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Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Volume 38, 2020 - Issue 2: Impact Assessment for the 21st century – what future?
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Transforming IA from the outside in: capacity and levers for strategic assessment

Bram NobleDepartment of Geography & Planning, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 122-125 | Received 11 Jul 2019, Accepted 29 Aug 2019, Published online: 07 Sep 2019
 
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ABSTRACT

Impact assessment (IA) is under pressure to respond to increasingly complex environmental challenges. This paper reflects on the future of IA and argues for a larger and more deliberate role for strategic assessment in response to the complexity and scale of problems being brought to the IA table. It also posits that the drivers for transformation in IA are likely to emerge from creative governance solutions external to IA, more so than from new IA tools, more data, or ‘better’ IA legislation.

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