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  • Impact Connector
    • Issue #14 Impact assessment for infrastructure development >
      • Impact assessment for infrastructure development - an introduction
      • Place Matters: The importance of geographic assessment of areas of influence in understanding the social effects of large-scale transport investment in Wellington
      • Unplanned Consequences? New Zealand's experiment with urban (un)planning and infrastructure implications
      • Reflections on infrastructure, Town and Country planning and intimations of SIA in the late 1970s and early 1980s
      • SIA guidance for infrastructure and economic development projects
      • Scoping in impact assessments for infrastructure projects: Reflections on South African experiences
      • Impact Assessment for Pacific Island Infrastructure
    • Issue #13 Health impact assessment: practice issues >
      • Introduction to health impact assessment: practice issues
      • International Health Impact Assessment – a personal view
      • Use of Health Impact Assessment to develop climate change adaptation plans for health
      • An integrated approach to assessing health impacts
      • Assessing the health and social impacts of transport policies and projects
      • Whither HIA in New Zealand….or just wither?
    • Issue #12 Risk Assessment: Case Studies and Approaches >
      • Introduction
      • Risk Assessment and Impact Assessment : A perspective from Victoria, Australia
      • The New and Adaptive Paradigm Needed to Manage Rising Coastal Risks
      • Reflections on Using Risk Assessments in Understanding Climate Change Adaptation Needs in Te Taitokerau Northland
      • Values-Based Impact Assessment and Emergency Management
      • Certainty about Communicating Uncertainty: Assessment of Flood Loss and Damage
      • Improving Understanding of Rockfall Geohazard Risk in New Zealand
      • Normalised New Zealand Natural Disaster Insurance Losses: 1968-2019
      • Houston, We Have a Problem - Seamless Integration of Weather and Climate Forecast for Community Resilience
      • Innovating with Online Data to Understand Risk and Impact in a Data Poor Environment
    • Impact Connector #11 Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Impact Assessment: views from the Pacific >
      • Introduction
      • Climate change adaptation and mitigation, impact assessment, and decision-making: a Pacific perspective
      • Climate adaptation and impact assessment in the Pacific: overview of SPREP-sponsored presentations
      • Land and Sea: Integrated Assessment of the Temaiku Land and Urban Development Project in Kiribati
      • Strategic Environmental Assessment: Rising to the SDG Challenge
      • Coastal Engineering for Climate Change Resilience in Eastern Tongatapu, Tonga
      • Climate-induced Migration in the Pacific: The Role of New Zealand
    • Impact Connector #10 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation >
      • Introduction
      • Is a “just transition” possible for Māori?
      • Adapting to Climate Change on Scale: Addressing the Challenge and Understanding the Impacts of Asia Mega-Cities
      • How responding to climate change might affect health, for better or for worse
      • Kanuka, Kereru and carbon capture - Assessing the effects of a programme taking a fresh look at the hill and high country land resource
      • Wairoa: Community perceptions of increased afforestation
      • Te Kākahu Kahukura Ecological Restoration project: A story within a story
    • Issue #9 Impacts of Covid-19 >
      • Introduction to Impact Connector Issue 9 – Impact assessment and Covid 19
      • Covid-19 fast-track consenting: climate change legacy key to success
      • Tourism – the long haul ahead
      • Making sense of the impact of Covid-19: planning, politics, and the public good
    • Issue #8 Social Impact Assessment >
      • Challenges for Social Impact Assessment in New Zealand: looking backwards and looking forwards
      • Insights from the eighties: early Social Impact Assessment reports on rural community dynamics
      • Impact Assessment and the Capitals Framework: A Systems-based Approach to Understanding and Evaluating Wellbeing
      • Building resilience in Rural Communities – a focus on mobile population groups
      • Assessing the Impacts of a New Cycle Trail: A Fieldnote
      • The challenges of a new biodiversity strategy for social impact assessment (SIA)
      • “Say goodbye to traffic”? The role of SIA in establishing whether ‘air taxis’ are the logical next step in the evolution of transportation
    • Issue #7 Ecological Impact Assessment >
      • The future of Ecological Impact Assessment in New Zealand
      • Ecological impact assessment and roading projects
      • EcIA and the Resource Management Act
      • Professional Practice and implementation of EcIA
      • EcIA in the Marine Environment
    • Issue #6 Landscape Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Lives and landscapes: who cares, what about, and does it matter?
      • Regional Landscape Inconsistency
      • Landscape management in the new world order
      • Landscape assessment and the Environment Court
      • Natural character assessments and provisions in a coastal environment
      • The Assessment and Management of Amenity
      • The rise of the THIMBY
      • Landscape - Is there a common understanding of the Common?
    • Issue #5 Cultural Impact Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Potential of Cultural Impact Assessment
      • The Mitigation Dilemma
      • CIA and decision-making
      • Insights and observations on CIA
      • Achieving sustainability through CIA
      • CIA - Enhancing or diminishing mauri?
      • Strategic Indigenous Impact Assessment?
    • Issue #4 Marine Environment >
      • Introduction
      • Iwi, Impact Assessment and Marine Environment
      • Sea-Bed Mining Application in Taranaki
      • The wreck of the MV Rena
      • High Court RMA Controls on Fishing
      • Initiatives in the Pacific Islands
      • SEA in an NZ context
    • Issue #3 Strategic Environmental Assessment
    • Issue #2
    • Issue #1
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NZAIA CORE GROUP 

​The Core Group meets on a monthly basis via teleconferencing to discuss and implement NZAIA business.
​All Core Group members are volunteers. 
View the Core Group Meeting Minutes

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Richard Morgan - Chair 

Sophal Chhun - Secretary 

Richard is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Otago, Dunedin, and the current chair of NZAIA. Although he began his career as a biogeographer, investigating human impacts on soil and vegetation systems, he soon developed an interest in impact assessment in the early 1980s, and this became his main research focus following the enactment of the Resource Management Act 1991. Richard’s research addresses issues around improving the quality and effectiveness of IA, both through institutional change and better practice,  across all forms of assessment, from ecological to social, cultural, and health,  through to strategic environmental assessment and regulatory impact assessment. He has published extensively on impact assessment, including an international textbook. Currently a trainer on IAIA’s online EIA course, Richard has also run training sessions at a number of IAIA conferences, and for SPREP in various countries in Asia-Pacific region, as well as training courses within New Zealand. Richard was President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) in 2003-5.
Sophal Chhun is a socio-ecological researcher and impact assessment practitioner with over 10 years’ experience from both regulatory and consulting perspectives.  He has completed more than 50 consultancy projects in Cambodia on environmental and social impact assessment for consents/approvals and developed mitigation guidelines and safeguard plans for several international development projects.  As an ecological economist by training, Sophal has advocated integrating environmental valuation into impact assessment for decision-making support and using economic instruments for environmental policy (including payment for ecosystem services and pollution taxes).  He is an Independent Consultant, Consulting Partner at CES Co. Ltd., and Guest Lecturer of environmental impact assessment at Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP).
 
Sophal with his wife and three children migrated to New Zealand in 2019.  He was a Senior Policy Analyst, science policy at NZ Ministry for Primary Industries. With a passion for research and impact assessment, Sophal has joined and taken a role as a Core Group Member and Secretary of NZAIA.  He has recently been accredited as a Certified Environmental Practitioner (CEnvP).  
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Andrew Crosland - Treaurer

Andrew Crosland has been interested in the effectiveness of impact assessment since taking papers by Richard Morgan while at the University of Otago.

Andrew had 15 years experience as an environmental planner at councils, MfE and the EPA. While no longer working in the field of environmental impact assessment, Andrew is enjoying the challenge of applying impact assessment methodology to regulatory stewardship. 

Membership of NZAIA is a great way to keep up to date with the practice and community of the Impact Assessment profession. 

Nick Taylor 

Nick is a specialist in SIA. As a school leaver VSA in Sarawak seeing native forest logging expand, he was drawn to an interest in people and the environment, studying geography and anthropology at Otago and resource management at the Joint Centre for Environmental Sciences.  His PhD at Canterbury investigated the impacts of NZ agricultural development projects in the Cook Islands, expanding an interest in how projects are designed and implemented, often with inadequate consideration of their cultural and social implications.

​Convinced about the need to integrate environmental and social perspectives, Nick was drawn to the Centre for Resource Management at Lincoln University, where the late Dr John Hayward led what we would now call a strategic investigation of the impacts of large scale mining of lignite for synthetic fuels.  No, it didn’t proceed.  But Nick got involved in developing capacity and training in SIA and went on, with James Baines, to form a consulting firm doing SIA and environmental research.  Nick was President of the IAIA from 2008-11 and in recent years led the course on EIA at Lincoln.
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Keith Finlayson

Terry Calmeyer

Keith Finlayson was drawn to impact assessment after undertaking Richard Morgan's Impact Assessment paper for an Environmental Management course at the University of Otago. The paper introduced the impact assessment concept, with particular focus on prior planning or risk avoidance aspects which struck Keith as a particularly powerful concept to improve projects at a crucial early stage. During the paper various complexities were also illustrated including things like meaningful consultation, pressures to develop for job creation, and how to value the environment and the risks / benefits involved.

​Being a part of NZAIA allows Keith to work with experts in the field, be involved in challenges of running a volunteer organisation and promoting IA wherever it is applicable for the benefits of the environment and society. Keith currently works as a Land Sustainability Officer at the Southland Regional Council.
After over 25 years of consulting in the environmental management sector in Southern Africa Terry moved to New Zealand to take up a position at the Environmental Protection Authority in January 2020. Her skills are founded on a Masters degree in Geography (Environment and Society) from the University of Pretoria and she is experienced in undertaking environmental impact assessments for large infrastructure projects in the water, transport and energy sectors.  In South Africa, Terry was actively involved in IAIA as well as the South African affiliate of IAIA that she was president of in 2012 – 2013.
 
Terry is currently a Principal Advisor in the Land and Oceans Applications team at the Environmental Protection Authority. This team is responsible for processing applications for consents for offshore activities as well as Nationally Significant Proposals.
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Kate McNab

Kate McNab is an Environmental & Resource Planner at the Christchurch City Council, assisting with the delivery of Council's Capital Programme. Kate was drawn to impact assessment after taking Nick Taylor's course at Lincoln University, and became part of NZAIA after being the recipient of a conference scholarship.

Kate maintains the website for NZAIA and edits the monthly E-News that gets sent to members. She enjoys editing the E-News as a way to stay on top news and research relevant for the impact assessment profession and her role as a planner. Kate values the mentorship and mutual learning that takes place between the younger and the more experienced members of NZAIA, and the diverse perspectives within the organisation.  

Dyanna Jolly 

Dyanna Jolly (home community - Whitebear First Nations, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Senior Lecturer in Indigenous planning and environmental management at Lincoln University I Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki. She has 20 years of experience working with mana whenua to prepare iwi management plans and cultural impact assessments, and recently completed her PhD at the University of Otago, undertaking a critical Indigenous analysis of cultural impact assessment effectiveness. ​
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Gillian

Rajan Chandra Ghosh 

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"Silent" core group members

Hamish Rennie

Associate Professor, Lincoln University
​Katherine Russell 
​Independent consultant
Michael Mackay
Senior social scientist, AgResearch
James Baines
Director, Taylor Baines Associates
Ian Boothroyd
Senior Principal, BoffaMiskell
Rob Greenaway
Director, Rob Greenaway and Associates
Gerard Fitzgerald
Director, Fitzgerald Applied Sociology

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  • Home
    • Environmental Impact Assessment
    • Social Impact Assessment
    • Strategic Environmental Assessment
    • Community & Stakeholder Engagement
    • Management, Monitoring and Reporting
  • About Us
    • Core Group >
      • Core Group Meeting Minutes
    • Our Partners and Affiliates
    • AGMs
    • Ethics
  • Membership
    • Sign Up for NZAIA Membership
  • Conferences
    • Proceedings from Past Conferences >
      • 2022 - Wellbeing, Sustainability and Impact Assessment: towards more integrated policy-making
      • 2021 - Social Impact Assessment >
        • Posters
        • 2021 Students
      • 2019 - Climate Change >
        • Posters
        • 2019 Students
        • Conference Photos
        • Contact List
      • 2018 - Regional Development
      • 2016 - Strategic Environmental Assessment
      • 2015 - Where to for Impact Assessment?
      • 2014 - Transport Infrastructure
      • 2013 Fresh Water Management
      • 2012 - Mineral Extraction
  • Impact Connector
    • Issue #14 Impact assessment for infrastructure development >
      • Impact assessment for infrastructure development - an introduction
      • Place Matters: The importance of geographic assessment of areas of influence in understanding the social effects of large-scale transport investment in Wellington
      • Unplanned Consequences? New Zealand's experiment with urban (un)planning and infrastructure implications
      • Reflections on infrastructure, Town and Country planning and intimations of SIA in the late 1970s and early 1980s
      • SIA guidance for infrastructure and economic development projects
      • Scoping in impact assessments for infrastructure projects: Reflections on South African experiences
      • Impact Assessment for Pacific Island Infrastructure
    • Issue #13 Health impact assessment: practice issues >
      • Introduction to health impact assessment: practice issues
      • International Health Impact Assessment – a personal view
      • Use of Health Impact Assessment to develop climate change adaptation plans for health
      • An integrated approach to assessing health impacts
      • Assessing the health and social impacts of transport policies and projects
      • Whither HIA in New Zealand….or just wither?
    • Issue #12 Risk Assessment: Case Studies and Approaches >
      • Introduction
      • Risk Assessment and Impact Assessment : A perspective from Victoria, Australia
      • The New and Adaptive Paradigm Needed to Manage Rising Coastal Risks
      • Reflections on Using Risk Assessments in Understanding Climate Change Adaptation Needs in Te Taitokerau Northland
      • Values-Based Impact Assessment and Emergency Management
      • Certainty about Communicating Uncertainty: Assessment of Flood Loss and Damage
      • Improving Understanding of Rockfall Geohazard Risk in New Zealand
      • Normalised New Zealand Natural Disaster Insurance Losses: 1968-2019
      • Houston, We Have a Problem - Seamless Integration of Weather and Climate Forecast for Community Resilience
      • Innovating with Online Data to Understand Risk and Impact in a Data Poor Environment
    • Impact Connector #11 Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Impact Assessment: views from the Pacific >
      • Introduction
      • Climate change adaptation and mitigation, impact assessment, and decision-making: a Pacific perspective
      • Climate adaptation and impact assessment in the Pacific: overview of SPREP-sponsored presentations
      • Land and Sea: Integrated Assessment of the Temaiku Land and Urban Development Project in Kiribati
      • Strategic Environmental Assessment: Rising to the SDG Challenge
      • Coastal Engineering for Climate Change Resilience in Eastern Tongatapu, Tonga
      • Climate-induced Migration in the Pacific: The Role of New Zealand
    • Impact Connector #10 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation >
      • Introduction
      • Is a “just transition” possible for Māori?
      • Adapting to Climate Change on Scale: Addressing the Challenge and Understanding the Impacts of Asia Mega-Cities
      • How responding to climate change might affect health, for better or for worse
      • Kanuka, Kereru and carbon capture - Assessing the effects of a programme taking a fresh look at the hill and high country land resource
      • Wairoa: Community perceptions of increased afforestation
      • Te Kākahu Kahukura Ecological Restoration project: A story within a story
    • Issue #9 Impacts of Covid-19 >
      • Introduction to Impact Connector Issue 9 – Impact assessment and Covid 19
      • Covid-19 fast-track consenting: climate change legacy key to success
      • Tourism – the long haul ahead
      • Making sense of the impact of Covid-19: planning, politics, and the public good
    • Issue #8 Social Impact Assessment >
      • Challenges for Social Impact Assessment in New Zealand: looking backwards and looking forwards
      • Insights from the eighties: early Social Impact Assessment reports on rural community dynamics
      • Impact Assessment and the Capitals Framework: A Systems-based Approach to Understanding and Evaluating Wellbeing
      • Building resilience in Rural Communities – a focus on mobile population groups
      • Assessing the Impacts of a New Cycle Trail: A Fieldnote
      • The challenges of a new biodiversity strategy for social impact assessment (SIA)
      • “Say goodbye to traffic”? The role of SIA in establishing whether ‘air taxis’ are the logical next step in the evolution of transportation
    • Issue #7 Ecological Impact Assessment >
      • The future of Ecological Impact Assessment in New Zealand
      • Ecological impact assessment and roading projects
      • EcIA and the Resource Management Act
      • Professional Practice and implementation of EcIA
      • EcIA in the Marine Environment
    • Issue #6 Landscape Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Lives and landscapes: who cares, what about, and does it matter?
      • Regional Landscape Inconsistency
      • Landscape management in the new world order
      • Landscape assessment and the Environment Court
      • Natural character assessments and provisions in a coastal environment
      • The Assessment and Management of Amenity
      • The rise of the THIMBY
      • Landscape - Is there a common understanding of the Common?
    • Issue #5 Cultural Impact Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Potential of Cultural Impact Assessment
      • The Mitigation Dilemma
      • CIA and decision-making
      • Insights and observations on CIA
      • Achieving sustainability through CIA
      • CIA - Enhancing or diminishing mauri?
      • Strategic Indigenous Impact Assessment?
    • Issue #4 Marine Environment >
      • Introduction
      • Iwi, Impact Assessment and Marine Environment
      • Sea-Bed Mining Application in Taranaki
      • The wreck of the MV Rena
      • High Court RMA Controls on Fishing
      • Initiatives in the Pacific Islands
      • SEA in an NZ context
    • Issue #3 Strategic Environmental Assessment
    • Issue #2
    • Issue #1
  • Resources
    • Webinars
    • IAIA Resources
    • United Nations Guidance
    • Donors Guidelines and Principles
    • Oceania and the Pacific
    • Natural Systems >
      • Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
      • Agriculture & Food Systems
      • Water Management
    • Social Impact Assessment
    • Health Impact Assessment >
      • Climate Change & Health
      • Air Quality Impact Assessment
    • Cumulative Impact Assessment
    • Community and Stakeholder Engagement
    • Indigenous Peoples
    • Climate Change and Disaster Risk Resilience >
      • Adaptation Planning
      • Nature-based Solutions
    • Urban Development
    • Sustainable Development Goals
    • Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • Community
    • Membership Directory
    • News
    • Policy Submissions >
      • Past Submissions
    • Courses