IAPA Volume 41, Issue 3 (2023)

IAPA Volume 41, Issue 3 (2023)

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

IAPA Article Abstract
Articles in this issue:

Editorial: Impact assessment publishing – observations and reflections after 7 years of being editor of impact assessment and project appraisal
Thomas B. Fischer

Simplification of environmental and other impact assessments – results from an international online survey
Thomas B Fischer, Alberto Fonseca, Gesa Geißler, Urmila Jha-Thakur, Francois Retief, Reece Alberts & Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

Environmental assessment simplification in Spain: streamlining or weakening procedures?
Ainhoa González & Iñigo Sobrini

Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden
Charlotta Faith-Ell

Weak Participation and Ideological Exemption: The Latest Stage of EIA Simplification in Brazil?
Alberto Fonseca

Three decades of EIA streamlining: Lessons from South Africa
Reece C. Alberts, Francois P. Retief, Claudine Roos & Dirk P. Cilliers

EA simplification: Canadian processes and challenges
Bram F Noble

The future of impact assessment in Austria and Germany – streamlining impact assessment to save the planet?
Gesa Geißler & Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

Is there any EIA simplification?: reflections on procedural aspects of the Polish system
Anna Haładyj, Katarzyna Tokarczyk-Dorociak & Łukasz Szkudlarek

Unfolding simplification beyond drawbacks: types and reasoning for simplifying environmental assessment
Lone Kørnøv & Ivar Lyhne

Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?
Thomas B Fischer

Don’t Shoot the Messenger – Reflections on streamlining and simplification of Environmental Assessment in the Netherlands
Jos Arts & Hans de Vries

Three decades of EIA reforms in India: reflections on the complexities of simplifications
Urmila Jha-Thakur

Note: The IAIA Resource Library contains all issues since 2020. For earlier issues, visit the publisher’s website.

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