IAPA Volume 44, Issue 1 (2026)
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
Articles in this issue:
Silent Spring to Woeful Winter
Urmila Jha-Thakur
Questioning the origin of the expression ‘social licence to operate’: challenging current beliefs
Frank Vanclay
The commercial determinants of social impact assessment in the global mining industry
Nicholas Bainton & Anthony Kung
Enhancing biodiversity monitoring in impact assessment follow-up through landscape metrics
Larissa Ribeiro Souza, Carla Grigoletto Duarte, Clarice Borges Matos, Natália Takahashi Margarido, Sueli Harumi Kakinami & Luis Enrique Sánchez
Impacts of offshore wind farms: significant for whom?
Fernanda A. Veronez, Ana Paula A. Dibo, Juliana Siqueira-Gay, Carla G. Duarte, Alexander Turra & Luis E. Sánchez
Benchmarking biodiversity integration in environmental assessments
Lone Kørnøv, Sanne Vammen Larsen, Søren Qvist Eliasen, Emilia Ravn Boess, Davide Geneletti, Lia Laporta, Ana Soares, Yuanzao Zhu, Margarida Monteiro, Maria Rosario Partidario, Karla E. Locher-Krause & Heidi Wittmer
Natural language processing in impact assessment: a review of applications and concerns
Shiu Fung Hung, Pavitra Kumar & Thomas B Fischer
Book Review: What can law offer the challenge of cumulative effects? A Review of Rebecca Nelson, Regulating a thousand cuts: Global law and policy solutions to cumulative environmental problems
Evan Hamman
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