-Gay Bárbara Souza
Preferred Session: Prioritizing landscape connectivity in environmental impact assessment
Summary Statement: Regional landscape analysis of offsets implemented in a mine project shows the contribution of jointly considering connectivity alongside biodiversity metrics.
Presenting Author: Pablo Cardinale
Coauthor(s): Leeanne Alonso Kate Lazarus
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: Wolfgang Wende
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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
Coauthor(s): Roberto Mezzalama Kyle Knopff Massimo Dragan Beyza Kozak Michele Fernetti
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: Rebecca Hall
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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: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: How can an IA practitioner influence decisions in the oil and gas industry?
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Presenting Author: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: Hits of the 21st Century (thus far) for smartening impact assessment
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Presenting Author: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: Toward an IAIA special publication on independence in IA
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Presenting Author: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: The contribution of impact assessment to achieving the SDGs
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Presenting Author: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: Global benefits, local impacts: Social performance of renewable energy
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Presenting Author: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: IA and climate change actions and next steps: IAIA20 Seville
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Presenting Author: Jen Howell
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Preferred Session: Aashukan continues: Envisioning Indigenous capacity and engagement in IA
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Presenting Author: Marianne Schuerhoff
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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: Sophie Grinnell
Coauthor(s): Katie Hirono Tatiana Lin
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
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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
Coauthor(s): Thomas Fischer Alan Bond
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: Caroline Brodeur
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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: Anthony Kung
Coauthor(s): Christina Newport
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
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: Chen Chen
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Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement I: Benefit sharing and livelihoods
Summary Statement: Public-good projects can create physical and economic displacement and other social impacts. Projects alone can hardly benefit local communities. Other stakeholder should be involved.
Presenting Author: Marla Orenstein
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Preferred Session: New models of IA and climate change law worldwide
Summary Statement: Canada enacted a new impact assessment law in 2019 that includes assessment of GHG emissions. Is this the right place for federal decision-making on climate change?
Presenting Author: Bill Ross
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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
Coauthor(s): VINOD B. MATHUR
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
Coauthor(s): Asha Rajvanshi
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: Banak Gamui
Coauthor(s): Jane Mogina
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: Christina Guillemette
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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
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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
Coauthor(s): Edward Pollard Malcolm Starkey
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
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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
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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
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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: Yi Su
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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: Alessandra Benevides
Coauthor(s): Selma Singulano
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
Coauthor(s): Daniela Debone
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: Richard Morgan
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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
Coauthor(s): Simone Miraglia
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
Coauthor(s): Junho Maeng Taeyoon Kim Kwangwoo Cho
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: Bryan Jenkins
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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
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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: Tanapon Phenrat
Coauthor(s): Ashijya Otwong
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: Seungyeon Lee
Coauthor(s): Seongwoo Jeon Hyun Chan Sung
Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
Summary Statement: Conserving the urban ecosystem requires the proper environmental policy and delicate development plan.
Presenting Author: Berit Balfors
Coauthor(s): Kristina Lundberg Tobias Robinson Karolina Isaksson Ulrika Gunnarsson Östling Linnea Eriksson
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
Coauthor(s): Kai Shang
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
Coauthor(s): Lucie Guillet
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
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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: Tokunbo Olorundami
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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
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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
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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 MartÃn Herrero
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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: Maria EspÃrito Santo
Coauthor(s): Pedro Bettencourt Maria Grade César Jesus Annel Phiri Mwiche Kabwe
Preferred Session: Operating in emerging countries with high biological and cultural diversity
Summary Statement: Conservation planning for sustainable resource use and management of impacts from mining and local uses on a wetland and its catchment, through an integrated and ecosystems-based approach.
Presenting Author: Cássio Ingles de Sousa
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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: Alexandra Blood
Coauthor(s): Christine Charles Piers Gillespie
Preferred Session: Consultation in the time of COVID19
Summary Statement: Consultation has had to endure in the energy and mining sector during COVID 19 with physical distancing. How can consultation be undertaken that respects power dynamics within such an env?
Presenting Author: Lara Mottee
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Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: This paper argues that for good practice IA to be effectively implemented in urban contexts, systematic adjustments to apply adaptive planning, management and governance are needed.
Presenting Author: Lies van Campen
Coauthor(s): Frans Dotinga
Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
Summary Statement: In this presentation we share our experiences on the contribution of SEA to the development of national water management policy. Recommended for SEA experts and governmental policy makers.
Presenting Author: Daniel Stuckless
Coauthor(s): Margaret Luker Robin Johnstone Yvonne Wright
Preferred Session: Can impact assessment contribute to Indigenous sustainable livelihoods?
Summary Statement: Fort McKay Metis 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 Fort McKay’s livelihood could be sustained if the project is approved.
Presenting Author: Martin Haefele
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Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
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: Rebecca Nelson
Coauthor(s): L.M. Shirley
Preferred Session: General best practice principles for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Legal recognition of the need to consider cumulative environmental effects at the individual project scale is almost ubiquitous around the world. It is undoubtedly a best practice for all.
Presenting Author: Pedro Bettencourt
Coauthor(s): Cláudia Fulgêncio
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Main conflicts of a set of mining projects in the province of Tete (Mozambique), and ways of mitigation, as part of a cumulative impact assessment
Presenting Author: Atsushi Hamamoto
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Prasanna Lal Das
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: Laurens Reumers
Coauthor(s): Marleen Bekker Henk Hilderink Maria Jansen Jan-Kees Helderman Dirk Ruwaard
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Akira TANAKA
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
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: Tomoya MARUYAMA
Coauthor(s): Ayano TAKEUCHI
Preferred Session: What is the real extent of social impacts of renewable energy projects?
Summary Statement: This paper discusses to analyze the role of deliberation to develop the ownership and the positive attitude towards woody biomass boilers (WBBs).
Presenting Author: Kate Gannon
Coauthor(s):
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: Sara Bjørn Aaen
Coauthor(s): Helle Nedergaard Nielsen Ivar Lyhne
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: BERTA RODRÃGUEZ
Coauthor(s): IÑIGO SOBRINI SAGASTAETA DE ILURDOZ EVA RODRIGUEZ RABADAN
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, asà como la restauración del área a su estado natural en un entorno RN2000.
Presenting Author: WEI LI
Coauthor(s):
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: Glenn Brown
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Capacity enhancement: Building human capital for promoting natural capital
Summary Statement: Tools of careful argument help IA professionals clarify the evidence and analysis in their reasoning, including difficult steps of identifying & defending values of environmental components.
Presenting Author: Phil Seeto
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Ja young Jeon Pradeep Adhikari
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
Coauthor(s): Myungsu Yu Hyeokgyun Yoo Okjin Jung
Preferred Session: Impacts and Adaptation
Summary Statement: Development of integrated model for climate change assessment using meta models will be presented
Presenting Author: Takehiko Murayama
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Matthew Hanson
Coauthor(s): Mihai Coroi Tom Ruff Brian O'Connor
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
Coauthor(s): Paul Eijssen Hans Vries, de
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Ivar Lyhne
Coauthor(s): Lone Kørnøv Ulf Kjellerup
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: Chris Gentle
Coauthor(s): Tom Hatton Paul Vogel Erica Smyth Nicole Lockwood Chris Moran
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
Coauthor(s): Ignacio Marticorena Jaime Cabrera Moreno
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Julie Becker
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Best practices in implementing sustainable finance
Summary Statement: This presentation focuses on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and its efforts and experience in promoting sustainable finance and facilitating sustainable investment worldwide through LGX.
Presenting Author: Snowy Makhudu
Coauthor(s): Jacqui Hex
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
Coauthor(s):
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 developmentâ€. The 2019 update reflects lessons learnt and emerging E&S issues
Presenting Author: Laura Chaverra
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: The results of the ecological compensation plan execution for the Hydroelectrical Ituango Project (Colombia) is going to be presented as a part of the environmental management measures
Presenting Author: Maya Gabriela Villaluz
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Collaboration to enhance availability and access to biodiversity data
Summary Statement: Paper summarizes policy papers using ecosystem accounts to determine social, economic and environmental trade-offs.
Presenting Author: Michael Clarke
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: EIA and Deep Sea Mining
Summary Statement: This paper describes a framework for how the ecosystem approach can be applied to a deep-sea polymetallic mining operation in the northern Pacific. The framework embodies holistic environmen
Presenting Author: Adrian Flynn
Coauthor(s): Giorgia Cecino
Preferred Session: EIA and Deep Sea Mining
Summary Statement: A new paradigm in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment is required for permitting of deep-sea mining. Ecosystem-based approaches provide a framework to support best practice.
Presenting Author: Jeanne Ellis
Coauthor(s): Louise Flynn
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: Felix Sternath
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Ivar Lyhne
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: Anders Ekbom
Coauthor(s): Anna Francis Olsson Gunilla Ölund Wingqvist Daniel Slunge Emelie César
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: Francisco Javier Hidalgo
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Impact assessment, structural agent in socio-environmental conflict zones
Summary Statement: Analysis of the Colombian case, considering the realities in countries of the region, regarding the management of the structural problems of the territorial context and the EIA
Presenting Author: WILLIAM WARD
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Maria Jose Carreras
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
Coauthor(s): Julio Soria-Lara Luisa Batista Michela le Pira Aldo Arranz-López Giuseppe Inturri
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
Coauthor(s): Maarten P.M. Vanhove Anne-Julie Rochette Luc Janssens de Bisthoven Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Nico Koedam
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 Ãngel Casermeiro
Coauthor(s): Maria Calle Algarra Encarnación Moreno Eduardo
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: Fernanda Nobre
Coauthor(s): Carla Duarte
Preferred Session: Listening with technology: deepening the impact of impact assessments
Summary Statement: We present a review about the adoption of technologies in EIA: Big Data, AI, Machine learning, Data Visualization, Blockchain, Smart Contract, and Digital Stakeholders’ Engagement.
Presenting Author: Edgar Buhanga
Coauthor(s):
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: Emelda Adii
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Professor Thomas. B Fischer
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Agness Musutu
Coauthor(s): Constantino Mwembela Sharon George
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: Raphael Msagha
Coauthor(s): Elena Bosoni Filippo Uberti Erasmo Macera Giada Namer
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: Ryan Barry
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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 NikaÄević
Coauthor(s): Snežana Lekić RaÅ¡ović Andrija NikaÄević SaÅ¡a Å ipka Vladimir Mitrović Andrew Jamieson
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: Michael Minkoff
Coauthor(s): Mandy George Erika Clesceri Emilia Wahlstrom
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
Coauthor(s): John Glasson Bridget Durning Kellie Welch
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
Coauthor(s): Ainhoa Gonzalez
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: Ramzy Salih
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Environmental Development Assessment (EDA) a new approcah
Summary Statement: Environmental Development Assessment as a new approach for EIA
Presenting Author: Pablo Baranao
Coauthor(s): Sara Grez
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: Alana Lajoie-O’Malley
Coauthor(s): Kelly Bronson Gwendolyn Blue
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Mariano Oliveros
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Karin Nunan Noam Raffel
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
Coauthor(s): Rosa Pinho
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. ¿DeberÃa la evaluación de impacto de un proyecto referirse a este tema?
Presenting Author: Eva Pagán
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: The energy transition
Summary Statement: Director General of the Transmission, Red Eléctrica de España, Spain
Presenting Author: Miguel Ãngel Zapata Mateo
Coauthor(s): Óscar Fayanas Buey Rafael Doñate Abril Enrique Marco Benito
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: El Ãndice 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: Theunis Meyer
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Understanding environmental auditing effectiveness is vital in EIA effectiveness. An evaluation framework for environmental auditing effectiveness will be presented.
Presenting Author: Bridget Durning
Coauthor(s): John Glasson Kellie Welch Tokunbo Olorundami
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
Coauthor(s): Mike Mackay
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: Luisa Nunes Ramaldes
Coauthor(s): Marcelo Montaño Evandro Mateus Moretto Daniela Arpini Boni Pereira
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: Josh Fothergill
Coauthor(s): Jo Murphy
Preferred Session: We are connected: Integrating global interlinkages in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Identifying current perspectives of the circular economy among IA professionals, before looking at the potential roles current IA practice could play in enabling and understanding the consequences of progress toward a circular economy.
Presenting Author: Hugo Rainey
Coauthor(s): Ray Victurine Fabien Quetier Kerry ten Kate Hugo Costa
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
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
Coauthor(s): Isabel Lavadenz
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Bert Enserink
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
Coauthor(s): Sam Koyama
Preferred Session: Indigenous Peoples
Summary Statement: Fisheries studies undertaken during construction of the PNG LNG project indicated no long-term negative socio-economic impacts.
Presenting Author: Emily Bever
Coauthor(s): Katie Hirono Jimmy Dills Ruth Lindberg Sandra Whitehead
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: Gina Martin
Coauthor(s): Jacqui Hex
Preferred Session: Connecting IA, monitoring, and evaluation through adaptive planning
Summary Statement: The EAP’s role in mine planning and mine closure as an integration specialist, allowing for early risk identification in projects and for predicting closure requirements.
Presenting Author: Mariana Rodrigues Ribeiros dos Santos
Coauthor(s): Aline França Ferreira Souza
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Jackie Lerner
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Gender in 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: Dilek Barlas
Coauthor(s): Mark Goldsmith Imrana Jalal Charles Di Leva
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: Jamie Skinner
Coauthor(s):
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: Dick van Straaten
Coauthor(s):
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: Paula Dobbelaar
Coauthor(s): 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
Coauthor(s): Ben Cave Angela Filipas Tea Aulavuo Julia Nowacki
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Marcus Chilaka
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Matilde Alexandra Rodrigues Simone Georges El Khouri Miraglia
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: Elvira DomÃnguez Ares
Coauthor(s): Carlos Iglesias Merchán
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: Athanasios-Alexandru Gavrilidis
Coauthor(s): Andreea Niță Ramiro Berardo Stacey Fineran
Preferred Session: Public participation in the Digital Age: Are we hearing you?
Summary Statement: Our paper discusses Covid19’s negative impact on the conduct of public meetings at which participation of stakeholders is essential to inform decision making and to achieve sustainability.
Presenting Author: Atiyah Curmally
Coauthor(s): Susan Holleran Carlos Arias
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
Coauthor(s): Anders C. Erichsen
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): David Hunter
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: Marcelo Montaño
Coauthor(s): 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: Andrea MacLeod
Coauthor(s):
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: Alphonse Habineza
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Improving environmental and social performance of infrastructure projects
Summary Statement: Challenges hindering the mitigation measures effectiveness are thoroughly reviewed and perspective approaches enabling positive environmental and social outcomes are provided
Presenting Author: Lea Esterhuizen
Coauthor(s):
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: Sérgio Moreira
Coauthor(s):
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: Behzad Raissiyan
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Larissa Luy
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
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
Coauthor(s): Adriana Maria Eftimie Craig Sugden
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
Coauthor(s): Sookjin Jeon Jong-Min Oh
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: Federica Sodré
Coauthor(s): Mariana Pinheiro Carolina Maria Heliodora Caroline Freitas Elisângela Almeida Botelho, Grace; Espécie, Mariana; Rosenthal, Vinicius
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Sara Bice
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: Brady Reid
Coauthor(s):
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: Anne-Claire Tiphaine Guilhermi Olivera
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Gender in 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: John Glasson
Coauthor(s): Bridget Durning Kellie Welch Tokundo Olorundami
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
Coauthor(s): Claire Elverum
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Kate Lazarus Pablo Cardinale
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: Julio Trujillo Segura
Coauthor(s):
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: Debbie Chan
Coauthor(s):
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: Enrique Arturo Oyarzún Iglesias
Coauthor(s): 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: Clémence Naré
Coauthor(s):
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: Josep Maria Torrents Abad
Coauthor(s): Irene MartÃn Montes
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
Coauthor(s): Maya Gislason Vanessa Sloan Morgan Chris Buse Margot Parkes
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: Marvic Angélica Rico Gallegos
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Rachel Olson
Coauthor(s): Michel Bérubé Member of an Indigenous Community in Canada
Preferred Session: Integrating Indigenous rights and knowledges into impact assessment
Summary Statement: Members of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s Advisory Committees present approaches to effectively weaving together Indigenous knowledge and western science in impact assessments.
Presenting Author: Bengt Pettersson
Coauthor(s): Gerald Inglangasuk
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: George Edema Taako
Coauthor(s): Kiemo Karatu Edward Andama
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
Coauthor(s): BELLO ETIENNE
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
Coauthor(s): Judith Muhomba
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: Meinhard Doelle
Coauthor(s):
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: Emmanuel Garbolino
Coauthor(s): Guillermo Hinojos-Mendoza Cesar Arturo Gutierrez Ramos Jessica Mariscal Guerra Liliana Jáquez FrÃas Dulce MarÃa Heredia Corral
Preferred Session: Peer learning on integration of climate change in development programs
Summary Statement: ASES proposes a toolbox in order to assess the potential evolution of biodiversity and environment of the baseline scenario according to climate change at very high spatial resolution.
Presenting Author: Rob Nieuwenhuis
Coauthor(s): Francois Tetero Remy Mugunga
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: Christopher Bowles
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Colette Spagnuolo Candida Cianci
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: Canada has developed a new, efficient approach to integrate the regulatory processes for major energy projects into federal impact assessments.
Presenting Author: Celesa Horvath
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Marco Gutierrez
Coauthor(s):
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: Lars Soeftestad
Coauthor(s): Steve Gorzula Rajan K. Shrestha
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: Carolyn Cameron
Coauthor(s):
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: Roel Slootweg
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: Social Development
Presenting Author: Ismael Aznar
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: The energy transition
Summary Statement: Director General for Environmental Quality and Assessment at the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge Spain.
Presenting Author: James Lea-Cox
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Reform of EsIA implementation for greater efficiency and effectiveness
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: Kate Lazarus
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Strategic Planning for Hydropower with Environmental and Social Values
Summary Statement: This presentation will show IFC's approaches to addressing strategic planning.
Presenting Author: Suzanne Cotillon
Coauthor(s): Fabien Quétier Catherine André
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
Coauthor(s): Duncan Oyaro Robert Bos Salim Vohra James Kambo
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Dirk Cilliers
Coauthor(s): Theunis Meyer Francois Retief Reece Alberts Claudine Roos
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: This paper applies the Theory of Change (ToC) method to critically reflect on the South African EMF system (similar to SEA) and identify the key assumptions underlying its effectiveness
Presenting Author: Adina Relicovschi
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Advancements in environmental and social policies of the European IFIs
Summary Statement: In 2021, the EU Bank will be reviewing its E&S Sustainability Framework that set the policy context for mainstreaming sustainability into its investments. What are the key updates?
Presenting Author: Kenji Ogura
Coauthor(s): Tetsuya Otani
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: Jayden Hyman
Coauthor(s): Rodney Stewart Oz Sahin
Preferred Session: EIA and Deep Sea Mining
Summary Statement: Addressing uncertainty in deep-sea mining projects using adaptive management: concepts, approach, and tools to move from theory to practice
Presenting Author: Patricia Fitzpatrick
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Jessica Perritt Sarah Hirschorn Alexander Blyth
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: Gwendolyn Wellmann
Coauthor(s):
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: Abhishek Singh
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Kate Mansfield
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: General best practice principles for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Considering well-being in EIA is difficult yet important. The Review Board developed guidelines for assessing impacts on people with a focus on well-being. This presentation shares lessons l
Presenting Author: Anna Giné March
Coauthor(s): Maite Morteruel Elena Aldasoro
Preferred Session: Strengthening IA through inter-governmental cooperation
Summary Statement: Using Health Impact Assessment and Health Equity Lens to move forward Health in All Policies approach: Experiences from the Basque Country.
Presenting Author: Anarmaa Sharkhuu
Coauthor(s): Bayarjargal Batsukh Miles Scott-Brown
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Neal Barker
Coauthor(s):
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: Brian Ndirangu
Coauthor(s): Remi Moncel Peter Chapman Julia Bucknall Victor Mosoti Maninder Gill
Preferred Session: Reform of EsIA implementation for greater efficiency and effectiveness
Summary Statement: This presentation will share findings from a World Bank Literature Review of Good Practices in National Systems for ESIA.
Presenting Author: Ana Maria Esteves
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Takumi Nagashima
Coauthor(s): Takehiko Murayama Shigeo Nishikizawa
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: HANG NGUYEN
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Smarter governance in resettlement II: Rights, risks, and responsibilities
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: Jiri Dusik
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Advancements in environmental and social policies of the European IFIs
Summary Statement: Experience from mainstreaming of environmental and climate change issues into EU cooperation programmes with its European partner countries: successes and critical factors for the road ahead
Presenting Author: George Hegmann
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: David Vexler
Coauthor(s):
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 GarcÃa Nielsen
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Anna Johnston
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Sladjana Cosic
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
Coauthor(s): Edward Pollard Suzanne Livingstone
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: Stanley Lau
Coauthor(s): 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: Alex Cisneros
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Conflict or agreement: Role of impact assessment in managing conflicts
Summary Statement: Discussion on the potential mediation effect of recognizing pre-existing community grievances: the case of SIAs for offshore exploratory O&G and fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico
Presenting Author: Xiaochen Zhang
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): VANESSA RODRÃGUEZ
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
Coauthor(s): Christina 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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Indigenous Peoples
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
Coauthor(s): Caroline Freitas Elisângela Almeida Mariana Espécie Mariana Pinheiro
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
Coauthor(s): PatrÃcia Rodrigues
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
Coauthor(s): Peter Shadie
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guidelines for world heritage
Summary Statement: Conservation Officer, IUCN World Heritage Programme
Presenting Author: Gerardo Leunda
Coauthor(s): Guillermo Dias Wilfredo Mendoza Caballero Sheila Romero Moreno Catherine Sahley Elena Mendoza Saldivar
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
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
Coauthor(s): Japhet Kashaigili Pantaleo Munishi Lawrence Mwambo
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
Coauthor(s): Riza Harizajudin Rudolf Abrauw
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
Coauthor(s): Silvia Feria
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
Coauthor(s): Yesenia Patricia Segura Milla
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: Bobbi Schijf
Coauthor(s): Peter Tarr
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: Haisuo Wu
Coauthor(s): Jian Liu
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: Paolo Pucillo
Coauthor(s): Antonino Cuzzola Martina Gardoni Claudia Caracciolo Petar Djurovic Vassilis Tsetoglou
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: Clara Ribeiro
Coauthor(s): Miguel Coutinho Carlos Borrego Alexandra Silva Fernando Leão Túlio Paiva
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 GarcÃa
Coauthor(s):
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: Cristiano Vilardo
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Smartening biodiversity offsets: Opportunities in technology and governance
Summary Statement: Marine biodiversity faces increasing conservation challenges. EIA of offshore activities can be of great value to marine biodiversity conservation, but data management needs to be improved.
Presenting Author: Mark Ross
Coauthor(s): Ruth Eales Karl Fuller
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: Anders Finstad
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Collaboration to enhance availability and access to biodiversity data
Summary Statement: To further implementation of technological solutions, there is also a need for both cultural changes and improvements in data management capacity of ecologists to equip the society with open and transparent knowledge from the field.
Presenting Author: Juan Palerm
Coauthor(s): 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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Carlos Alonso RODRIGUEZ PARDO
Coauthor(s): Silvia VANEGAS PINZON
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: The design of a new environmental licensing model in Colombia. Learned lessons and key contributions towards sustainable development.
Presenting Author: Treacy Roberts
Coauthor(s):
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: Luke Strickland
Coauthor(s): Katarzyna Fedyk Magdalena Wilczek
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: Susan Joyce
Coauthor(s): Deanna Kemp
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: Paul Wilkinson
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Emerging issues in ESG risk management
Summary Statement: Water Security, Climate Risk and Environmental consultant with ESIA experience across the private and public sectors in the UK, Australia and South East Asia
Presenting Author: Jane Singer
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Integrating climate change into IA: Key design elements
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: Jeffrey Jacquet
Coauthor(s): Richard Stedman
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
Coauthor(s): Angela Gurnell Geraldene Wharton
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
Coauthor(s): Susan Scott
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: Tamara Hochstrasser
Coauthor(s): Florence Renou-Wilson
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Best practices in implementing sustainable finance
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: Richard Mackay
Coauthor(s):
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: Xinxin Qiu
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Gijs Hoevenaars
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
Coauthor(s): Qiuandra Taylor Esther Sophia Rust
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
Coauthor(s): Santiago González
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 polÃtico y administrativo Español.
Presenting Author: Michael Edelstein
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Thomas Fischer
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Virginia King
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Takafumi KAWAMURA
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Reece Alberts
Coauthor(s): Francois Retief
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
Coauthor(s): Darko 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: Pilar Muela Garcia
Coauthor(s): Ãñigo Achúcarro Leguina Ana Delgado EchevarrÃa 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
Coauthor(s): yuan zhu xiufeng sui
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
Coauthor(s): LuÃs Rosa Helena Coelho Miguel Mascarenhas
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: Emilio Roos
Coauthor(s): João Paula Helena Coelho Paulo Cardoso Miguel Mascarenhas Gustavo Simon
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: David Burack
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Digital impact assessment: The latest developments
Summary Statement: COVID-19 travel restrictions were overcome utilizing an international team and telecommunications technology to prepare the required environmental documentation on time and with cost savings.
Presenting Author: Paulo Cardoso
Coauthor(s): Joana Ribeiro Helena Coelho Miguel Mascarenhas
Preferred Session: Benefit sharing: Enablers, mitigation, conflicts, and sustainability
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Ryoko Ishii
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
Coauthor(s): Wei Li
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
Coauthor(s): Hyungjun Park Dalbyul Lee Juchul Jung
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: An analysis of research trends on disaster resilience technologies for hazard mitigation of smart cities.
Presenting Author: Andreea Nita
Coauthor(s): Stacey Fineran Laurentiu Rozylowicz
Preferred Session: EIA
Summary Statement: Our results could help rethink the EIA collaborative process leading it towards more sustainable holistic planning by learning from past experiences, best practices, and public attitudes.
Presenting Author: Ryo Fujikura
Coauthor(s): Syafruddin Karimi
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: Chaniga Laitae
Coauthor(s): Laurens Klerkx Valentina Materia
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
Coauthor(s): Deepa Manolan Kandy Vincent Wretling Berit Balfors
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: Gisa Vos
Coauthor(s): Jos Arts
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: Critical discussion of the current planning and EIA practice in the Netherlands and the need to consider socioeconomic status in participation for assessing and addressing social impacts.
Presenting Author: Enkhchimeg Battsengel
Coauthor(s):
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: Pippa Howard
Coauthor(s): Nicky Jenner Twyla Holland Guy Parker
Preferred Session: EIA and Deep Sea Mining
Summary Statement: The findings of an extensive assessment of the risks and impacts of seabed mining on marine ecosystems providing a mitigation hierarchy framework for EIA, decision makers, project proponent
Presenting Author: Gabriel Petuel
Coauthor(s): Vojtech Novotny Osia Gideon Francesca Dem
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Rosa Arce-Ruiz
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: The energy transition
Summary Statement: Associate Professor of the Department of Transport, Territory and Urbanism Engineering of the E.T.S.I. de Caminos, C.P., Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
Presenting Author: Jan-Albert Wessels
Coauthor(s): Anneli Douglas
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Lachlan Wilkinson
Coauthor(s): Howard Smith
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: Edy Blom
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
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: Andrew Mariki
Coauthor(s):
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: Yaw Amoyaw-Osei
Coauthor(s):
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: Tamara Maricic
Coauthor(s): Mirko Popovic Sabina Ivanovic
Preferred Session: Trends of impact assessment in developing countries
Summary Statement: Analysis of achievements & problems in SEA legislation & current practice in Serbia, with planned adjustments. Proposal of improvements based on experience of experts & competent authorities
Presenting Author: Mamadou KARAMA
Coauthor(s): Edy BLOM Giel HENDRIKS
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: Miguel Espichan
Coauthor(s):
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: Santiago Caceres
Coauthor(s): Javier Gomez Guillermo Aleixandre
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: This paper presents, in addition to the justification, a proposal for the integration of the SIA in the development of an engineering project, an area where balanced decisions are needed.
Presenting Author: Grace Eunyoung Lee
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Stopped on social impacts: How can SIA contribute to balanced decisions?
Summary Statement: Mere strengthening community engagement procedures is insufficient for better social acceptance of development projects in South Korea. Comprehensive SIA integration into EIA needs to be con
Presenting Author: Paola Gomez-Priego
Coauthor(s): Luis Antonio Bojorquez-Tapia Fidel Serrano-Candela
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: Olga Sidorenko
Coauthor(s): Rauno Sairinen
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: Massimo Zanasso
Coauthor(s): Elena Pasquali Daniele Bettini Riccardo Roberto Sergio Maria Sementini
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: Elisapeta Roreta Areta
Coauthor(s): Toru Matsumoto
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Grace Russell
Coauthor(s): Paula Uscátegui Dean Slocum Atma Khalsa
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
Coauthor(s): Brian Kamau Ndirangu Julia Bucknall Ernesto Sanchez-Triana
Preferred Session: Reform of EsIA implementation for greater efficiency and effectiveness
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: Angus Morrison-Saunders
Coauthor(s): Jos Arts
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Follow-up is essential for learning and determining the outcomes of ESIA. This paper will learning aabout practice from current applications and the newly revised IAIA best practice principl
Presenting Author: David Wright
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Iain Todd
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): M. ESTHER VALDIVIA
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: Constantino Mwembela
Coauthor(s): Agness Musutu
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: Mamoud Abubakar
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Consultation in the time of COVID19
Summary Statement: Virtual consultations with rural community in Nigeria during the COVID-19 lockdown
Presenting Author: Tomás B. Ramos
Coauthor(s): Rita Domingues André Mascarenhas Alexandra Polido
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: Jane Munday
Coauthor(s):
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: Alicia Pedrozo
Coauthor(s): Guillermo López Karim Musálem
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
Coauthor(s): Leon Bennun Edward Pollard
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: Maria Partidario
Coauthor(s): Juan José RodrÃguez Nancy Chauca
Preferred Session: Progress and challenges of impact assessment in Latin America
Summary Statement: The practice of SEA in Perú is seeking innovative ways through strategic thinking based SEA to encourage integration and sustainability through planning decisions
Presenting Author: James Beard
Coauthor(s): Sarah Marshall Corinne Marti Samantha Waugh
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
Coauthor(s): Dražan Skelin Draško Holcer Nikolina Rako Gospić Miroslav Perić Diana Prpić
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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 GarcÃa Sánchez-Colomer
Coauthor(s): Óscar GarcÃa Tuesta Alejandra Franco Saldarriaga
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: Pierre Gouws
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Sérgio Moreira
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Giles Totona
Coauthor(s):
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: Iván Honorato
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Riesgos y vulnerabilidades (CONEIA - Spanish submissions only)
Summary Statement: This research seeks to visualize the systemic risks associated with the environmental assessment process and environmental licenses, using public information.
Presenting Author: Charles Kelly
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): BARBAROS HASAN TOSUN
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: PatrÃcia Rodrigues
Coauthor(s): Daniel Pires Vitor Rodrigues Diogo Barros Pedro Silva
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: Patrick Francis
Coauthor(s):
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: Juan Pablo ArÃstegui Sierra
Coauthor(s): 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: Jessica Thorn
Coauthor(s): rob Marchant
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
Coauthor(s): Manuel Rodriguez Brito
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
Coauthor(s): Simon Drummon
Preferred Session: Without health there is nothing: Institutionalizing HIA for the SDGs
Summary Statement: A multiple lines of evidence approach for the aquatic ecology impact assessment of the Fundão dam failure.
Presenting Author: Sophie Theriault
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Zoë Croom
Coauthor(s):
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: Armando Garcia Chiang
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Peter Parbery
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: Agata Kosieradzka-Federczyk
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Encouraging advances in IA public participation practice
Summary Statement: The study concerns the determination of the real impact of public participation on EIA decision-making process.
Presenting Author: Silvia Sayuri Mandai
Coauthor(s): Marcelo Marini Pereira de Souza
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: Peter Long
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling
Coauthor(s): Berit Balfors Linnea Eriksson Karolina Isaksson Kristina Lundberg Tobias Robinson
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: Claire Gronow
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: Reform of EsIA implementation for greater efficiency and effectiveness
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Adriana Loureiro
Coauthor(s): Maria do Rosário Partidário Paula Santana
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: Alexandra Polido
Coauthor(s): Lone Kørnøv
Preferred Session: SEA (TBD)
Summary Statement: Reviews power relations in SEA to understand theoretical and empirical implications for SEA effectiveness, identifying trends supporting the need to redirect its conceptual attention.
Presenting Author: Mariana Ruiz Alvarado
Coauthor(s):
Preferred Session: The importance of COVID-19 and other zoonotic diseases in impact assessment
Summary Statement: Land use changes are the primary transmission pathway for EID. Mass migration, energy, transport and food-security policies, programmes and projects need to integrate risks of EID.
Presenting Author: Inga-Lill Aronsson
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Alexandre Leitão Filipe Canário Nadine Pires Nuno Vieira Ricardo Oliveira
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: Bart Barten
Coauthor(s): Luis Martins Dias Paul Eijssen
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
Coauthor(s):
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: Charlotta Faith-Ell
Coauthor(s): Jos Arts
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
Coauthor(s): Sonam Pelden
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: Terry Calmeyer
Coauthor(s): Sandra Balcombe
Preferred Session: Community participation in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Personal experience of integrating MÄori perspectives in decision-making relating to processing of environmental consents for oil and gas activities in New Zealand’s offshore waters.
Presenting Author: Paulo Andrés PEREZ ALVAREZ
Coauthor(s): Laura Bibiana GAITAN LOPEZ Diego Alejandro MARTINEZ BALLESTEROS
Preferred Session: Impact assessment, structural agent in socio-environmental conflict zones
Summary Statement: The rise of socio-environmental conflicts in Colombia has been a matter of concern. ANLA is approaching this challenge taking actions towards the positive transformation of conflicts.
Presenting Author: Mheda Garcia
Coauthor(s): Maria Victoria Espaldon Enrique Pacardo Antonio Alcantara Josefina Dizon
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
Coauthor(s): Paige West Enock Kale
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: Floor Schreurs
Coauthor(s): Marleen Bekker Jan-Kees Helderman Maria Jansen Dirk Ruwaard
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: Zsolt Szilvácsku
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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: Takafumi Kawamura
Coauthor(s): Takeru Shiroki Akira Tanaka
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, spatial and sustainable EA
Summary Statement: We identified trends in offsetting practices and the obstacles to mandating offsetting in Japan. We concluded that the Japanese government still faces obstacles for mandating offsetting.
Presenting Author: Tanvir Ahmed
Coauthor(s): Md. Quamrul Hasan Mohammad Osman Sarwar
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: Chris Buse
Coauthor(s): Rob Friberg Lauren Arnold Kevin Hanna
Preferred Session: SEA effectiveness: Getting more out of less
Summary Statement: SEA effectiveness for integrating environmental, community and health values. Hear about areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.
Presenting Author: Mirko Winkler
Coauthor(s): Francesca Villiani Astrid Knoblauch Peter Furu
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: Esperança da Costa
Coauthor(s): Daniel Piris Tomásia Adão
Preferred Session: Digital technologies for biodiversity assessment and monitoring
Summary Statement: Key words: flora, degradation, threatened species, QGIS, conservation
Presenting Author: Andrew Cauldwell
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Emily Harris
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: Liz Green
Coauthor(s):
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
Coauthor(s): Bola Dada Adeolu Ojo Evelyn Adesina Michael Ilesanmi Dayo Ayorinde
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: Jocelyn Narokai
Coauthor(s):
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: Jill Blakley
Coauthor(s): Bram Noble Karen Vella Jerome Marty
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: We investigate valued component selection in regional-scale impact assessment in Canada to evaluate the potential to streamline project assessment and improve decision-making at that level.
Presenting Author: Jaiho Oh
Coauthor(s): Ji-Han Shim Ji-Won Oh Morang Hur
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: Isolina Sanchez
Coauthor(s): Sonia Cuesta Doris Domingo
Preferred Session: Consultation in the time of COVID19
Summary Statement: Our paper will cover a how-to guide to virtual consultations with adaptable approaches for different contexts, best practices, common pitfalls and lessons learned.
Presenting Author: Paola Quijano
Coauthor(s): José Campuzano Pablo Guinea Javier Odriozola Begoña Rodrigo Ferran Climent
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
Coauthor(s): Maria Partidário
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: Jose Corraliza
Coauthor(s): 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: Sumia Mohamed
Coauthor(s): Dr. Stacey Fineran
Preferred Session: Disaster, conflict and crisis: Are impacts being Identified?
Summary Statement: A Vulnerability and Impact Assessment paper for the Eastern Nile Basin to identify appropriate Nature-based Solutions (NbS) interventions in response to the climate crisis.
Presenting Author: Julio Diaz Cruz
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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: Caroline Brodeur
Coauthor(s): Scott Sellwood Ian Thomson Maria Ezpeleta Sarah Zoen
Preferred Session: Gender in impact assessment: Experiences and perspectives
Summary Statement: Drawing from our experiences in community-based HRIAs and gender impact assessments, Oxfam will share lessons and suggest key principles for fostering gender-responsive assessment processes.
Presenting Author: Heikki Kalle
Coauthor(s): Charlotta Faith-Ell Jos Arts
Preferred Session: The evolution of the tiering concept: Connecting IA and planning levels
Summary Statement: In EA tiering, information is handed over. Discussion focuses mostly on ‘how’ tiering works. This paper focusses on the little-addressed issue of ‘what’ information is handed in tiering?
Presenting Author: Kay Bergamini
Coauthor(s): José Hernández
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: It analyzes the environmental inspection and sanction in Chile which can be approached from the Environmental Impact Assessment's Environmental Licenses or by the object of environmental pro
Presenting Author: Carlos Iglesias-Merchan
Coauthor(s): Piedad Martin-Olmedo Elvira DomÃnguez-Ares
Preferred Session: Evaluación de Impacto en Salud: Estado del arte y experiencias en España (CONEIA - Spanish Submissions Only)
Summary Statement: Despite Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has been incorporated to the Spanish legal system 8 years ago, there is quite limited knowledge of HIA among both practitioners and the general public.
Presenting Author: Rupert Duckworth
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Preferred Session: Decision making and environmental assessment
Summary Statement: Early engagement with IA processes can deliver good outcomes. This paper focuses on why, how and what IA needs to provide decision makers to enable them to make the right and best decisions
Presenting Author: Alberto Fonseca
Coauthor(s): Robert Gibson
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: This presentation explores the reasons why EIA occasionally rejects projects and discusses the criteria that underpin such decisions in the empirical contexts of Canada and Brazil.
Presenting Author: Romina Aramburu Muñoz-Najar
Coauthor(s): Lori Anna Conzo
Preferred Session: Impact assessment guideline for wildlife-friendly renewable energies
Summary Statement: A first-of-kind guideline to assist wind energy developers, government agencies and academia in the assessment and management of impacts to birds and bats in Latin America.
Presenting Author: Yasmine Pagni
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Preferred Session: Emerging issues in ESG risk management
Summary Statement: In this presentation, the EIB will share perspectives on emerging issues in ESG risk management, focusing on social aspects.
Presenting Author: Kay Bergamini
Coauthor(s): Cristian Pérez Gino Araya
Preferred Session: Enforcement and compliance of environmental and social impact assessment
Summary Statement: Relationship between Environmental Compliance Management Model with EIA and enforcement and monitoring practices is discussed, similar to Yin & Yang two opposing and complementary forces.