NZAIA promotes the use of impact assessment methods in relevant areas of public and private sector decision-making, to protect social, cultural and environmental values.
What is Impact Assessment?
Impact assessment is the process of examining the potential implications of an action for the natural environment and on people (their health and wellbeing, and their social, cultural and economic activities and values). Impact assessment is a decision support method and one of the most important tools we have for safeguarding the environment and people.
There are many different kinds of impact assessment – including social, ecological, cultural, landscape, health, economic, strategic assessments. Impact assessments require technical expertise and skills.
Impact assessment can be applied at the project level (eg a specific infrastructure proposal), the policy level (eg a proposed Plan Change) or the strategic level (eg a National or Regional Policy Statement).
There are many different kinds of impact assessment – including social, ecological, cultural, landscape, health, economic, strategic assessments. Impact assessments require technical expertise and skills.
Impact assessment can be applied at the project level (eg a specific infrastructure proposal), the policy level (eg a proposed Plan Change) or the strategic level (eg a National or Regional Policy Statement).
#NZAIA19 Keynote Speakers
Chlöe Swarbrick, MP and Kosi Latu, Director General, Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
Chlöe is a Green Party list MP and the Green Party spokesperson on: Education (including Tertiary), Internal Affairs, Sensible Drug Law Reform, Local Government, Arts Culture & Heritage, Small Business, Broadcasting and Youth.
Mr. Kosi Latu, Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), leads the premier intergovernmental agency for the Pacific environment.
Other confirmed speakers include:
Tina Porou – Managing Director, Poipoia Limited
James Whetu – Director and Planner, Whetū Consultancy Group
Tom Burkitt – Cilmate Risk, Resilience, and Adaptation Specialist, WSP
Mark Christensen – Director, Natural Resources Law Limited
Judy Lawrence – Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
Anthony Kubale – Senior Environmental Consultant, Jacobs New Zealand
Willie Smith – Independent Researcher
Alastair Woodward – Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland
Helen Fitt – Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln University
Nick Cradock-Henry – Landcare Researc
Mr. Kosi Latu, Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), leads the premier intergovernmental agency for the Pacific environment.
Other confirmed speakers include:
Tina Porou – Managing Director, Poipoia Limited
James Whetu – Director and Planner, Whetū Consultancy Group
Tom Burkitt – Cilmate Risk, Resilience, and Adaptation Specialist, WSP
Mark Christensen – Director, Natural Resources Law Limited
Judy Lawrence – Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington
Anthony Kubale – Senior Environmental Consultant, Jacobs New Zealand
Willie Smith – Independent Researcher
Alastair Woodward – Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland
Helen Fitt – Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln University
Nick Cradock-Henry – Landcare Researc
Impact Connector
A series of articles from academics and practitioners working in the field of impact assessment
Landscape Assessment
Co-edited by Clive Anstey
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Ecological Impact AssessmentEdited by Judith Roper-Lindsay
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Cultural Impact AssessmentCo-edited by Dyanna Jolly and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
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EIANZ is a professional association for environmental practitioners from across Australia and New Zealand.
We have a Memorandum of Understanding with EIANZ to work closely with with Special Interest Section on Impact Assessment in promoting and supporting the practice of impact assessment in New Zealand and Australia. |
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme has been charged by the governments of the Pacific region with the protection and sustainable development of the region's environment.
We have a Memorandum of Understanding with SPREP to assist with the development of impact assessment capability in the Pacific as part of the Environmental Monitoring and Governance Programme. |
NZAIA is an affiliate organisation of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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NZAIA is an affiliate of the International Association for Impact Assessment. IAIA is the leading global network on impact assessment. We have a Memorandum of Understanding with IAIA.
NZAIA members receive discounted attendance at international IAIA conferences and training symposia. |