IAPA Volume 43, Issue 1 (2025)

IAPA Volume 43, Issue 1 (2025)

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

IAPA Article Abstract
Articles in this issue:

Editorial: Putting the best foot forward in 2025
Urmila Jha-Thakur

Avoiding harm or creating benefit? How a risk focus sidelines social considerations in early decisions for Australian infrastructure projects
Ruth A. O’Connor, Emerson Sanchez, Sara Bice, Kirsty Jones & Hayley Henderson

Reviewing the quality of Environmental Impact Statements of Brazilian landfills: insights for promoting efficiency in final disposal
Giovano Candiani, Luciana Varanda Rizzo & Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo

Integrating climate change into environmental impact assessments of dams: insights from three case studies using an analytical model
Ana Rita Arnaud Loza & Teresa Fidélis

Applying next-generation community-based environmental assessment: case studies from Kenya
Rajib Biswal, A. John Sinclair, Harry Spaling & Frida N. Mutui

Exploring the implementation of health impact assessment in Portuguese Public Health System
Luciana Maria Gonçalves da Costa, Alexandra Costa, Ana Catarina Dias Ferreira, Piedad Martin-Olmedo & Liz Green

Analysis of EA as an instrument for wetland protection: insights from the mining sector in western and northern Canada
Guilhermo Lombardi Garbellini, Cherie J. Westbrook & Bram F. Noble

Professional Practice Paper: Co-production of public policy to mitigate animal-vehicle collisions on roads in Brazil
Larissa Oliveira Gonçalves, Thales Andres Carra, Vanessa Suzana Cavaglieri Fonseca, Juliana Moreno Pina, Vinicius Travalini, Ana Luisa Tondin Mengardo, Luna Barreto Bernstein, Claudia Terdiman Schaalmann, Marcela Bentes Alves Baptista, Vivian Marrani de Azevedo Marques, Renata Ramos Mendonça, Camilo Fragoso Giorgi & Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi de Barros Ferraz

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

About IAPA

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, an international refereed journal with six issues per year, is the official publication of IAIA. IAPA contains a variety of peer-reviewed research articles, professional practice ideas, and book reviews of recently published titles. IAPA is published by Taylor and Francis (UK). 

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