IAIA22 Conference Proceedings

IAIA22 Conference Proceedings

Confidence in Impact Assessment: Policies, partnerships and public involvement
4-7 May 2022 | Vancouver, BC, Canada

Summary

IAIA22 proceedings are a recap of the May 2022 event. Visit the IAIA22 Proceedings page to get a glimpse of the sessions, presentations, and activities that made IAIA22 a success. There you will find: 

Final Program: Download the PDF final program to view the conference agenda and other final event details.

Session Chair Reports: Read summaries of the concurrent sessions as submitted by the session chairs.

Presentations: View uploaded presentations; see the list below. (Note: Not all presenters choose to share their presentations.)

Papers: Presenters were invited to submit optional papers. The final (edited) papers are posted here.

Available Presentations

50th Anniversary of NEPA: Summary of Influential U.S. court decisions – Powerpoint
P.E. “Pam” Hudson   session: The 50th anniversary of NEPA: Lessons learned and future challenges

Agenda-free consultative impact assessment: A key to confidence building
David A. Burack   session: Building confidence in EA through good evidence and practitioner integrity

Amplifying the perspectives of program participants: What works?
Lisa Zook   session: Building confidence in IA results by using participatory approaches

ANTAMINA: TRANSFORMING 25 YEARS OF DATA TO A BIODIVERSIY CONSERVATION TOOL
Claudia Valencia Franke   session: From data and information to knowledge and wisdom in impact assessment

Applications of eDNA Technology for Improved EIA and Conservation Outcomes
Vere Ross-Gillespie   session: Nature positive: Reaching a global goal for nature

Are Baseline and Modeling Supporting EA Follow-up for Hydroelectric Dams?
Carolyn Brown   session: EA Follow-up: Exploring its role as a confidence building exercise

Are resources sufficient for the evaluation of social impacts of resource projects?
Nina Barton   session: A holistic approach to SIA: Meaningful implementation for modern challenges

Are we positive? Is impact assessment prepared to implement positive effects requirements?
Lyle Thompson   session: Are we positive? Is IA prepared to implement positive effects requirements?

Assessing Biophysical Factors That Support Ecosystem Function in IAs
Edwin Hubert   session: Impact assessment innovations in Western and Northern Canada

Assessing contributions to sustainability from rare earth element mining
Eve McLeod Norberg   session: The Intersection of ESG, sustainability, and IA

Assessing impacts that matter to people: practical examples of assessing psycho-social impacts within environmental impact assessment
Catherine Fairbairn   session: Theories and concepts to build confidence in psycho-social impact assessment

Assessing Project Amendments: Creeping Baselines and Cumulative Baselines
Alan Ehrlich   session: Impact assessment innovations in Western and Northern Canada

Assessing the public interest in impact assessment using a multiple account evaluation framework
Cameron Gunton   session: Advancing impact assessment: Opportunities, methods, and tools

Better explain ESIA for a Better PP
Jean Hébert   session: Achieving more meaningful public participation in impact assessment

Building confidence in EIA: Key environmental auditing assumptions in the South African EIA system
Theunis Meyer   session: Compliance and Enforcement of Impact Assessment Decisions

Building confidence through consistent and meaningful consultation and delivering on commitments
Candice Wilson   session: Working with Indigenous community to create confidence in projects

Collaborative Assessments: Melding Indigenous Nation Wants with Project Proponent Needs
Julie Swinscoe   session: Building confidence in IA results by using participatory approaches

Confronting Already Significant Existing Cumulative Effects
Marcus Eyre   session: IA: Special Challenges and Potential

COVID AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT
4TH IAIA SURVEY RESULTS

Charles Kelly   session: The COVID pandemic, disasters, conflict, impact assessment, and beyond

Developing Indigenous Health Indicators for Cumulative Effects Management
Clementine Bouche   session: Indigenous-specific cumulative effects assessment methodologies

Developing synergies between isolated corporate areas through NbS language
Nicole Puschel   session: Including nature-based solutions in project design and impact assessment

Early Engagement and Effective Consensus Seeking Under the BC Environmental Assessment Act
Katherine St James   session: Planning early for next generation IA: Lessons from BC, Canada, and beyond

Economic Impact Assessment: Where We’ve Come From, Where We Are Now, and Where We Still Need to Go
Chris Joseph   session: Advancing impact assessment: Opportunities, methods, and tools

Emerging Models for Indigenous-Crown Collaborative Impact Assessment – Challenges and Opportunities
Trefor Smith   session: State-Indigenous processes that advance FPIC requirements under UNDRIP

Encouraging participation through ethical data collection and digitalisation
Debbie Cousins, Amy Sexton and Claire Penny   session: Online IA processes for sustainable development: Building relationships and collaboration

Environmental Stewardship Initiative Lake Babine Nation Wetland Case Study
Nicole Wright   session: Indigenous-specific cumulative effects assessment methodologies

ESMF for Climate Resilience and Rural Development Project: Global Learnings & Local Solutions
Nazia Zakir Ahmed   session:

Evolution in Guidance for EIA Implementation as a Confidence Building Measure: A Comparative Case Study of Brazil, Chile, and Colombia
John James Loomis   session: Confidence in policies and public involvement: Moving targets?

Factors of Residents’ Attitude to Solar-PV Project
Shigeo Nishikizawa   session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial, and Sustainable EA

From Reactive to Proactive: Metlakatla’s Indigenous-led Cumulative Effects Management Program
Katerina Kwon and Erin Mutrie   session: Advancing impact assessment: Opportunities, methods, and tools

Health impact assessment and health in environmental assessment in Europe
Gabriel Gulis   session: Health impact assessment: Key topics and new direction for inclusion in handbook

Health Impact Assessment Fit for Energy Transition
Mortara Simone Fortunato   session: Health impact assessment: Research, policy, and application

How collaboration can support Indigenous priorities and advance project
Morgan Guerin and Erin Harlos   session: More collaboration…better results

Impact assessment at-a-glance: Process booklets for a wide audience
Jeremy Freeman   session: Achieving more meaningful public participation in impact assessment

Improving how we describe disturbed sites planned for new development
Chuck Hubert   session: Planning early for next generation IA: Lessons from BC, Canada, and beyond

Improving Regulatory Efficiency with Readability
Emily Louise Stace McKie   session: PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATIONS ONLY: Bridging the gap between the theory and practice of IA

Including the voices of Indigenous Peoples matters
Andrea Repetto Vargas   session: Participation, Partnership and Impact Assessment: Tools and practice for better outcomes

Increasing Transparency in the Determination of Significance
Alvaro Paredes   session: Confidence in policies and public involvement: Moving targets?

INDIGENOUS & STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT DOES NOT END AT PROJECT APPROVAL
Philip Seeto   session: Indigenous and Stakeholder Involvement in Post-Decision Activities

Indigenous-led impact assessment: opportunities and challenges for meaningful input in project-based assessments
Jeffrey Nishima-Miller   session: State-Indigenous processes that advance FPIC requirements under UNDRIP

Integrating Climate Risk Assessments into Impact Assessments-USAID’s example
Henry Nii Arday Aryeetey   session: IA: Special Challenges and Potential

Integrating GHG Emissions into IA: The Federal Experience in Canada
Meinhard Doelle   session: First experiences with Canada’s 2019 Impact Assessment Act

Micro and macro considerations in jointly regulated impact assessments in British Columbia, Canada
Jeff Rempel   session: Confidence in policies and public involvement: Moving targets?

NEPA Next 50: EIA for Infrastructure Investment
Edward (Ted) Andersen Boling   session: The 50th anniversary of NEPA: Lessons learned and future challenges

New! An Indigenous Peoples Participation & Partnership Paradigm
Greg Guldin   session:

Pinning Down the Mitigation Hierarchy to Protect Biodiversity: A Quest for Principle and Consistency
David W. Poulton   session: IA: Special Challenges and Potential

Professional Registration for Impact Assessment Practitioners: The South African Story
Jacqui Hex   session: Indigenous-specific cumulative effects assessment methodologies

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN IA- EXPERIENCES FROM NEPAL
Milan Dahal   session: Achieving more meaningful public participation in impact assessment

Quantifying social determinants of health using qualitative inputs and structural equation modelling
Laurens Reumers   session: From data and information to knowledge and wisdom in impact assessment

Quantifying social determinants of health using qualitative inputs and structural equation modelling (PDF)
Laurens Reumers   session: Health impact assessment: Research, policy, and application

Rebalancing powers in impact assessment
Caroline Brodeur   session: Human Rights Impact Assessments: Trends and Approaches

Reviewing trends in Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence
Irit Tamir   session: Human Rights Impact Assessments: Trends and Approaches

Rijnenburg Energy Landscape: participation process from a citizen’s perspective
Jan Nuesink   session: Meaningful participation: Defining this key to IA success and confidence

Scoping in a complex world: an appeal for a broad focus? Lessons learned from the Netherlands
Gisa Vos   session: Good practices of tiering SEA and EIA: How to make it happen?

Shades of Green
Chuck Hubert   session:

Sharing Stewardship: A Model of Collaboration for Environmental Assessments between the Government of Canada & the Cree Nation Government 
Erica Guth and Véronique Lalande   session: More collaboration…better results

Shifts in Resource Management: Collaboration on Cumulative Effects
Carley Coccola and Maya Paul   session: More collaboration…better results

Strategic Assessment of Climate Change under Canada’s 2019 IAA
Christian Reuten   session: First experiences with Canada’s 2019 Impact Assessment Act

Strategic environmental and social assessment of Regional Land-use Plans
Jean-Philippe Waaub   session: Regional assessments: Objectives, approaches, and lessons from practice

Supporting Proponents in Preparation for the Impact Assessment Process
Conor Anderson   session: Planning early for next generation IA: Lessons from BC, Canada, and beyond

The HIA4SD Project: from research to policy dialogue
Mirko Winkler   session: Health impact assessment: Research, policy, and application

The role of impact benefit agreements for environmental assessment
Thomas Gunton   session: Advancing impact assessment: Opportunities, methods, and tools

Tiering in the US and Local Tiering in New York State
Peter Liebowitz   session: Good practices of tiering SEA and EIA: How to make it happen?

Tsleil-Waututh Nation Perspective on the Interpretation and Implementation of UNDRIP
Michelle George and Melanie Walker   session: State-Indigenous processes that advance FPIC requirements under UNDRIP

UNDRIP and FPIC: Getting Beyond the Status Quo
Jay Hartling   session: Beyond consent: Embedding Indigenous decision making in extractive projects

Using HIA to repair relationships and re-connect nature and health
Jade Yehia & Shannon Waters   session: Health impact assessment: Research, policy, and application

Using HIA to repair relationships and re-connect nature and health
Jade Yehia   session: Health impact assessment: Research, policy, and application

What Does Good Look Like?
Shield   session: Are we positive? Is IA prepared to implement positive effects requirements?

Where it’s at: Post approval practices under the new (Canadian) federal assessment process
Patricia Fitzpatrick   session: First experiences with Canada’s 2019 Impact Assessment Act

Available Papers

50th Anniversary of NEPA: Summary of influential U.S. court decisions
P.E. “Pam” Hudson

ANTAMINA: TRANSFORMING 25 YEARS OF DATA TO A BIODIVERSIY CONSERVATION TOOL
Claudia Valencia Franke

Assessing impacts that matter to people: practical examples of assessing psycho-social impacts in environmental impact assessments
Catherine Fairbairn

BASELINING IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: VULNERABILITY OF THE EIA PROCESS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Simon Toogood

Canada Energy Regulator – A Lifecycle Approach to Contamination Remediation
Adele Houston

Caribou habitat and Federal pipeline oversight in Canada
Zoe Pfeiffer

Closing the Gap between National Requirements and International Standards in Social Impact Assessments: Case Study of a Mining Project in Argentina
Vilma Gayoso-Haro

Co-construct tools with territorial stakeholders to assess landscape issues
Brisson Brisson

Confronting Already Significant Existing Cumulative Effects
Marcus Eyre

Developing synergies between isolated corporate areas through NbS language
Nicole Puschel

Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rethinking Environmental Management Plans
Jayson Kurtz

Early lessons in holistic inclusion
Hereward Longley

EIA: A model to facilitate strategic planning and performance management
Bryan Leach

Environmental Stewardship Initiative Lake Babine Nation Wetland Case Study
Nicole Wright

Environmental Stewardship Initiative Lake Babine Nation Wetland Case Study
Nicole Wright

ESG trends on the mining industry. Are we prepared?
Mariel Palomeque

ESIA of a payment for environmental services project in the Amazon region, Brazil
Miguel Coutinho

ESMF Rural Development and Climate Resilience Project Gilgit Baltistan
Nazia Ahmed

ESMF Rural Development and Climate Resilience Project Gilgit Baltistan
Nazia Ahmed

ESMF Rural Development and Climate Resilience Project Gilgit Baltistan
Nazia Ahmed

ESMF Rural Development and Climate Resilience Project Gilgit Baltistan
Nazia Ahmed

Evolution in Guidance for EIA Implementation as a Confidence Building Measure: A Comparative Case Study of Brazil, Chile, and Colombia
John Loomis

GBA+ in Socio-Economic Assessment: Advancing Methodology in Context
Bethany Haalboom

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Italy: what’s new?
Valentina Cavanna

HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT FIT FOR ENERGY TRANSITION
Simone Fortunato Mortara

How can digital tools support stakeholder engagement during lockdown?
Emanuele Bobbio

How incorporating ESG concepts is reshaping Chilean mining projects
Andrés López

Identifying the Bottleneck in the Adoption of Biodiversity Offsets in EIA Systems of Japan
Leah Han

Impact asessment at-a-glance: Process booklets for a wide audience
Jeremy Freeman

Impacts of covid-19 pandemic on rural livelihoods and food security: potential strategies to enhance resilience
Munyaradzi Chitakira

Improving our language in describing disturbed sites that are planned for new development
Chuck Hubert

Indigenous-specific cumulative effects assessment methodologies- Modelling Cumulative Effects on Adams Lake Indian Band Territory
Dave Nordquist

International Best Practice Principles for IA Follow-up
Jos Arts and Angus Morrison-Saunders

KPMA’s Wetland Classification Handbook to Improve Confidence in Impact Assessment
Justine Knox

Navigating Fieldwork and Training Through the Pandemic and Gaza Crisis
Fraser Wilkinson

Public Participation and Involvement in Uganda’s EIAs for Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Taako Edema George

Public Participation and Involvement in Uganda’s EIAs for Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Taako Edema George

Public Participation and Involvement in Uganda’s EIAs for Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Taako Edema George

Public Participation and Involvement in Uganda’s EIAs for Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Taako Edema George

Public Participation and Involvement in Uganda’s EIAs for Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Taako Edema George

Public Participation in Impact Assessment- Experiences from Nepal
Milan Dahal

Rebuilding the sustainable transport hierarchy in partnership using HIA
Margaret Douglas

Rebuilding the sustainable transport hierarchy in partnership using HIA
Margaret Douglas

Sharing steps to improve IA by using stronger argument and reasoning
Glenn Brown

SHIFTING BASELINES IN EIA – A GLOBAL BASELINE ANALYSIS
Olga Vdov

Social impact assessment of resource projects in a modern context – challenges and opportunities
Nina Barton

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND EIA IN ARGENTINA, TWO INTERRELATED KEY POINTS
Veronica Giberti

The Contribution of Resilience Assessment to Impact Assessment
Bryan Jenkins

Thinking of SIA through a construction lens
Marielle Rowan

Unfinished conversations: Honouring Indigenous relationships and knowledges in IA
Sage Broomfield

Use of Acoustic Models to Assess Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) Mitigation and Address Uncertainty Regarding Marine Shipping
Deborah Lacroix

Using secondary data to assess knowledge uptake and influence of the Rio Doce Panel
Barbara Souza

Using secondary data to assess knowledge uptake and influence of the Rio Doce Panel
Barbara Souza

When projects change after assessment: The Ship of Theseus, creeping baseline and cumulative baseline
Alan Ehrlich