This year the NZAIA annual meeting reflected on how New Zealand impact assessment is faring in these choppy seas.
Thursday 3rd December 2015
University of Otago Wellington, Newtown, Wellington
What's new....? (18th Dec2015)

                   Following a very successful and stimulating meeting, we are now posting materials on the website.  Most presentations are available as PDF files, as are posters presented at the event.
The final programme is also available for download.

More information below....
Purpose of the meeting
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Impact assessment has been a major environmental management tool in New Zealand since 1974, but has seen major changes since the introduction of the Resource Management Act and other legislation in recent times. Different forms of impact assessment, dealing with social, health, ecological, and other types of impact, are now in use.  At the same time, impact assessment is used in a variety of decision contexts, not just for resource consents.

So the field of impact assessment is expanding and evolving, although in some respects practice in New Zealand may be falling behind international trends.  At the same time, the recent financial and economic crises have seen governments in many countries looking at environmental safeguard processes more critically.  New Zealand is no exception.
This year the NZAIA annual meeting reflected on how New Zealand impact assessment is faring in these choppy seas.
NZAIA feels it is timely to reflect on the our progress to date, and to think about ways to influence the future course of IA in this country. To that end we based the programme of the one-day conference on the following questions:
  • What has been achieved in New Zealand?
  • How do we as New Zealanders develop a shared vision about the future practice of impact assessment?
  • What practical steps can NZAIA take to support that vision?
This meeting was dedicated to the memory of James Newell
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Final programme
Click here to download the programme prepared for the conference.
Speaker information
 Click here for short biographies of the speakers
Presentations
PDFs of the presentations at the conference are posted on a separate page: click here
Posters
PDFs of the posters presented at the conference are posted on a separate page:  click here