Impact Connector

Each issue of Impact Connector comprises a series of articles and/or opinion pieces by practitioners and academics working in the field of impact assessment. Each issue has a theme (generally a type of impact assessment, or a sector).

We are fortunate to have so many people in our community who are generous with their time, knowledge and insights. 
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If you have a suggestion for an Impact Connector theme, or you would like to contribute to future issues, please contact us. 
Next issue:
Impact assessment for the marine and coastal environment

Planned issue:
Impact assessment of transport policy and projects for enhanced safety and sustainability
Get in touch if you are interested in contributing to or helping with either of these
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Issue #16

SIA for rural resilience and wellbeing

Edited by Nick Taylor
March 2025

This issue of Impact Connector considers issues of rural change in some depth, including agents of change driving environmental management by farmers, the characteristics of inhabited islands and remote communities that host projects such as predator eradications, rural housing deprivation, and the factors that drive success in rural regeneration projects.
Issue #15

Economic methods and impact assessment
Edited by Sophal Chhun and Richard Morgan
April 2023
This issue of Impact Connector explores some of the various ways economic methods can contribute to impact assessment, at policy and project levels, and to reduce environmental impacts through behaviour change.

Issue #14
Impact assessment for infrastructure development

Edited by Nick Taylor
November 2022
This issue of Impact Connector focuses on impact assessment in infrastructure development in Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands.

Issue #13 
Health Impact Assessment:
​practice issues

Edited by Nick Taylor and Richard Morgan
November 2021
This issue of Impact Connector focuses on health impact assessment both in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.  The issue brings together short papers that report on examples of current practice and provide commentary on how HIA continues to develop in the face of new challenges. 

Issue #12
Risk Assessment: Case Studies and Approaches

Edited by Tom Burkitt and Rajan Ghosh
October 2021
This issue of Impact Connector focuses on risk and impact assessment, offers new and innovative ways of understanding and responding to risk, and describes ​case studies where a variety of methods were applied. 

Issue #11
Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Impact Assessment: views from the Pacific  

Edited by Greg Barbara and Richard Morgan
January 2021
This issue of Impact Connector focuses on the use of impact assessment in the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in Pacific Island countries.

Issue #10
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Edited by Richard Morgan
November 2020
This issue of Impact Connector focuses on the use of impact assessment in the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand (as well as in cities further afield)

Issue #9
Impacts of Covid-19

Edited by Nick Taylor and Richard Morgan
2020
This issue of Impact Connector focuses on the impacts of Covid 19 in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Issue #8
Social Impact Assessment

Edited by Nick Taylor and Mike Mackay
December 2019
This issue considers some of the challenges facing SIA in New Zealand, and how the future practice of SIA could be applied to societal challenges.

Issue #7
Ecological Impact Assessment

Edited by Judith Roper-Lindsay 
April 2019
This issue discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with the protection of biodiversity in New Zealand, and the role of ecological impact assessment (EcIA). 

Issue #6 
Landscape Assessment

Co-edited by Clive Anstey and Chantal Whitby 
January 2019
In this issue, a diverse range of authors from throughout Aotearoa-New Zealand were asked to share their reflections on landscape assessment from their experience.

Issue #5
Cultural Impact Assessment

Co-edited by Dyanna Jolly & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
April 2018
​In this issue we articulate some of the principles, practices, achievements and questions surrounding Indigenous impact assessment (Cultural Impact Assessment). 

Issue #4 
IA in the Marine Environment

Edited by Nick Taylor
November 2017
Impact assessment seems to have a weak connection into resource policy, decision making and management for the ocean environment. We ask as an Association, how can this connection be improved? 

Issue #3
Strategic Environmental Assessment:
a report on the 2016 NZAIA Conference 

April 2017

Issue #2

November 2016

Issue #1

June 2016