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    • Issue #17 Impact assessment and the marine environment >
      • Introduction – Impact Assessment and the Marine Environment
      • Reform, fishing and assessment of effects
      • Addressing the Complexity of Coastal Environments, Pressures, and Challenges in Cost-Effective Ecological Impact Assessments
      • Environmental Impact Assessments in the New Zealand marine environment...
      • Enhancing regional capacities for managing the risks and impacts of activities in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
    • Issue #16 SIA for rural resilience and wellbeing >
      • SIA for rural resilience and wellbeing: Intro
      • The drivers and agents of on-farm change in Aotearoa New Zealand
      • Social-ecological assessment for remote and island communities
      • The Impact of Substandard Rural Housing on Resilience and Wellbeing in Te Tai Tokerau
      • Success factors for planning regeneration in rural areas
    • Issue #15 Economic methods and Impact Assessment >
      • Economic methods in impact assessment: an introduction
      • The Nature of Economic Analysis for Resource Management
      • The State-of-the-Art and Prospects: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Environmental Impact Assessment
      • Economic impact assessment and regional development: reflections on Queensland mining impacts
      • Fonterra’s policy on economic incentives for promoting sustainable farming practices
    • 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
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IAIA Resources 

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Apart from webinars, IAIA also produces or commissions a variety of reports and guides relevant to impact assessment.  This page provides information about, and links to, the main types of published material, namely:  Best Practice Principles;  FasTips; and other reports/guides.   

Lists give the most recent first and will be updated as new items are published on the IAIA website.

Best Practice Principles

"The International Best Practice Principles series covers a variety of impact assessment topical areas, sharing best practices for practitioners. " (IAIA website)

These links download PDF files.
Best Practice (No.16): Use of AI in Impact Assessment 2025

Best Practice (No.15): Impact Assessment of Extraterrestrial Activities 2024

Best Practice (No.14): Nature-Based Solutions 2024
Full title: Best Practice: Criteria for the Selection of Nature-based Solutions for the Management of Urban Green Spaces in Latin American Developing Countries

Best Practice (No.13): Environmental/Social Impact Assessment Compliance and Enforcement 2023

Best Practice (No.12): Public Participation in Impact Assessment Follow-Up 2023

Best Practice (No.11): Resilience Assessment 2021

Best Practice (No.10): Teaching Impact Assessment 2018

Best Practice (No.09): Respecting Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Knowledge 2012

Best Practice (No.08): Climate Change 2018

Best Practice (No.07): Publishing EIA-Related Primary Biodiversity Data 2017

Best Practice (No.06): Impact Assessment Follow-Up 2022  [revised, updated]

Best Practice (No.05): Health Impact Assessment 2021

Best Practice (No.04): Public Participation 2006

Best Practice (No.03): Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Impact Assessment 2018

Best Practice (No.02): Principles for Social Impact Assessment 2003

Best Practice (No.01): Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Performance Criteria 2002

Best Practice (No.00): Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 1999

FasTips
"FasTips aim to be a small but useful piece of practical and quick advice for impact assessment professionals. FasTips offer practical clarification on frequently asked questions and are particularly useful for a quick look when there is no time for investigating or reviewing others' experiences or formal guidances." (IAIA website)

These links download PDF documents (Usually one page, two sides (duplex))

FASTIPS No. 30: Using Spatial Data in Impact Assessment 2026

FASTIPS No. 29: Systems Thinking in Impact Assessment  2026

FASTIPS No. 28: Leadership in Impact Assessment 2024

FASTIPS No. 27: Psycho-Social Impact Assessment 2023

FASTIPS No. 26: Human Rights in Impact Assessment 2023

FASTIPS No. 25: Compliance and Enforcement  2022

FASTIPS No. 24: Food Security 2021

FASTIPS No. 23: People’s Wellbeing & Biodiversity  2021

FASTIPS No. 22: Circular Economy 2020

FASTIPS No. 21: Convention on EIA in Transboundary Context 2020

FASTIPS No. 20: What should an EIA contain? 2019

FASTIPS No. 19: Impact Assessment & SDGs 2019

FASTIPS No. 18: Scoping 2018

FASTIPS No. 17: Induced Impacts 2018

FASTIPS No. 16: Cumulative Effects Assessment 2017

FASTIPS No. 15: Involuntary Resettlement  2017

FASTIPS No. 14: Assessing Significance in Impact Assessment of Projects 2016

FASTIPS No. 13: Ecosystem Services in SEA for Spatial Planning 2016

FASTIPS No. 12: Indigenous & Local Peoples & Traditional Knowledge 2016

FASTIPS No. 11: Alternatives in Project EIA 2015

FASTIPS No. 10: Effective Stakeholder Engagement 2015

FASTIPS No. 09: Non-Technical Summary 2015

FASTIPS No. 08: Health Impact Assessment  2014

FASTIPS No. 07: Alternatives in SEA  2014

FASTIPS No. 06: Mitigation 2013

FASTIPS No. 05: Biodiversity Assessment 2013

FASTIPS No. 04: Governance 2013

FASTIPS No. 03: Climate Smart Decisions 2012

FASTIPS No. 02: Ethics 012

FASTIPS No. 01: Impact Assessment 2012

Other reports and guides
"Access a variety of reference and guidance documents, including the comprehensive SEA Guidance for the energy transition and a full-length Social Impact Assessment Guidance publication." (IAIA website)

Unless otherwise indicated, these links download PDF documents.    The Other References archive, with links to the pages for each of these documents, can be accessed here

Taking stock of SEA effectiveness: A digest of expert views  2025
Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment and contributors

SEA Guidance: Improving Decision-Making for the Energy Transition 2025
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA)
This link takes you to the SEA Guidance webpage where the guide,in total or as  individual chapters, can be downloaded as required, and extra resources, including training, made available. 

Integrating Food Security into Impact Assessment  2024
Jill Blakley; Juan Carlos Tejeda-González; Veronica Rohr; Sara Rocio Vazquez Uribe

Identifying Model Impact Assessment Legal Procedures for Climate Change Action: IAIA Event Takeaways and Survey Results (2022–2023)  2024 (Sept. updated)
IAIA Climate Change and Impact Assessment initiative

Guidance for Implementing the IA Follow-Up Best Practices 2024
IAIA Follow-Up Section contributors
 
The State of Digital IA Practice 2021
Josh Fothergill

The Circular Economy and Impact Assessment – A Primer 2021
IAIA contributors

Human Health: Ensuring a High Level of Protection 2020
IAIA Health Section contributors
Summary paper also available: click here

Publishing Biodiversity Data from EIAs 2020
IAIA biodiversity data working group

Compendium of National IA Professional Recognition Schemes 2019
IAIA

Trends, Issues, & Insights in Cumulative Effects Assessment 2019
IAIA contributors

Resettlement & Livelihoods Symposium Compendium 2017
IAIA symposium contributors

Guiding Principles for Air Quality Assessments 2017
IAIA Air Quality Section contributors

Social Impact Assessment Guidance for Assessing and Managing the Social Impacts of Projects 2015
Frank Vanclay; plus other contributors

Guideline Standards for IA Professionals 2010
IAIA

What is Impact Assessment? 2009.
IAIA

Guidance for Biodiversity-Inclusive Impact Assessment: A manual for practitioners and reviewers in South Asia  2007
Asha Rajvanshi; Vinod B. Mathur; Usman A. Iftikhar

Environmental Methods Review: Retooling Impact Assessment for the New Millennium 1998
Editors: Alan L. Porter and John J. Fittipaldi    312pp [1.86MB]

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      • 2022 - Wellbeing, Sustainability and Impact Assessment: towards more integrated policy-making >
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      • 2018 - Regional Development
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  • Impact Connector
    • Issue #17 Impact assessment and the marine environment >
      • Introduction – Impact Assessment and the Marine Environment
      • Reform, fishing and assessment of effects
      • Addressing the Complexity of Coastal Environments, Pressures, and Challenges in Cost-Effective Ecological Impact Assessments
      • Environmental Impact Assessments in the New Zealand marine environment...
      • Enhancing regional capacities for managing the risks and impacts of activities in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
    • Issue #16 SIA for rural resilience and wellbeing >
      • SIA for rural resilience and wellbeing: Intro
      • The drivers and agents of on-farm change in Aotearoa New Zealand
      • Social-ecological assessment for remote and island communities
      • The Impact of Substandard Rural Housing on Resilience and Wellbeing in Te Tai Tokerau
      • Success factors for planning regeneration in rural areas
    • Issue #15 Economic methods and Impact Assessment >
      • Economic methods in impact assessment: an introduction
      • The Nature of Economic Analysis for Resource Management
      • The State-of-the-Art and Prospects: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Environmental Impact Assessment
      • Economic impact assessment and regional development: reflections on Queensland mining impacts
      • Fonterra’s policy on economic incentives for promoting sustainable farming practices
    • 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
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    • 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
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