The workshop received the highest participant rating for all training courses offered at the IAIA conference last year. At the Brisbane IAIA19 Conference, and subsequent workshops in Brisbane and Sydney, all participants indicated on their feedback form that they would recommend the course to a colleague. Some feedback comments included:‘A new pragmatic way of influencing’, ‘Highly recommend this approach to all environmental practitioners. I now have a new way to present environmental information that will assist our business and the wider public’, and ‘Fantastic, this is the future in my view, makes everyone’s job easier’.
 
The workshop is targeted to practitioners who are working in government, consultancy and industry, and any other environmental professionals who prepare AEE reports. The workshop shares two sets of tools collectively called ‘Organised Reasoning’. The first toolkit provides a structured sequence of steps to help organise your thinking and your argument. The second toolkit shows how to better present arguments in the written text of your documents.

Assessments are complex documents and using the tools of argument can make them easier for audiences to understand and for authors to write!

More Effective Assessments of Environmental Effects: Tools for Stronger Argument and Clearer Writing

Workshops taught by Dr. Glenn Brown

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24-25 June 2019 : Dunedin
27-28 June 2019 : Christchurch
1-2 July 2019 : Wellington
8-9 July 2019 : Auckland

More Effective Assessments of Environmental Effects: Tools for Stronger Argument and Clearer Writing

A series of workshops taught by Dr. Glenn Brown
24-25 June 2019 : Dunedin
27-28 June 2019 : Christchurch
1-2 July 2019 : Wellington
8-9 July 2019 : Auckland
Save $150 on event registration with NZAIA membership
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). 

NZAIA is submitting on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill

The purpose of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill is to provide a framework for a stable policy environment with a clear emissions target and a guided pathway to get us there. NZAIA has identified that there is an opportunity to advocate as an organisation for the best practice use of impact assessment in this proposed law.

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Assessing the Impacts

 27-28 November 2019
at UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Impact Connector

A series of articles from academics and practitioners working in the field of impact assessment 

Landscape Assessment

Co-edited by Clive Anstey
and Chantal Whitby

Ecological Impact Assessment

Edited by Judith Roper-Lindsay

Cultural Impact Assessment

Co-edited by Dyanna Jolly and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett

OUR PARTNERS

EIANZ is a professional association for environmental practitioners from across Australia and New Zealand.
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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. 
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.