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2018 - Regional Development
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2015 - Where to for Impact Assessment?
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2013 Fresh Water Management
2012 - Mineral Extraction
Impact Connector
Issue #15 Economic methods and Impact Assessment
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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United Nations Guidance
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Oceania and the Pacific
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Climate Change & Health
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Social Impact Assessment
Social Impact Assessment: Guidelines for Thriving Regions and Communities
Social Impact Assessment: Guidance for Assessing and Managing the Social Impacts of Projects
International Principles for Social Impact Assessment
A Comprehensive Guide for Social Impact Assessment
Leading Practice Strategies for Addressing the Social Impacts of Resource Developments
Social Impact Assessment: Integrating Social Issues in Development Projects
NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment - Social Impact Assessment Guideline for State Significant Projects
Community Wellbeing Indicators
Human Rights
Community Based Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool
Human Rights Impact Assessment: Guidance and Toolbox
Integrating human rights into environmental, social and health impact assessments: A practical guide for the oil and gas industry
United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
Human rights and impact assessment: clarifying the connections in practice
Gender
Gender Impact Assessment Toolkit
WECF gender impact assessment and monitoring tool
Gender Equality Impact Assessment Manual
A Guide to Gender Analysis Frameworks
Children
Child Impact Assessment
VIDEO: Understanding Impacts on Vulnerable Populations through Psycho Social Impact Assessment
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Environmental Impact Assessment
Social Impact Assessment
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Community & Stakeholder Engagement
Management, Monitoring and Reporting
About Us
Core Group
>
Core Group Meeting Minutes
Our Partners and Affiliates
AGMs
Ethics
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Sign Up for NZAIA Membership
2023 Calendar Year Membership Subscription Renewal
Conferences
Conference 2023
>
Student Scholarships
Sign up for updates on future conferences
Proceedings from Past Conferences
>
2022 - Wellbeing, Sustainability and Impact Assessment: towards more integrated policy-making
>
Posters
2022 Students
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 #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
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