IAPA Volume 38, Issue 2 (2020): Impact Assessment for the 21st century
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Articles in this issue:
Editorial: Impact assessment for the 21st century – what future?
Sara Bice & Thomas B Fischer
Letter: Impact assessment for the twenty-first century – rising to the challenge
Alan Bond & Jiří Dusík
Embracing evolutionary change to advance impact assessment (IA)
Megan Jones & Angus Morrison-Saunders
The future of impact assessment: problems, solutions and recommendations
Sara Bice
Environmental assessment as an institution of liberal democracy
Sibout Nooteboom
Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for achieving the UN sustainable development goals
Angus Morrison-Saunders, Luis E. Sánchez, Francois Retief, John Sinclair, Meinhard Doelle, Megan Jones, Jan-Albert Wessels & Jenny Pope
Impact assessment: from whale to shark
Riki Therivel
Transforming IA from the outside in: capacity and levers for strategic assessment
Bram Noble
Reflections on Social Impact Assessment in the 21st century
Frank Vanclay
Letter: Can social impact assessment improve social well-being in a future where social inequality is rife?
Ilse Aucamp & Stephan Woodborne
Letter: For IA, a ‘place-based’ towards ‘flow-based’ landslide ahead
Johann Köppel
Strategicness – the core issue of environmental planning and assessment of the 21st century
Gernot Stoeglehner
Transforming the capacity of impact assessment to address persistent global problems
Maria Rosario Partidario
Letter: An administrative justice perspective on improving EIA effectiveness
Francois P Retief, Thomas B Fischer, Reece C Alberts, Claudine Roos & Dirk P Cilliers
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on IA effectiveness in Thailand
Chaunjit Chanchitpricha & Alan J. Bond
Impact assessment for desirable futures: perspectives from East Asia
Sara Bice & Myungjin Kim
Letter: Remaking science-policy interfaces in the quest for effectiveness
Matthew Cashmore, Tuija Hilding-Rydevik, Martin Smutny & Eva Stephansson
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