IAPA Volume 43, Issue 5 (2025)

IAPA Volume 43, Issue 5 (2025)

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Articles in this issue:

Editorial: The environmental impact assessment midlife crisis?
Urmila Jha-Thakur

Explaining variability in cultural impact assessment outcomes: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand
Dyanna Jolly & Michelle Thompson-Fawcett

Addressing climate change in the environmental impact assessment: a study of thermal power plants in Brazil
Maria Rita Raimundo Almeida, André Shindi Hartilek & Fernanda Aparecida Veronez

Reflections on the role of [meta]data in strategic environmental assessment
M. Pereira & A. Polido

Facilitating public scrutiny of EIA reports with open data and artificial intelligence: insights from a Mexican case study
Joaquín Giménez, Tatiana Merino-Benítez, Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia, Fernando Esponda-Darlington & Tila M. Pérez

Strategic environmental assessment in Ireland: sound procedures with opportunities for stronger integration
Riki Therivel, Ainhoa González & Gloriana Vargas Castro

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: public-developer information exchange dynamics during public participation processes in urban and rural projects in Malawi
Juwo Lwesya Sibale & Thomas B. Fischer

Letter to the Editor: Reflections on Ireland’s 2025 EIA conference: enhancing environmental assessment practice for renewable energy projects
Virginia Morejón, Josh Fothergill & Ainhoa González Del Campo

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

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