Pub Date : 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2299619
B. Collins, Mustafa Kumral
{"title":"A game theoretic decision-making approach to reduce mine closure risks throughout the mine-life cycle","authors":"B. Collins, Mustafa Kumral","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2299619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2299619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"135 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139387628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2266268
Maria Teresa Markiewicz
{"title":"Consideration of risks to people and the environment related to accidents on natural gas transmission pipelines in LUP and SEA processes in Poland","authors":"Maria Teresa Markiewicz","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2266268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2266268","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"140 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138965028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2273612
Aleksandra Sas-Bojarska, Iwona Orzechowska-Szajda, Krystian Puzdrakiewicz, Magdalena Kiejzik-Głowińska
Although landscapes are often considered public goods, they frequently receive inadequate attention in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), particularly in Poland. This neglect often leads to visible degradation during investment processes. This article examines the case of the Vistula Spit Canal, currently the largest engineering project under construction in Poland. We analysed whether the conclusions drawn in the EIA report, particularly those concerning landscape changes, influenced the decision to proceed with the construction. Although the EIA report described potential landscape changes as both significant and irreversible, the authorities nonetheless approved the project, citing moderate environmental impacts in other areas. This case underscores the tendency to overlook landscape considerations when greenlighting large-scale investments.
{"title":"Landscape, EIA and decision-making. A case study of the Vistula Spit Canal, Poland","authors":"Aleksandra Sas-Bojarska, Iwona Orzechowska-Szajda, Krystian Puzdrakiewicz, Magdalena Kiejzik-Głowińska","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2273612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2273612","url":null,"abstract":"Although landscapes are often considered public goods, they frequently receive inadequate attention in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), particularly in Poland. This neglect often leads to visible degradation during investment processes. This article examines the case of the Vistula Spit Canal, currently the largest engineering project under construction in Poland. We analysed whether the conclusions drawn in the EIA report, particularly those concerning landscape changes, influenced the decision to proceed with the construction. Although the EIA report described potential landscape changes as both significant and irreversible, the authorities nonetheless approved the project, citing moderate environmental impacts in other areas. This case underscores the tendency to overlook landscape considerations when greenlighting large-scale investments.","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2273610
Álvaro Enríquez-de-Salamanca
ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of policies, plans and programmes allow environmental aspects to be incorporated into decision-making. The literature and regulations sometimes present SEA and EIA as isolated silos, but in practice there are intermediate approaches. This paper discusses a number of case studies where the application of EIA and SEA is conceptually unclear, although legally appropriate. The application of SEA or EIA depends in practice on the name of the planning document used, rather than its strategic character, with non-strategic SEAs and strategic EIAs due to a mismatch between planning and EA. The gradual transition between SEA and EIA makes it advisable to establish similar administrative procedures, as well as a common screening stage to determine not only whether or not the proposal should be subject to EA, but also the most appropriate approach. More than one EA process may be necessary throughout the planning cycle, requiring effective tiering. The regulations should define what is considered strategic, and regulate the tiering between SEA and EIA processes.
{"title":"SEA and EIA: uncertain boundaries in Spain","authors":"Álvaro Enríquez-de-Salamanca","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2273610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2273610","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Environmental impact assessment (EIA) of projects and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of policies, plans and programmes allow environmental aspects to be incorporated into decision-making. The literature and regulations sometimes present SEA and EIA as isolated silos, but in practice there are intermediate approaches. This paper discusses a number of case studies where the application of EIA and SEA is conceptually unclear, although legally appropriate. The application of SEA or EIA depends in practice on the name of the planning document used, rather than its strategic character, with non-strategic SEAs and strategic EIAs due to a mismatch between planning and EA. The gradual transition between SEA and EIA makes it advisable to establish similar administrative procedures, as well as a common screening stage to determine not only whether or not the proposal should be subject to EA, but also the most appropriate approach. More than one EA process may be necessary throughout the planning cycle, requiring effective tiering. The regulations should define what is considered strategic, and regulate the tiering between SEA and EIA processes.","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"49 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135169075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2268996
Flavio Saab, Suylan de Almeida Midlej e Silva
ABSTRACTRegulatory impact analysis – RIA – emerged as one of the tools that can provide the regulator with greater capacity to understand the impacts of his/her decisions. Its use promotes increased rigor to the process of creating rules, by collecting empirical data, evidence, and information that help decision making. However, studies carried out around the world show relevant inconsistencies in using RIA, including in Brazil. Therefore, this study sought to investigate the factors that influence RIA quality in the country. After conducting document search and interviews with managers of Brazilian regulatory agencies, we identified that RIA’s low quality can be explained by factors linked to the bureaucratic context, the political process, the influence of actors, the procedures adopted, and the level of knowledge of civil servants.KEYWORDS: Regulatory impact analysisRIAregulationquality Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2261750
Audrey J. Simon, Adithya Pradyumna, Astrid M. Knoblauch, Mirko S. Winkler
ABSTRACT Although Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has been gaining momentum over the past decade, it is still a relatively small field of practice. Here we explore whether possible opportunities to promote the field of HIA can be translated into concrete actions. We pursued an exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach. In a first step, HIA practitioners’ ideas were collected across 18 semi-structured interviews. Building on these insights, a survey questionnaire was developed in a second step, and answers from 25 HIA practitioners were collected in a last step. We found that delivering awareness on HIA creates the most important opportunities. To exploit these opportunities, high potential was recognized in the strengths of HIA practice, namely in broader stakeholder engagement and showcasing HIA’s evidence-based approach. HIA practitioners are best positioned to initiate actions that promote their practice, but they also depend on various influential actors such as governments and the World Health Organization (WHO). Developing an open exchange platform allowing all HIA stakeholders to connect seems an urgent strategy to pursue for strengthening HIA’s popularity, appeal, and reach.
{"title":"Walking the talk: a mixed-methods study investigating current opportunities for promoting health impact assessment practice","authors":"Audrey J. Simon, Adithya Pradyumna, Astrid M. Knoblauch, Mirko S. Winkler","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2261750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2261750","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although Health Impact Assessment (HIA) has been gaining momentum over the past decade, it is still a relatively small field of practice. Here we explore whether possible opportunities to promote the field of HIA can be translated into concrete actions. We pursued an exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach. In a first step, HIA practitioners’ ideas were collected across 18 semi-structured interviews. Building on these insights, a survey questionnaire was developed in a second step, and answers from 25 HIA practitioners were collected in a last step. We found that delivering awareness on HIA creates the most important opportunities. To exploit these opportunities, high potential was recognized in the strengths of HIA practice, namely in broader stakeholder engagement and showcasing HIA’s evidence-based approach. HIA practitioners are best positioned to initiate actions that promote their practice, but they also depend on various influential actors such as governments and the World Health Organization (WHO). Developing an open exchange platform allowing all HIA stakeholders to connect seems an urgent strategy to pursue for strengthening HIA’s popularity, appeal, and reach.","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135644914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2263236
Vanessa Stjernborg
This paper, by highlighting the experiences and reflections of experts and practitioners, aims to increase knowledge of how social impact assessment is managed and handled at various stages of the planning process in major infrastructure investments in Sweden. Interviews were conducted with nine experts and practitioners working with issues of transport planning and social sustainability. The informants represent the national and regional level and three established consultancies. The results largely confirm earlier research, and the area of social impacts assessment in transport planning in Sweden can be seen as being fragmented. Many fundamental issues in the field remain to be addressed for future development, including issues such as public procurement, the role (and competence) of the client, the role (and competence) of the practitioner, how SIA should be included in the whole planning process taking into account the different stages (including how the SIA should be documented, delivered and monitored), how methods should be managed and included, and how the genuine experts should be included, i.e. those living and working in the affected areas.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2023.2260512
Leah G. Pope, Daniel J. Pohl, Amy Ehntholt, Tehya Boswell, Elizabeth Ford, Merrill Rotter, Michael T. Compton
ABSTRACTPretrial detention is associated with negative health and mental health outcomes but new policies that limit its use rarely cite the impact that such changes could have on individual or family-level mental health. This paper describes the potential of mental health impact assessments to be used as a tool in policy decision-making about criminal legal system reforms. An abbreviated, retrospective mental health impact assessment of New York State’s Bail Elimination Act of 2019 was undertaken based on a review of literature to illustrate how reducing pretrial detention impacts social determinants of health and, in turn, mental health. Evidence is presented about the known effects of pretrial detention on eight social determinants of health and the impacts of those on mental health. The evidence demonstrates that policy decisions have important mental health implications that should be considered as part of the deliberative process. This review supports the use of mental health impact assessments to engage communities, inform policy, and address historical inequities in the criminal justice system in order to reduce the consequent mental health disparities.KEYWORDS: Bail reformcriminal justicemental health impact assessmentsocial determinants of health Disclosure statementThere are no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.
{"title":"New York State’s Bail Elimination Act of 2019: a retrospective mental health impact assessment","authors":"Leah G. Pope, Daniel J. Pohl, Amy Ehntholt, Tehya Boswell, Elizabeth Ford, Merrill Rotter, Michael T. Compton","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2260512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2260512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPretrial detention is associated with negative health and mental health outcomes but new policies that limit its use rarely cite the impact that such changes could have on individual or family-level mental health. This paper describes the potential of mental health impact assessments to be used as a tool in policy decision-making about criminal legal system reforms. An abbreviated, retrospective mental health impact assessment of New York State’s Bail Elimination Act of 2019 was undertaken based on a review of literature to illustrate how reducing pretrial detention impacts social determinants of health and, in turn, mental health. Evidence is presented about the known effects of pretrial detention on eight social determinants of health and the impacts of those on mental health. The evidence demonstrates that policy decisions have important mental health implications that should be considered as part of the deliberative process. This review supports the use of mental health impact assessments to engage communities, inform policy, and address historical inequities in the criminal justice system in order to reduce the consequent mental health disparities.KEYWORDS: Bail reformcriminal justicemental health impact assessmentsocial determinants of health Disclosure statementThere are no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACTThis study aims to 1) investigate current stakeholder analysis in Thai Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports, 2) explore the opinions of key informants regarding the elements of stakeholder analysis relevant to Thai EIA, and 3) develop a framework of stakeholder analysis for public participation (PP) in the Thai EIA process. Qualitative methods were employed by reviewing 18 EIA reports, interviewing 36 key informants, and brainstorming in a workshop to develop a framework. The proposed framework of stakeholder analysis includes five domains: 1) context exploration, 2) stakeholder identification, 3) stakeholder categorisation, 4) determination of participation level, and 5) participatory technique selection. The finding suggested that key elements considered in the domains should include the identification of vulnerable groups, the characterisation of stakeholders, getting multiple groups of people involved in determining participation level, and assigning professional facilitator(s) in PP. This study recommends applying conflict resolution strategies e.g. generating informal contact with potential mainstays before public consultation, involving key stakeholders in an advisory committee, and using a local academic mediator.KEYWORDS: Stakeholderstakeholder analysisstakeholder identificationstakeholder categorisationdetermination of participation levelparticipatory technique selection AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank all reviewers for their constructive, critical and insightful comments, which were very helpful in improving this manuscript. We thank Smit Chiramongkol for his support during data collection and Dr Alan Marshall for proofreading the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Data availability statementData sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.Additional informationFundingThis work (Grant No. RGNS 63-172) was supported by Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (OPS MHESI), Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) and Mahidol University.
{"title":"A framework of stakeholder analysis for public participation in EIA process: a case study of Thailand","authors":"Kanang Kantamaturapoj, Chaunjit Chanchitpricha, Parinee Hongsuwan, Pannipa Suebsing, Suwicha Thaweesuk, Suwit Wibulpolprasert","doi":"10.1080/14615517.2023.2261748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2261748","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study aims to 1) investigate current stakeholder analysis in Thai Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports, 2) explore the opinions of key informants regarding the elements of stakeholder analysis relevant to Thai EIA, and 3) develop a framework of stakeholder analysis for public participation (PP) in the Thai EIA process. Qualitative methods were employed by reviewing 18 EIA reports, interviewing 36 key informants, and brainstorming in a workshop to develop a framework. The proposed framework of stakeholder analysis includes five domains: 1) context exploration, 2) stakeholder identification, 3) stakeholder categorisation, 4) determination of participation level, and 5) participatory technique selection. The finding suggested that key elements considered in the domains should include the identification of vulnerable groups, the characterisation of stakeholders, getting multiple groups of people involved in determining participation level, and assigning professional facilitator(s) in PP. This study recommends applying conflict resolution strategies e.g. generating informal contact with potential mainstays before public consultation, involving key stakeholders in an advisory committee, and using a local academic mediator.KEYWORDS: Stakeholderstakeholder analysisstakeholder identificationstakeholder categorisationdetermination of participation levelparticipatory technique selection AcknowledgmentsThe authors thank all reviewers for their constructive, critical and insightful comments, which were very helpful in improving this manuscript. We thank Smit Chiramongkol for his support during data collection and Dr Alan Marshall for proofreading the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Data availability statementData sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.Additional informationFundingThis work (Grant No. RGNS 63-172) was supported by Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (OPS MHESI), Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) and Mahidol University.","PeriodicalId":47528,"journal":{"name":"Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136237529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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