IAIA24 Abstracts
A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of SEA in Thailand
Abstract ID# 279
Presenting Author: Pichayut Viwatrujirapong
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Evaluating the effectiveness of two pilot SEA studies in Thailand, using a developed evaluation framework that incorporates context. Improvement strategies are also developed and validated.
Acceptance Status: approve
Intercultural Classroom: Social Management Tool
Abstract ID# 665
Presenting Author: Alberto Jara Hamann | Coauthor(s): Galo Omar Díaz Meléndez
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Structure of the methodological tool Intercultural Classroom; five moments: presentation, previous knowledge, dialogued exposition, applying and verifying what has been learned what. Results experienc
Acceptance Status: approve
NatureTech to measure and deliver Net Gains for biodiversity - eDNA
Abstract ID# 177
Presenting Author: Pippa Howard | Coauthor(s): Owen Middleton
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: A demonstration on how eDNA provides fit-for-purpose metrics that enable net gain baselining, target setting, monitoring and tracking.
Acceptance Status: approve
"Are Coastal Regions More Vulnerable to Climate Change than Inland Areas?"
Abstract ID# 430
Presenting Author: sunmin jun | Coauthor(s): juchul jung
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: Coastal Regions: Challenges, Vulnerability, and Livability
Acceptance Status: approve
111111 IAIA Test
Abstract ID# 753
Presenting Author: Carlos Quintero
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: 111111 IAIA Test
Acceptance Status: approve
A case for harnessing nuisance in freshwater ecosystems in Niger Delta
Abstract ID# 194
Presenting Author: Ijeoma Vincent-Akpu | Coauthor(s): Chinogozim Vincent-Akpu
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: Freshwater in Niger Delta is being riddled with plastics, invasive species and flooding in addition to oil pollution. The paper discusses the beneficial alternatives to tackle these nuisance.
Acceptance Status: approve
A discussion on the prospect of nature-based solution for climate change
Abstract ID# 670
Presenting Author: Lookman Issa
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: In summary, the paper weighs heavily the pro-nbs arguments with contra-nbs arguments as found in contemporary studies.
Acceptance Status: approve
A dual perspective on the SEA Directive: Legal mandates and Sustainability
Abstract ID# 609
Presenting Author: Ulf Kjellerup | Coauthor(s): Lone Kørnøv
Preferred Session: The SEA Directive in EU, 20 Years on, implementation and effectiveness.
Summary Statement: Between legal scope of application and achieving sustainable development in SEA
Acceptance Status: approve
A fast and green transition : are just and fast compatible
Abstract ID# 99
Presenting Author: Marie-Eve Lemieux | Coauthor(s): Marie-Josee Grimard
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: The presentation will cover the challenges face by the energy sector and explore a case study of over thirty years of evolving practices where First Nations coexists with hydropower installations.
Acceptance Status: approve
A focus on effective IA Screening and Scoping
Abstract ID# 483
Presenting Author: Jan Grobler
Preferred Session: Impact assessment: enabling or constraining sustainable energy transitions?
Summary Statement: Effective Screening and Scoping is a key prerequisite for impact assessment to enable a sustainable energy transition.
Acceptance Status: approve
A just transition - for whom?
Abstract ID# 353
Presenting Author: Vidette Bester | Coauthor(s): Jessica Edwards
Preferred Session: What role does IA play in a responsible exit from the fossil fuel sector?
Summary Statement: We have applied the lessons learned from within the mining industry, a sector at the center of the just transition debate, to propose ways of building transformation into the just transition movement.
Acceptance Status: approve
A New Frontier for Biodiversity Monitoring & NPI: eDNA derived from insects
Abstract ID# 581
Presenting Author: Vere Ross-Gillespie | Coauthor(s): Harrison Tan
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: Environmental DNA (eDNA) derived biodiversity layers represents a game changer for Net Positive Impact monitoring and mine site planning. We demonstrate a model for its application globally.
Acceptance Status: approve
A polyphonic concept of Just Transformation: Strengthening its agency
Abstract ID# 570
Presenting Author: Luis Alberto Lopez Espinoza
Preferred Session: Remember the intangibles and spiritual values for a just transition
Summary Statement: This paper seeks to incorporate the intercultural dimension from the Shipibo perspective into the Just Transformation discussion within the framework of IA and Sustainable Development Goals.
Acceptance Status: approve
A scorecard to assess and improve infrastructure engagement
Abstract ID# 242
Presenting Author: Ruth O'Connor | Coauthor(s): Kirsty Jones
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: This presentation describes a scorecard that assesses infrastructure engagement excellence in contract management and discusses opportunities and barriers to benchmarking performance
Acceptance Status: approve
A SimCity EIA approach to facilitate just transformation ?
Abstract ID# 418
Presenting Author: Raymond WONG | Coauthor(s): Grace KWOK
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Exploration of SimCity-based approach for research or science-based visual impact communication
Acceptance Status: approve
A SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT TOOL OF GIS, LCA, AND SOCIAL COSTS FOR ENERGY
Abstract ID# 606
Presenting Author: NGO PHUONG | Coauthor(s): Tin Htoo
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Examines crop residue management in Myanmar & Vietnam. Small-scale rice straw biogas is cost-effective; medium & large-scale operations are costly. Suggests exploring alternative renewable energy opti
Acceptance Status: approve
A Tool to Support Indigenous Participation in Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 419
Presenting Author: Matthew Carlson
Preferred Session: Multi-dimensional cumulative effects assessment with Indigenous peoples
Summary Statement: A modeling platform to support Indigenous participation in environmental impact assessment through evaluation of cumulative effects to traditional land use in Alberta, Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
A transformative Framework for Socioeconomic Cumulative Effect Assessment
Abstract ID# 446
Presenting Author: Effah Antwi | Coauthor(s): John Boakye-Danquah
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: The study introduces a culturally tailored, multi-dimensional framework to holistically assess the impacts of mining on Indigenous communities in Canada, addressing often overlooked health, economic,
Acceptance Status: approve
A typology of approaches to regional cumulative effects assessment
Abstract ID# 437
Presenting Author: Jenny Pope | Coauthor(s): Renee Young
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper presents a typology of approaches to regional cumulative effects assessment (RCEA), representing the diversity of practice. The application of RCEA to transitions in mining region
Acceptance Status: approve
Achieving a just transformation in Australia’s renewable energy zones
Abstract ID# 200
Presenting Author: Sharon Harwood | Coauthor(s): Dave Blair
Preferred Session: How prepared is IA for next-generation renewable energy megaprojects?
Summary Statement: How the outcomes of a strategic environmental and social assessment can be used to achieve a just transformation in Australia’s renewable energy zones.
Acceptance Status: approve
Activities in Protected Areas: From Impacts to Value Components
Abstract ID# 20
Presenting Author: Marie-Claude Martel
Preferred Session: Marine Impact Assessments for Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: Balancing beneficial activities for coastal communities with maintaining conservation objectives presents unique challenges when conducting impact assessments in marine protected areas.
Acceptance Status: approve
Adaptive Coastal Development Management: Red Sea Turtle Nesting
Abstract ID# 544
Presenting Author: David McGrath | Coauthor(s): Yanni Smith , Shah Raees Khan , Kashif Sheikh , Yara Aldrees
Preferred Session: Marine Impact Assessments for Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: The challenges and prospects of ensuring protection to the Turtle habitat in the pre-concept design phase of the development in the Al Wajh Lagoon, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia.
Acceptance Status: approve
Addressing Varied Interests of Resettled Groups in the Declaration
Abstract ID# 183
Presenting Author: Dolores Koenig
Preferred Session: Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR)
Summary Statement: This panel discussion session will discuss the launch of a Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement developed by a multi-stakeholder group
Acceptance Status: approve
Advances in policy and practice on the mitigation hierarchy in Mozambique
Abstract ID# 245
Presenting Author: Hugo Costa | Coauthor(s): Eleutério Duarte
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation will show how Mozambique as integrated no net loss / net gain in biodiversity in its environmental assessment legislation, in line with national biodiversity targets.
Acceptance Status: approve
Advancing cumulative effects (CE) research in Canada in support of IA.
Abstract ID# 604
Presenting Author: Brian Eddy | Coauthor(s): Christina Clarke
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: With over 300 new resource development projects planned or in development, Natural Resources Canada is advancing innovative research in cumulative effects in support of impact assessments (IAs).
Acceptance Status: approve
Advancing E&S IA for Operations at the World Bank with AI Technology
Abstract ID# 518
Presenting Author: Hak Joo Song | Coauthor(s): Elhadji Amadou Oury Diallo
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: The World Bank is using AI technology to enhance ESF processes including E&S risk assessments, showing a promising direction with an 85% satisfaction rate in WB projects and improving efficiency.
Acceptance Status: approve
Advancing ESIA for a Just Transition
Abstract ID# 644
Presenting Author: Dean Slocum
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: Firsthand experience from ESIAs to highlight the advances forced by the Justice40 initiative and consider how these advances will continue to shape the application of GIIP in ESIA in the US.
Acceptance Status: approve
Advancing Indigenous Led Assessment In Canada
Abstract ID# 498
Presenting Author: Rosanne Van Schie | Coauthor(s): Sara Mainville
Preferred Session: Emerging Practices in Indigenous-led Environmental Assessment
Summary Statement: This research provides examples, experiences, and information about advancing Indigenous-led impact assessment in Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Adventurers in Dangerous Places: Assessing Environmental Impacts in Conflic
Abstract ID# 302
Presenting Author: Charles Kelly
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: The presentation will focus on environmental impact assessments in conflict-affected countries as part of integrating environmental considerations into humanitarian responses.
Acceptance Status: approve
Adverse Impacts for Native Hawaiians from Renewable Geothermal Energy
Abstract ID# 638
Presenting Author: Michael Edelstein
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment to help make transformation more just
Summary Statement: PsychoSocial Impact on Native Hawaiians from renewable Geothermal Energy is assessed for harm to indigenous belief and practice and direct effects on proximate populations, including release of potent
Acceptance Status: approve
Agent-based assessment for China’s new integrated environmental zoning
Abstract ID# 312
Presenting Author: Zeyang Wei | Coauthor(s): Zishu Wang
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: The potential influence of integrated environmental zoning on industrial layouts and pollution control was predicted using agent-based modelling, and the policy implications were provided.
Acceptance Status: approve
Agrivoltaics Capitalisation: A just energy transition for food production
Abstract ID# 103
Presenting Author: Anne Dansey
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: The Agrivoltaics Capitalisation program supports the next phase of Research and Industry Development activity to support energy transition and emissions reduction targets for Victorian Agric
Acceptance Status: approve
Alberta and Regional Impact Assessments
Abstract ID# 411
Presenting Author: Gavin Fitch
Preferred Session: From the top down: Are regional assessments the key to sustainability?
Summary Statement: The Land Stewardship Act was arguably ahead of its time in instituting regional effects assessment to foster sustainable development, but its potential has been largely unrealized.
Acceptance Status: approve
An analysis of the NEMA S30A Directives issued to eThekwini Municipality
Abstract ID# 323
Presenting Author: Zinhle Dlamini
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: In my proposed presentation I will look at the validity, conditions as prescribed on the Directives, the ability of the City to comply with the Directives and its effectiveness at local government.
Acceptance Status: approve
An Authentic Approach for Managing Biodiversity at Pipelines
Abstract ID# 233
Presenting Author: Berna Karaduman | Coauthor(s): Roberto Mezzalama
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: TANAP, with its strategies to net gain and no net loss in critical and natural habitats, will achieve transformation by implementation and monitoring of the biodiversity offset projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
An energy company’s experience in ESHIA for energy transition developments
Abstract ID# 675
Presenting Author: Paloma Pareja Fernandez
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: This presentation provides examples of recent case studies as well as a detailed review of practical learnings in applying GIIP for ESHIA in the US
Acceptance Status: approve
An Indigenous conceptual model for transformative environmental governance
Abstract ID# 677
Presenting Author: Lawrence Ignace
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: An Indigenous conceptual model to re-position sustainable social-ecological outcomes within an cumulative effects centered framework.
Acceptance Status: approve
Analysis of the EIA of Landfills for Sustainability in Perú
Abstract ID# 351
Presenting Author: Johanna Poggi | Coauthor(s): July Zegarra
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This article will seek to know if the landfills evaluated had more or less incidence in socio-environmental conflicts, contributing to a Just Transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Analysis of the Implementation of the UNDRIP through Regional Assessments
Abstract ID# 336
Presenting Author: Mathilde Butler
Preferred Session: Decolonising SIA through the attitudes and beliefs of practitioners
Summary Statement: This presentation provides a critical analysis of the extent to which Indigenous rights have been asserted through regional assessments (RAs) under the Impact Assessment Act (IAA19) in Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Analysis of the influencing factors for enhancing social license to operate
Abstract ID# 299
Presenting Author: Kultip Suwanteep
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: This study identifies and analyzes the influencing factors from the stakeholders' perspective to enhance social license to operate.
Acceptance Status: approve
Applying the RE-AIM framework to evaluate an environmental policy in China
Abstract ID# 167
Presenting Author: Dan Xie
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: RE-AIM framework aids environmental policy evaluation, tailored to unique characteristics, supporting government in refining policies.
Acceptance Status: approve
Assessing China's provincial level energy justice and its driving factors
Abstract ID# 154
Presenting Author: Ruilian Zhang
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: This study delves into the evaluation of energy justice at the provincial level in China and the underlying factors that shape it. Energy justice is a critical facet of sustainable development, and un
Acceptance Status: approve
Assessing the Impacts of Road Bypasses on the Environment and Livelihoods:
Abstract ID# 76
Presenting Author: Beryl Adormaa Buanya | Coauthor(s): Irene Yeboah , Antoinette Salmata Gabby Hayes
Preferred Session: Practical cases on Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Global South
Summary Statement: The study examines the impact of road bypasses, emphasizing the need for comprehensive planning and mitigation strategies. It contributes valuable insights to the road development discourse.
Acceptance Status: approve
Assessing Underwater Cultural Heritage from Geophysical data.
Abstract ID# 486
Presenting Author: Tim Marples | Coauthor(s): Andy Emery
Preferred Session: Underwater Cultural Heritage: Developing Approaches and Improving Data
Summary Statement: Doggerland and Sea Country case-studies illustrate current technical issues delivering underwater cultural heritage assessments from the perspectives of a Heritage Consultancy and our stakeholders.
Acceptance Status: approve
Assessment of Bui Hydroelectric Project Impact Mitigation Measures in Ghana
Abstract ID# 98
Presenting Author: Vitus Tankpa | Coauthor(s): Joyce Ocansey
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: A survey of social, economic, health and environmental impact mitigation measures in resettled community revealed the social and environmental measures were more effective than the others.
Acceptance Status: approve
Assessment of locally available seaweeds as sustainable organic compost fer
Abstract ID# 352
Presenting Author: Durlave Roy | Coauthor(s): Durlave Roy
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: Seaweed, Plant Growth, Organic Material, northern fertilizer, Sustainable.
Acceptance Status: approve
Assessment on carbon baseline and sink scenario through rehabilitation
Abstract ID# 573
Presenting Author: Desi Trianingsih | Coauthor(s): Dwi Arianto Harto Darsono
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: This study will help the KPH Sawitto and other KPH in Indonesia, to know the gaps and fulfill the requirement in order to support emission reduction through FOLU activities.
Acceptance Status: approve
Attitudes, behaviours and practices that perpetuate coloniality in project-community relations
Abstract ID# 754
Presenting Author: Alex Cisneros
Preferred Session: Decolonising SIA through the attitudes and beliefs of practitioners
Summary Statement: This presentation discusses SIA as a relational practice and presents the attitudes, behaviours and practices which can foster dominant and antagonistic relations in project development.
Acceptance Status: approve
Australia: a ‘late-bloomer’ in regional assessments
Abstract ID# 257
Presenting Author: Carolyn Cameron
Preferred Session: From the top down: Are regional assessments the key to sustainability?
Summary Statement: Peer review insights to bolster the Australian national regional assessment programme, targeted at managing cumulative impacts associated with biodiversity and development hotspots.
Acceptance Status: approve
Australian mining of ETMs in South Africa: Curse or blessing?
Abstract ID# 658
Presenting Author: L Janelle Ellis Schiemer | Coauthor(s): N/A
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: Case study focused in the southern hemisphere regarding the social impacts of critical mineral extraction for a vulnerable host-community in an emerging economy
Acceptance Status: approve
Baffled systems or culturally incompetent impact assessment
Abstract ID# 286
Presenting Author: Jane Munday
Preferred Session: Decolonising SIA through the attitudes and beliefs of practitioners
Summary Statement: Decolonisation of impact assessment requires First Nations’ agency over the research, decision-making and governance of impact assessment. Yet, most regulatory structures remain culturally incompetent
Acceptance Status: approve
Balancing the fast deployment of wind energy and the EIA application
Abstract ID# 719
Presenting Author: Leila Neimane
Preferred Session: Streamlining Environmental Assessments to Enable Transformation
Summary Statement: The study recommends maintaining a proper balance between equitable and just EIA and rapid wind energy deployment in the countries bordering the Baltic Sea and North Sea.
Acceptance Status: approve
Barriers and Facilitators to Just Transformation in Nigeria
Abstract ID# 724
Presenting Author: Marcus Edino
Preferred Session: The role of environmental management strategies for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper examines the barriers that Nigeria needs to overcome to become a reference point for Just Transformation in Africa and the facilitators of this all important urgent transformation agenda.
Acceptance Status: approve
Becoming a regulator: policy making towards a devolved administration
Abstract ID# 222
Presenting Author: Kirk Roberts
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: In AlUla County, Saudi Arabia, an IA focused approach is providing fundamental support to the policy-making process as part of the transition to a devolved authority
Acceptance Status: approve
Better explain EIA for a Better Public Participation:Review and Outlook
Abstract ID# 161
Presenting Author: Lina Lachapelle | Coauthor(s): Jean Hébert
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: AQÉI launched in 2021 a study which combine ESIA and scientific vulgarization expertise to propose a new set of communication activities and new models of ESIA report and statement.
Acceptance Status: approve
Beyond “do no harm”: lessons from green transition works in Africa and Asia
Abstract ID# 208
Presenting Author: Emelie César | Coauthor(s): Anders Ekbom
Preferred Session: Opportunities for int. development cooperation to go beyond 'do no significant harm'
Summary Statement: Lessons are shared from two programs strengthening higher education and research-policy interaction in LMI countries for green just transitions with focus on Inclusive green economy and SEA.
Acceptance Status: approve
Biodiversity Benefits? No Net Loss & Net Gain approaches in Peru & the UK
Abstract ID# 574
Presenting Author: Claudia Valencia Franke | Coauthor(s): Milagros Saloma , Claire Wansbury , Juan Tito
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: Peru and the UK are at different stages of applying NNL, BNG and ENG. We will compare projects where AtkinsRéalis used these concepts and share opportunities and challenges found.
Acceptance Status: approve
Biodiversity Credits - what are they and how can they be used?
Abstract ID# 539
Presenting Author: Steve Edwards
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation will explore progress-to-date regarding biodiversity credits, what they are, how they are used, and some of the safeguards that should be considered for using them..
Acceptance Status: approve
Biodiversity mainstreaming in renewable energy projects in Uganda
Abstract ID# 216
Presenting Author: Mulumba Agaba
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: This study evaluates Uganda's EIA for biodiversity integration in renewable energy projects, emphasizing data collection and monitoring for sustainable development and conservation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Biodiversity Risk Management for Challenging International Projects
Abstract ID# 344
Presenting Author: Dave Massey | Coauthor(s): Jo Nightingale , Simon Boulter , James Richardson , Doug Tilbury
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: This presentation will explore biodiversity risk management for safeguarding priority biodiversity values in challenging international projects, featuring various case studies.
Acceptance Status: approve
Biodiversity risk screening: Identifying risks and opportunities
Abstract ID# 660
Presenting Author: Suzanne Livingstone | Coauthor(s): Joe Turner , Emma Tatum-Hume , James Hutchison , Adeline Serckx & Malcolm Starkey
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: Biodiversity risk screening: Identifying risks and opportunities at the corporate and site level to support corporate disclosure reporting and identifying where developers need to focus resources.
Acceptance Status: approve
Biodiversity sweetspots for greater protection in Mekong’s 3S rivers
Abstract ID# 349
Presenting Author: Peter-John Meynell
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: As a contribution to developing a planning Atlas for the 3S river basins in Lower Mekong, areas of high biodiversity assets (Sweet-spots) are identified and compared with Hotspots of human pressure.
Acceptance Status: approve
Brazil ES Overview Assessment: Strengthening Borrower's Capacity & Systems
Abstract ID# 636
Presenting Author: Guilherme Faro | Coauthor(s): Eric Shayer , Alberto Costa , Sofia Ferreira , Ana Carolina Cordeiro & Carlos Diniz
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Development of an E&S decision-support toolkit for the borrowers to better design and coordinate projects’ ES compliance strategy, and, promote more sustainable and resilient projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Bringing local communities as players for biodiversity compensation
Abstract ID# 209
Presenting Author: Suzanne Cotillon
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: How to promote convergence between communities’ engagement and private sector compensation goals using long-term conservation agreements? Lessons learnt from COMBO+ in Guinea.
Acceptance Status: approve
Building a successful Just Transition from coal mining in western Ukraine
Abstract ID# 47
Presenting Author: Victoria Griffiths
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: Development of a Pilot Study for Just Transition in the west of Ukraine.
Acceptance Status: approve
Building an Multi-Nation Indigenous Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment
Abstract ID# 676
Presenting Author: Charmaine Bossé | Coauthor(s): Courtney Halvorson
Preferred Session: Meaningful Impact Assessments Through Indigenous Leadership
Summary Statement: A co-presentation between Transport Canada and the First Nations Fisheries Council of BC on bringing together Coastal First Nations to assess the regional Cumulative Effects of Marine Shipping.
Acceptance Status: approve
Building Evidence to Unlock Impact Finance for Clean Cooking co-benefits
Abstract ID# 417
Presenting Author: Zijun Li
Preferred Session: Clean cooking solutions for a safe, clean, and healthy environment
Summary Statement: The report field-tests novel co-benefit measurement methodologies for a biogas intervention in rural Kenya, demonstrating the methods’ feasibility and potential, as well as areas for improvement.
Acceptance Status: approve
Building the Rights Environment for Due Diligence
Abstract ID# 210
Presenting Author: Seán O'Connell
Preferred Session: Connecting People and Planet: Respecting the environment and human rights
Summary Statement: Guiding business on integrating human rights and environmental due diligence in the frame of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution
Acceptance Status: approve
Can Green Hydrogen be produced without significant biodiversity risks?
Abstract ID# 357
Presenting Author: jessica Hughes | Coauthor(s): Warren McCleland , Stuart Heather-Clark , Jeremy Blood , Dylan Moodaley
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: Green hydrogen is touted as solution to climate change. Can it be done within acceptable limits for biodiversity loss? How do such projects stack up against lender requirements
Acceptance Status: approve
Canada’s Approach to Increase Regulatory Efficiency for Clean Growth Projec
Abstract ID# 384
Presenting Author: Wesley Moore
Preferred Session: Streamlining Environmental Assessments to Enable Transformation
Summary Statement: Provide an overview of the Government of Canada’s approach to increase regulatory integration and efficiency for major clean growth projects to achieve net-zero commitments.
Acceptance Status: approve
Canadian Indigenous led assessments and regional cumulative effects
Abstract ID# 287
Presenting Author: Kevin Hanna
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Recent Canadian cases in Indigenous led impact assessment provide guidance on how to link and account for cumulative biophysical and social effects in assessment at multiple scales.
Acceptance Status: approve
Capturing the health and well-being impact of climate change:a HIA in Wales
Abstract ID# 35
Presenting Author: Liz Green
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: The paper highlights how Health Impact Assessment is a useful tool to inform policy and decision makers around the health, well-being and equity impacts of climate change both now and in the future.
Acceptance Status: approve
Careful argument can improve IA processes
Abstract ID# 404
Presenting Author: Glenn Brown
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: Well tested but not well-known tools of argument can focus attention, clarify reasoning, yield shorter and clearer documents, aid policy-making and add transparency to IA processes.
Acceptance Status: approve
Catalyse transformation in spatial planning: EA for biodiversity valuation
Abstract ID# 500
Presenting Author: Margarida Monteiro | Coauthor(s): Ana Soares , Maria Partidário , Sanne Larsen , Lone Kornov
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: We aim to understand how closely actual Environmental Assessment practices adhere to best practices guidelines to promote the valuation of biodiversity in spatial planning.
Acceptance Status: approve
Catalyzing Benefit Sharing through Cultural Co-adaptation
Abstract ID# 275
Presenting Author: Leticia Solaun | Coauthor(s): Suzanne Moreland
Preferred Session: Benefit-sharing for a fair and just transformation.
Summary Statement: This paper describes the Cultural Co-adaptation Benefit Framework and addresses the impact of collaborative adaptation to enhance equitable benefit sharing, resilience, and social value.
Acceptance Status: approve
Challenges for impact assessment in Offshore Wind Energy Development
Abstract ID# 386
Presenting Author: Carla Grigoletto Duarte | Coauthor(s): Dibo Ana Paula , Siqueira-Gay Juliana , Márcia Regina Denadai , Alexander Turra & Luis Enrique Sánchez
Preferred Session: How prepared is IA for next-generation renewable energy megaprojects?
Summary Statement: Despite the pressure to streamline IA for new energy developments, we cannot give up adequate data, team, time and timing, as well as participative governance arrangements.
Acceptance Status: approve
Chiefs of Ontario Environmental Assessment Toolkit
Abstract ID# 597
Presenting Author: Kathleen Padulo
Preferred Session: Meaningful Impact Assessments Through Indigenous Leadership
Summary Statement: Indigenous Peoples need to co-lead or conduct their own environmental assessments.
Acceptance Status: approve
CIA for renewable energy projects that support nature positive goals
Abstract ID# 607
Presenting Author: Rachel Asante Owusu | Coauthor(s): Annie Dakmejian
Preferred Session: Practical cases on Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Global South
Summary Statement: Aligning Cumulative Impact Assessment with broader biodiversity goals to accelerate a pathway towards nature positive .
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate chage impact assessement in Korea
Abstract ID# 291
Presenting Author: GeunBae Kim | Coauthor(s): jinwon Seo
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: This presentation will look at Korea's climate change impact assessment system, We want to share the achievements and problems through several types of cases, and hear opinions from experts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate change and its impacts in rural areas of Pakistan: a Literature rev
Abstract ID# 168
Presenting Author: Abdul Rasool Khoso | Coauthor(s): Jintu Gu , Shahnaz Bhutto
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: A literature review on climate change in rural Pakistan reveals concerning environmental shifts and challenges affecting vulnerable rural communities.
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate change in Danish impact assessment practice: The ugly duck?
Abstract ID# 120
Presenting Author: Ivar Lyhne | Coauthor(s): Lone Kørnøv
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: This presentation unfolds critical aspects of Danish EA practice on assessing GHG emissions and recent agreement among key Danish stakeholders on GHG significance determination approaches.
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate Change Risk Assessment in ESIA: methodological and practical issues
Abstract ID# 485
Presenting Author: Roberto Mezzalama | Coauthor(s): Cristian Villata , Massimo Dragan , Jacopo Grassi
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: The presentation will explore some methodological and practical issues in the integration of Climate Change Risk Assessment in ESIA, looking at the current available methodologies and some r
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate Change: Risks, Challenges, and Adaptation & Mitigation Strategies
Abstract ID# 284
Presenting Author: Tony Fang
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: This study aims to advance the knowledge of the causes, impacts and mechanisms of climate change on the human-nature coupling systems, and identify mitigation and adaptation strategies and practices.
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate Financing: Achieving Impacts with Sustainable Financing Policy
Abstract ID# 450
Presenting Author: Jianliang Xiao
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Through case study, the article presents financing policies and environmental and social management tools of the New Development Bank for projects contributing to climate change
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate Justice through EA c:Case Study of Nepal's Hydropower sector
Abstract ID# 305
Presenting Author: Navaraj Pokharel | Coauthor(s): Bindu Adhikari Adhikari
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: Each project has invested more than 1 % of construction cost as Environment Management cost. River banks and near about area with the support of the Hydropower Impact Assessment and management system
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate Risk Assessment for a site in the Amazon Region.
Abstract ID# 520
Presenting Author: Victor Barbosa | Coauthor(s): Amanda Carvalho
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Climate risk assessment for internal and external assets in a mining site located in the Amazon Region, for three different temporal scenarios.
Acceptance Status: approve
Climate-Workshop Juist - Youth protecting island & sea
Abstract ID# 691
Presenting Author: Ingo Johannes Cremer
Preferred Session: Just Transition and Transformation of the Coast and Maritime
Summary Statement: The Youth of Juist developed practical solutions for a sustainable island. They were blocked by the elders although a tornado went over the island in the week of public presentation..
Acceptance Status: approve
Collaborative Development of a Northern Canadian Regional Assessment
Abstract ID# 704
Presenting Author: Kim Pawley | Coauthor(s): Brett Wheler , Mark Cliffe-Phillips
Preferred Session: Partnerships in Impact Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Federal, territorial and Indigenous governments in Northern Canada collaborate to design strategic regional assessment to examine cumulative effects related to mining and other development.
Acceptance Status: approve
Committing to Net Gain in the Colombian High Mountain Ecosystems
Abstract ID# 728
Presenting Author: Andres Amaya | Coauthor(s): Milton Sandoval , Victoria Romero
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: Applied ecosystem integrity modeling in Colombian high mountain andean ecosystems offer insight and opportunities for committing to biodiversity net gain.
Acceptance Status: approve
Community Benefit Sharing Mechanisms throughout Europe
Abstract ID# 202
Presenting Author: Yvonne Cronin
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: Learnings from Europe’s major operators’ community benefit mechanisms and its application to community benefit sharing frameworks to enhance stakeholder engagement in a just transition
Acceptance Status: approve
Community Energy contribution to a just transition
Abstract ID# 433
Presenting Author: Francisco Merino
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: Local Energy and Community Energy
Acceptance Status: approve
Community Engagement; A Social Inclusion Tool Towards Just Transformation
Abstract ID# 78
Presenting Author: Antoinette Salmata GABBY HAYES | Coauthor(s): Irene Yeboah
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: The paper seeks to explore the significance of community engagement in promoting sustainable infrastructure development whiles taking into consideration the concept of social inclusion.
Acceptance Status: approve
Community health as key aspect of Social Impact for a Mining company
Abstract ID# 594
Presenting Author: francesca viliani
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: The presentation details the experience of implementing corporate CHS requirements at multiple mining sites, main issues identified, challenges of HIA delivery globally, opportunities for development
Acceptance Status: approve
Community health monitoring of the Trident Copper Project
Abstract ID# 530
Presenting Author: Astrid Knoblauch | Coauthor(s): Tato Nyirenda , Kahilu Temple Mumba , Mark J. Divall , Kylie van der Merwe
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: Repeated health surveys help to reveal differences between population subgroups and are an opportunity to promote social inclusion in health impact management and health promotion.
Acceptance Status: approve
Community owned/co-owned wind farms: Citizens’ willingness to participate
Abstract ID# 394
Presenting Author: Bernadette Power | Coauthor(s): Gordon Sirr
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: This paper uses data from a survey Irish citizens (826) to examine the extent and the determinants of citizens’ willingness to participate under different types of community ownership arrangements.
Acceptance Status: approve
Community response to wind power projects in Japan
Abstract ID# 345
Presenting Author: Wei Zhang | Coauthor(s): Shigeo Nishikizawa , Takehiko Murayama , Kultip Suwanteep
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: This study aims to clarify the long-term changes in the community response to the noise and shadow flicker impacts due to the wind farm by analyzing questionnaire on residents conducted
Acceptance Status: approve
Community Safety: Technical and corporate integration for risk and impact
Abstract ID# 622
Presenting Author: Cesar Silva
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: Including a Community dimension into the already established process of managing environmental and occupational health and safety incidents
Acceptance Status: approve
Comparing Emergency Generator and Battery for Urban Energy Storage Planning
Abstract ID# 246
Presenting Author: Yufan Du | Coauthor(s): Yuan Xu
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: A review-based study comparing emergency diesel generators and battery-based energy storage systems in urban energy storage planning from technical and economic perspectives.
Acceptance Status: approve
Complementary approaches to assess the implications of Lithium exploitation
Abstract ID# 579
Presenting Author: Sandra Rafael | Coauthor(s): Miguel Coutinho , Sérgio Bento , João Ginja , Clara Ribeiro & Fernando Leão
Preferred Session: Impacts and risks of lithium and rare earth elements supply chain
Summary Statement: This work aimed to explore the implications of lithium exploitation, using Portugal as case study. Two complementary approaches, with different scopes, were applied.
Acceptance Status: approve
Comprehensive Environmental Information Management in Chilean Mining
Abstract ID# 251
Presenting Author: Gino Araya
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The progress in environmental information management is demonstrated within the framework of decision-making for environmental assessment, as well as for monitoring the state of the environment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Conducting Health Impact Assessment Guided by Indigenous Ways of Life
Abstract ID# 674
Presenting Author: Mandy Olsgard | Coauthor(s): Carmen Wells
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Using Indigenous cultural value-based analysis of biophysical and social indicators to establish community health condition and consumption rates of traditional foods and medicines to improve HIAs
Acceptance Status: approve
Conflict Management Suggestions for the Extension of Renewable Energy
Abstract ID# 118
Presenting Author: Jong-Gwan Jung | Coauthor(s): Jae Keun Ryu , Grace Lee , Hyung Namgung
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Conflict management measures in SEA for a Just Transformation scope are required to secure triple consensus along with residential acceptance.
Acceptance Status: approve
Connecting social impacts and social capacities in flood risk management
Abstract ID# 42
Presenting Author: Guadalupe Ortiz | Coauthor(s): Antonio Aledo
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: This project bridges flood-related social impacts and social capacities, aiming to enhance community resilience and inform tool development for local flood-risk management
Acceptance Status: approve
Conservation actions to achieve positive biodiversity target at an iron ore
Abstract ID# 365
Presenting Author: Barbara Almeida Souza | Coauthor(s): Claudiana Paula de Souza , Warwick Mostert
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: Examining mining and biodiversity in south-eastern Brazil, our study explores positive impacts through sustainable practices, advocating for holistic, evidence-based approaches in the mining
Acceptance Status: approve
Consideration of climate change in EIA of Pakistan
Abstract ID# 528
Presenting Author: Mehreen Khan | Coauthor(s): Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: Climate change is hardly considered in EIA of Pakistan. The country needs specific guidelines for inclusion of climate change in EIA reports. Moreover, consultants and regulators need to be
Acceptance Status: approve
Consideration of soundscape in Finnish EIA legislation and practice
Abstract ID# 668
Presenting Author: Heikki Salonen
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: The Finnish EIA legislation requires to consider soundscape impacts of projects in EIA procedure. Despite this, soundscape impacts have been relatively weakly recognized in Finnish EIA practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
Considerations for Equity Impact Assessment for Energy Development
Abstract ID# 380
Presenting Author: Gerald Singh | Coauthor(s): Leah Fusco
Preferred Session: Impact assessments and just energy transformation in Atlantic Canada
Summary Statement: For development to contribute to a sustainable future, it should contribute to equity. We propose equity assessment guidance to apply in environmental assessments and present a case study.
Acceptance Status: approve
Considering psycho-social impacts as part of transformation: a case study
Abstract ID# 627
Presenting Author: Catherine Fairbairn
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment to help make transformation more just
Summary Statement: A case study on how psycho-social impacts can be predicted and addressed to support just transformation when building a new road to an isolated community.
Acceptance Status: approve
Construction, Utilization and Development Plan of Korea's Carbon Spatial Ma
Abstract ID# 506
Presenting Author: Seunghyun JUNG | Coauthor(s): Minseo KIM
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: The 'Carbon Spatial Map' in Korea aggregates emissions and absorption data across buildings, transportation, and sinks, aiding cities in creating accurate and effective carbon neutrality plans.
Acceptance Status: approve
Contractor Management Post updating the KDRP ESIA
Abstract ID# 402
Presenting Author: Mwelwa Sata | Coauthor(s): Phillip Ziduche
Preferred Session: Post-ESIA Contractor Management and Value Creation: What Drives Success?
Summary Statement: The presentation will demonstrate some of the successes in contractor management post updating the Project ESIA on a multi-financed large infrastructure Project.
Acceptance Status: approve
Countering Consultation Fatigue in Regional Approaches to Just Transition
Abstract ID# 132
Presenting Author: Rosemary Joiner
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: This paper looks at innovative ways used to counter consultation fatigue in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia where mine closure is having an impact on communities.
Acceptance Status: approve
Creating a toolkit for a proportionate consideration of health in SEA
Abstract ID# 285
Presenting Author: Shiu Fung Hung
Preferred Session: Consideration of wider health determinants in impact assessments
Summary Statement: There are many variations in the interpretation of health impact in SEA practices. We will present our study findings and process in creating a toolkit for considering health in SEA.
Acceptance Status: approve
Creating relational spaces: developing the Indigenous Advisory Committee
Abstract ID# 360
Presenting Author: Janice Zeitz | Coauthor(s): Rachel Olsen
Preferred Session: Partnerships in Impact Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The presentation explores the challenges and successes of developing relational space between government and Indigenous Peoples.
Acceptance Status: approve
Cree Nation of Wemindji - Social Impact Assessment of Newmont Éléonore Mine
Abstract ID# 31
Presenting Author: Katherine Card | Coauthor(s): Fiona Wirz-Endrys
Preferred Session: Emerging Practices in Indigenous-led Environmental Assessment
Summary Statement: The Cree Nation of Wemindji and its Social, Cultural and Indigenous Rights Impact Assessment of the Newmont Éléonore Mine: A Case Study of Indigenous-led Impact Assessment in Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
CRM supply chain risks and environmental impacts in supercapacitors
Abstract ID# 316
Presenting Author: Xinqin Liu | Coauthor(s): Xiaoping Xie
Preferred Session: Impacts and risks of lithium and rare earth elements supply chain
Summary Statement: This study explores supply chain risks and environmental impacts of critical raw materials (CRM) in supercapacitor production, stressing responsible CRM sourcing for sustainable energy storage.
Acceptance Status: approve
Crossing boundaries & jurisdictions: Implications for participation
Abstract ID# 30
Presenting Author: Patricia Fitzpatrick | Coauthor(s): Alan Bond , A. John Sinclair
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: This presentation considers the ability of cross-border (i.e., transboundary, cross-boundary and multi-jurisdictional) assessment to enabling meaningful public participation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Culturally Relevant Gender-Based Analysis in Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 620
Presenting Author: Kathryn Stone | Coauthor(s): Heather Castleden , Jeff Masuda , Nicole Bates-Eamer , Diana Lewis
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: Developed by the Native Women's Association of Canada, the culturally relevant gender-based analysis framework provides critical guidance for both Indigenous-led and non-Indigenous led IAs.
Acceptance Status: approve
Cumulative effects assessment for Ireland's marine spatial planning process
Abstract ID# 230
Presenting Author: Virginia Morejón | Coauthor(s): Ainhoa González Del Campo
Preferred Session: Marine Impact Assessments for Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: This papers discusses sectors, pressures, affected receptors, and interactions in Irish waters through the lens of expert consultation, as the foundation for a GIS-based CEA to inform marine planning.
Acceptance Status: approve
Cumulative IA Guide for Renewble Energy, Nothern Cape, South Africa
Abstract ID# 313
Presenting Author: Peter Cloete | Coauthor(s): Rachel Asante-Owusu
Preferred Session: Practical cases on Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Global South
Summary Statement: The paper focuses on guiding Cumulative IA within the context of renewable energy projects and biodiversity management within the Northern Cape, South Africa.
Acceptance Status: approve
Cumulative Impact Assesment: a living process
Abstract ID# 70
Presenting Author: Juan Carlos Paez Zamora
Preferred Session: Practical cases on Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Global South
Summary Statement: Do cumulative impact analyses neeed to be updated? If so when, how and what is the value added of doing it, if any?
Acceptance Status: approve
Cumulative Impact Assessment in Japanese EIAs
Abstract ID# 496
Presenting Author: Yuki SHIBATA | Coauthor(s): Mai MORITA
Preferred Session: Practical cases on Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Global South
Summary Statement: This study identifies the status and challenges of conducting cumulative impact assessment in Japanese EIAs and suggests the necessity for new regulations on information sharing among operat
Acceptance Status: approve
Cumulative impacts on riverine communities in the Amazon, Brazil
Abstract ID# 678
Presenting Author: Silvia Mandai | Coauthor(s): Stephanie Bohlman , Evandro Moretto
Preferred Session: Practical cases on Cumulative Impact Assessment in the Global South
Summary Statement: We analyzed the cumulative impacts of two large Amazonian dams in sequence on riverine communities and biodiversity using a two-eyed perspective..
Acceptance Status: approve
Data Governance Advancing Green Mining: Environmental Observatory 2.0
Abstract ID# 395
Presenting Author: Kay Bergamini | Coauthor(s): Katherine Mollenhauer , Piroska Ángel , Vanessa Rugiero , José Ignacio Medina
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Enhancing green mining through advanced data governance, our Environmental Observatory 2.0 facilitates comprehensive, co-created mining environmental indicators.
Acceptance Status: approve
Data Governance as the Cornerstone of Good Governance in Mega Projects
Abstract ID# 484
Presenting Author: Andy Chung | Coauthor(s): Wai Ming To
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper explores the critical role of data governance in supporting good governance in mega projects, using the conceptual framework of a mega-infrastructure project.
Acceptance Status: approve
Data Governance of Public Environmental Information: A Case of Hong Kong
Abstract ID# 176
Presenting Author: Chi Chung, Chris WONG | Coauthor(s): Kin Man, Danny MAK , Kam Wa, Clara U
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper uses the CED in Hong Kong as an example to illustrate the idea of data governance in the sharing of public environmental information.
Acceptance Status: approve
Data-Based Digital Environmental Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 701
Presenting Author: Junyeong An | Coauthor(s): Taeho Park , Hyungjin Jeon , Kyoungmin Kim
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: We aim to introduce a digital environmental impact assessment (EIA) system developed to transition from the traditional report-based EIA to a more data-driven approach.
Acceptance Status: approve
Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by DFDR
Abstract ID# 576
Presenting Author: Kei Otsuki
Preferred Session: Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR)
Summary Statement: This panel discussion session will discuss the launch of a Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR) which has been developed by a multi-s
Acceptance Status: approve
Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by DFDR
Abstract ID# 171
Presenting Author: Eddie Smyth
Preferred Session: Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR)
Summary Statement: This panel discussion session will discuss the launch of a Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement developed by a multi-stakeholder g
Acceptance Status: approve
Defining Industry Standards on Skills and Performance for IA Practitioners
Abstract ID# 318
Presenting Author: Annabelle Vitti Corpuz Valenzuela
Preferred Session: Certification and Accreditation in SIA: Opportunities & Challenges
Summary Statement: This presentation seeks to participate in the discourse surrounding the establishment of industry benchmarks for the cultivation of proficient IA practitioners and to address the industry requirements
Acceptance Status: approve
Deforestation embodied in EU-27 metal and coal consumption
Abstract ID# 150
Presenting Author: Sebastian Luckeneder | Coauthor(s): Stefan Giljum , Victor Maus , Laura Sonter , Arunima Malik & Manfred Lenzen
Preferred Session: Addressing mining impacts driven by an energy transition for climate action
Summary Statement: We use geospatial data and multi-regional input-output modelling to link mining-induced deforestation from extraction sites across global supply chains to the final consumption of the EU-27.
Acceptance Status: approve
Delivering biodiversity net gain in AlUla: Benchmarking and next steps
Abstract ID# 146
Presenting Author: Jonny Miller | Coauthor(s): Anna Lyons
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: WSP are working with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to operationalise biodiversity net gain in AlUla County, Saudi Arabia, and present the outcomes of a benchmarking analysis
Acceptance Status: approve
Delivery of Just Decarbonisaton
Abstract ID# 26
Presenting Author: Chris Hazell-Marshall
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: Decarbonisation is the biggest transformation in how humans live. How are such profound changes managed to deliver a Just Transformation, and protect the future of the human world
Acceptance Status: approve
Designing scientifically-credible nature-based offsets
Abstract ID# 145
Presenting Author: Sophus zu Ermgassen
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: We review the systematic shortcomings and design flaws of nature-based offsets from the last few decades, and propose an alternative offset system that fundamentally addresses these flaws.
Acceptance Status: approve
Desperately seeking inter-generational equity – youth voices must prevail
Abstract ID# 329
Presenting Author: Nicholas King
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: IA needs reinvention if we are to bequeath a liveable planet for future generations. IA practice must evolve to better enable youth voices to influence decisions on their futures.
Acceptance Status: approve
Determinants for the Uptake of Certification Scheme in Nigeria
Abstract ID# 647
Presenting Author: Oluwatosin Oso | Coauthor(s): Michael Ilesanmi
Preferred Session: Certification and Accreditation in SIA: Opportunities & Challenges
Summary Statement: Enrolees into Social Certification programs are influenced by various factors
Acceptance Status: approve
Developing a Practical, Evidence-based Approach to Biodiversity Protection
Abstract ID# 454
Presenting Author: Delaney Eng
Preferred Session: Effective use of IA tools and partnerships to protect climate & biodiversity through Just Transition
Summary Statement: This paper documents the process of developing an organisational biodiversity protection strategy, demonstrating how data is leveraged to prioritise conservation actions under practical circumstances.
Acceptance Status: approve
Developing an HRIA for a bauxite mine in Guinea
Abstract ID# 536
Presenting Author: Kathryn Tomlinson
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: This paper will discuss the drivers, as well as the pros and cons of developing an HRIA in the context of a long-standing bauxite mine in Guinea.
Acceptance Status: approve
Developing methods for systems-informed Health Impact Assessment: SystemHIA
Abstract ID# 641
Presenting Author: Monica O'Mullane | Coauthor(s): Emily Tweed
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: We report on the findings of a scoping review; stakeholder workshops; and pilot exercises to test the application of tools from systems thinking to Health Impact Assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Developing Models of Indigenous-led Environmental Health Risk Assessment
Abstract ID# 613
Presenting Author: Heather Castleden | Coauthor(s): Diana, Isaac, Jeff, Chantelle, KG, Carmen, Melody, Gina Lewis, Luginaah, Masuda, Richmond, Banjoko, Wells, Lepine, Doxtator
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Four Canadian Indigenous communities are working with researchers to develop Indigenous-led environmental health risk assessment that reflects Indigenous values about health and wellbeing.
Acceptance Status: approve
Development of decision support integrated climate change impact assessment
Abstract ID# 197
Presenting Author: SONGMI PARK | Coauthor(s): YOUNG-IL SONG , JINHAN PARK , ARA KIM , EUNBI LEE & JOOHYUN PARK
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: The research team(DIRECTION) is currently developing a climate change impact prediction model that considers adaptive options.
Acceptance Status: approve
DFDR Panel Discussion
Abstract ID# 173
Presenting Author: Susan Tamondong
Preferred Session: Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR)
Summary Statement: session will discuss the launch of a Declaration on the Rights of People Affected by Development-Forced Displacement and Resettlement (DFDR) which has been developed by a multi-stakeholder group to st
Acceptance Status: approve
diagnosis of the management and use of solid biomass in the DRC
Abstract ID# 44
Presenting Author: Nicolas Onemba Shuku
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: 1.2 Abstract This chapter deals with a diagnosis of the management and use of solid biomass in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We performed documentary analysis as the main method for diagnosi
Acceptance Status: approve
Differences in the Management of Community Benefits Funds in Scotland
Abstract ID# 653
Presenting Author: Becca Gowens | Coauthor(s): Laura Major
Preferred Session: Community Benefit Sharing Funds: Changemakers or appeasement?
Summary Statement: Research examining the differences in governance and management of Community Benefit Funds throughout Scotland to understand the merits and drawbacks of current systems.
Acceptance Status: approve
Digging Deep – Raw Materials and Storage for the German Energy Transition
Abstract ID# 300
Presenting Author: Juliane Biehl | Coauthor(s): Johann Köppel , Gesa Geißler , Julia Neugebauer
Preferred Session: ESG and Impact Assessment for Critical Minerals in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The contribution offers a first synthesis of the environmental and social impacts of raw material mining, extraction and storage projects in Germany in the energy transition context.
Acceptance Status: approve
Digital Impact Assessment: The future of the industry?
Abstract ID# 494
Presenting Author: Ella Niehorster | Coauthor(s): Emma Jenkins
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: A discussion on Digital Impact Assessment and why and how we, as an industry, can move towards digital advances in IA and the benefits of doing so.
Acceptance Status: approve
Displacement and Resettlement of Flood Control Projects
Abstract ID# 710
Presenting Author: Yuefang Duan
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Displacement and Resettlement of Flood Control Projects: Characteristics, Livelihood Resilience and Rehabilitation Strategies: Evidence from the Lower Yellow River, China
Acceptance Status: approve
Do we have to? Regulatory Requirements vs Ethical Imperatives in the USA
Abstract ID# 243
Presenting Author: Jacquie Payette | Coauthor(s): Renee Hoyos
Preferred Session: Environmental management strategies and ethical professional practice for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: US project developers typically retain consultants who conduct the environmental assessment for the governing agency. How are ethics managed within this compliance process?
Acceptance Status: approve
Does local level data influence the HIA decision making process?
Abstract ID# 475
Presenting Author: Izak Olivier
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: The session will explore whether the availability of local level data influences the decision making process while conducting a HIA in the setting of low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Acceptance Status: approve
Doing relational work in Indigenous-led Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 625
Presenting Author: Veronica Reitmeier | Coauthor(s): Antonina Struminski-Bodden , Diana Lewis
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: A relational training environment that supports Indigenous data sovereignty and autonomy is highlighted as a practice for engagement and capacity building in Indigenous-led Impact Assessment
Acceptance Status: approve
Eco-shoreline in Lantau: nature-based coastal defence and nurturing ground
Abstract ID# 473
Presenting Author: Crystal Lui
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: This paper studies a nature-based solution, Eco-shoreline of Tung Chung New Town Extension Project, which serves as a dual role of coastal defence and functional ecosystem for boosting biodiversity.
Acceptance Status: approve
Ecological Awareness in Environmental Assessment; The Case of Thailand
Abstract ID# 29
Presenting Author: Kanokporn Swangjang
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Content of EIS could support project sustainability. More than 80% of eco-content from 60 EISs were in baseline whereas those were not used for impact assessment including eco- losses.
Acceptance Status: approve
Economic Geography under Carbon Neutrality in China's Guangdong Province
Abstract ID# 39
Presenting Author: Yuan Xu | Coauthor(s): Sam Cooke
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: Carbon neutrality pathways correspond to distinct economic geography prospects. Energy transition towards renewables can alleviate regional economic disparities for more just transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Effectiveness criteria for EIA follow-up governance at the macro level
Abstract ID# 144
Presenting Author: Charlene Smith
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: An in-depth analysis into EIA follow-up governance (i.e. the processes and structures for ensuring commitment to implement the principles of EIA follow-up), through the use of policy Delphi.
Acceptance Status: approve
Effects of Traffic on Heavy Metal and Hydrocarbon Contents of Food Items
Abstract ID# 48
Presenting Author: Adeolu Ojo | Coauthor(s): Mbianyor Bakia
Preferred Session: The power of communication!
Summary Statement: Traffic increases heavy metals and hydrocarbon contents in foods displayed along roadsides
Acceptance Status: approve
EIA Governance in Northern Ireland - Enhancing Professionals for the Future
Abstract ID# 315
Presenting Author: Josh Fothergill
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: Reviewing 5yrs of EIA capacity building in Northern Ireland. Learn from system-wide action on EIA knowledge & confidence – How important is such capacity for IA transition / transformation?
Acceptance Status: approve
EIA in Nigeria 30 Years After, Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract ID# 111
Presenting Author: Adegboyega Lawal | Coauthor(s): Abbas Suleiman , Ijeoma Vincent-Akpu
Preferred Session: Emerging Practices in Indigenous-led Environmental Assessment
Summary Statement: This paper explores the evolution, challenges, and opportunities of Nigeria's EIA process from a regulatory perspective, emphasizing the need for collective efforts for enhancing the proces
Acceptance Status: approve
EIA’s Role in Protecting Heritage from Trawling, Mining & Polluting Wrecks
Abstract ID# 151
Presenting Author: Ole Varmer
Preferred Session: Underwater Cultural Heritage: Developing Approaches and Improving Data
Summary Statement: A Just Transformation must include requirements for including information about the impacts to the Ocean Heritage that we want to pass on to future generations. For the EIAs to do this, there must be
Acceptance Status: approve
EIB perspectives on going beyond "do no harm"
Abstract ID# 90
Presenting Author: Elina Vaara
Preferred Session: Opportunities for int. development cooperation to go beyond 'do no significant harm'
Summary Statement: The EIB intervention will cover approach towards nature-positive investments as well as its global work on support countries in implementing their NDCs and NBSAPs, with the EU Taxonomy as a benchmark.
Acceptance Status: approve
Eletrobras and the first ever HRIA of a hydro power plant in Brazil
Abstract ID# 616
Presenting Author: Pedro Villela Capanema Garcia
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: The first ever third-party HRIA of a hydro power plant in Brazil is being undertaken for Eletrobras by two leading expert external teams through data analysis and stakeholder engagement.
Acceptance Status: approve
Embedding International Standard in Driving Change to Achieve Social Justic
Abstract ID# 558
Presenting Author: Darylynn Chung | Coauthor(s): NUR KHAIRIN BUJANG , Azyan Abdullah , Mohamad Irwan Aman
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Rapid upsurge of hydropower developments for energy transition, carries multifaceted risks of social injustice. We can, however, strive for a transition that is socially just.
Acceptance Status: approve
Embedding Justice in the Australian Energy Transition
Abstract ID# 729
Presenting Author: Madeline Taylor
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation charts the regulatory gaps, challenges, and opportunities for justice-driven energy development in the Australian transition. It examines recent policy shifts in the Australian energy landscape before probing specific energy justice gaps focusing on large-scale solar energy development in New South Wales, Australia.
Acceptance Status: approve
Embedding socio-economic benefits and ecosystem services on ENR management
Abstract ID# 309
Presenting Author: Maya Gabriela Villaluz
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: How to integrate socio-economic benefits and ecosystem services in land use plans to inform decision-makers using policy instruments on the sustainable management of environment and natural resources
Acceptance Status: approve
Employing Environmental Data to Inform Planning of Infrastructure Projects
Abstract ID# 578
Presenting Author: Rand Al Sultan | Coauthor(s): Abdurrahim Basit Khan , David McGrath
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: RSG applies an environmental design approach to planning, using environmental data, habitat mapping and modelling to guide infrastructure planning on offshore islands in sensitive coastal habitats.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enabling Digital Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Nigeria
Abstract ID# 489
Presenting Author: Etia Ndarake | Coauthor(s): Andrews Aboje
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: The development of Nigerian digital EIA is driven by the adoption of existing proven technologies, the research recommends that a coordinated and dedicated systems approach is required.
Acceptance Status: approve
Energy Generated, Energy Destroyed : GLOF and its impact in Sikkim Himalaya
Abstract ID# 722
Presenting Author: Matrika Ghimiray | Coauthor(s): Anand B. Rao , Rangan Banerjee
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the socio-economic and environmental impacts of the October 2023 GLOF event on Sikkim and the role of hydropower in the subsequent disaster.
Acceptance Status: approve
Energy just transition – Chile as a case studio
Abstract ID# 227
Presenting Author: Pablo Baranao | Coauthor(s): Soledad Llamazales
Preferred Session: What role does IA play in a responsible exit from the fossil fuel sector?
Summary Statement: Renewable technologies that replace old coal power plants have much lower labor intensity per unit of energy generated. Chilean experience can give us some lessons and identify some challenges.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enforceable commitments and more accountability in ESIA Follow-up
Abstract ID# 342
Presenting Author: Leyla Ozay | Coauthor(s): Godwin Opinde
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: In this session, we share lessons from Uganda, Kenya and Bolivia on translating ESIA into enforceable conditions and increasing accountability by engaging communities in ESIA monitoring.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enhancing Decision-Making for Sustainable Development: Leveraging Innovativ
Abstract ID# 466
Presenting Author: Ping Ngang Chee | Coauthor(s): Herlina Abdul Aziz
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: This presentation explores the role of decision-support tools like i-Plan and S-Charms in elevating ESG integration and social impact assessment for sustainable development.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enhancing EIA and SEA education in Denmark: Collaborative competence-buildi
Abstract ID# 595
Presenting Author: Lone Kørnøv | Coauthor(s): Ivar Lyhne
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: The landscape of EIA and SEA education in Denmark, encompassing both university and continuing education programs. The pivotal role of collaboration in enriching the educational eco-system.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enhancing focus on sustainability in a CPH Metro project: EIA tender & SDGs
Abstract ID# 140
Presenting Author: Emilia Ravn Boess | Coauthor(s): Lone Kørnøv
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: The presentation explores a metro project case study. The SDGs have been integrated in the EIA tender to encourage greater attention to sustainability in stakeholder engagement and visioning
Acceptance Status: approve
Enhancing Social Impact Assessment Capacity in Non-Profit Organizations
Abstract ID# 457
Presenting Author: Erdal Akdeve | Coauthor(s): Memduh Eren Giderler , Sebnem Akcapar , Cetin Onder
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: The vast majority of NPOs don't conduct SIA. In this research, an SIA application model for the NPO sector will be presented and an interdisciplinary contribution will be discussed.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enhancing social impact assessment with GIS strategies in engagement
Abstract ID# 28
Presenting Author: Saiful Bahari Amra Ramly
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: GIS-driven interactive mapping empowers stakeholders, enhancing transparency, inclusivity, trust and sustainability in community engagement.
Acceptance Status: approve
Enhancing Transparency: The Case of South Africa's EMF
Abstract ID# 23
Presenting Author: Dirk Cilliers | Coauthor(s): Francois Retief , Reece Alberts , Claudine Roos , Jurie Moolman
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The South African EMF streamlines environmental impact assessments by enabling spatial data interpretation, promoting transparency, and empowering decision-makers, applicants and the general
Acceptance Status: approve
Ensuring IA follow-up at a mine expansion project in South Africa
Abstract ID# 215
Presenting Author: Jan-Albert Wessels
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: The paper reflects on processes and allocation of responsibilities that made IA follow-up happen during a large-scale mine expansion project in a biodiversity hotspot of South Africa.
Acceptance Status: approve
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment of Saltwater Shrimp Farm Project
Abstract ID# 46
Presenting Author: Yadanar Swam Htet Kyaw | Coauthor(s): Aye Thiha
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: Focus highlighted in the ESIA report includes water quality management, waste management, habitat conservation, disease prevention, biosecurity, stakeholder engagement and monitoring.
Acceptance Status: approve
Environmental Health and Health Impacts : Eni’s Bioreffirery in Gela Case
Abstract ID# 590
Presenting Author: Foudil Takherist | Coauthor(s): Paolo Boffetta
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: In collaboration with Prof. P. Boffetta, assessment of the changes of health risks, impacts and opportunities between fossil-hydrocarbons refinery and bio-refinery.
Acceptance Status: approve
Environmental License Review in Chile: Causes, solutions, and challenges
Abstract ID# 331
Presenting Author: Cristian Pérez
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: The environmental license can be reviewed in Chile when the evolution of the environmental variables assessed do not develop as predicted. This paper review current situation of this process.
Acceptance Status: approve
Environmental Protection Reviews of Canadian Nuclear Facilities
Abstract ID# 328
Presenting Author: Aimee Rupert | Coauthor(s): Kendra Warnock-Juteau
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Learn how Canada’s nuclear regulator shares information with the public and decision-makers on how nuclear facilities are protective of the environment and human health.
Acceptance Status: approve
Environmental Transformation: Case Study of the Trunk Road T4 in Hong Kong
Abstract ID# 702
Presenting Author: Tsz Lok, Jason Tse
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: This Paper discusses how the EIA process in Hong Kong effectively translates the assessment outcomes into just transitions for a road project throughout planning, construction and operation stages.
Acceptance Status: approve
Environmental, Health and Safety Consequences of War
Abstract ID# 346
Presenting Author: Funke Asaolu | Coauthor(s): Oksana Rakovych
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: This presentation will explain a risk management framework for prioritization of hazards that affect environment, health, and safety of Ukrainians with respect to land, water, and air pollution.
Acceptance Status: approve
ESG Best Practices adopted in the aluminum chain in the Brazilian Amazon
Abstract ID# 662
Presenting Author: Hanna Torres | Coauthor(s): Diogo Chevalier , Victor Ramalho , Marcus Vieira , Juvenal Neto & Amanda Carvalho
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The effects of climate change trigger large challenges for the aluminum mineral productive sectors in the Brazilian Amazon, demanding for innovative responses aligned with sustainability.
Acceptance Status: approve
ESG Management Foundation Toward Corporate Climate Action and Resilience
Abstract ID# 577
Presenting Author: Mohamad Irwan Aman | Coauthor(s): Feroze Nadar
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: This paper will provide insight into Sarawak Energy’s journey in developing and implementing ESG management including how ESG management at the corporate level leads to the improvement of corporate an
Acceptance Status: approve
ESIA & ESR in Clean Cooking: Promoting Healthier Community and Cleaner Air
Abstract ID# 203
Presenting Author: Neha Sharma | Coauthor(s): Sharlene Chichgar
Preferred Session: Clean cooking solutions for a safe, clean, and healthy environment
Summary Statement: ESIA and ESR assessments are essential for clean cooking programs, aiding policy formation and delivering positive outcomes by considering both environmental and social aspects.
Acceptance Status: approve
ESIA of Infrastructure Development Projects in the Context of Climate Chang
Abstract ID# 290
Presenting Author: Siji Tao | Coauthor(s): Guoqing Shi
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: The study offers practical insights into addressing environmental and social issues in infrastructure projects in the era of climate change, offering guidance for future infrastructure devel
Acceptance Status: approve
Establishment of Environmental and Social Framework at the cooperate level
Abstract ID# 72
Presenting Author: Chang-young Byun | Coauthor(s): Ji-eun Lee
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: K-water(Korea Water Resources Cooperation) has established environmental and social framework and technical guidelines for K-water's infrastructure projects by comparative analysis of MDBs and Equato
Acceptance Status: approve
Estimation model of Forest Carbon Stock by using Forest Canopy Volume
Abstract ID# 105
Presenting Author: Kiichiro Hayashi | Coauthor(s): Kota Hayakawa , kiyoshi takajima , Takashi Machimura , Satoru Sugita
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: A study was conducted on the development of forest carbon stock assessment by using forest canopy data obtained from Light Detection And Ranging.
Acceptance Status: approve
Ethical Basis for a Just Transformation
Abstract ID# 241
Presenting Author: Bryan Jenkins
Preferred Session: Environmental management strategies and ethical professional practice for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A review of environmental management approaches and their relationship to ethical philosophies to identify an ethically based approach to achieve just transformations.
Acceptance Status: approve
Ethical Challenges in Environmental Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 296
Presenting Author: Alan Chenoweth
Preferred Session: Environmental management strategies and ethical professional practice for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Project proponents select favourable expert opinions; so IA consultants face ethical challenges: balancing professional and environmental ethics, plus uncertainties of predicting probable impacts
Acceptance Status: approve
Ethnolinguistic Minorities in Southern Angola: Opportunities for Inclusion
Abstract ID# 717
Presenting Author: Santiago Olmos | Coauthor(s): Benjamin Begbie-Clench , Alexandra Bezeredi , Aleix Serrat Capdevila , Boban Varghese Paul
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: This paper discusses challenges for engagement of Ethnolinguistic Minorities in development projects in southern Angola, as well as opportunities for engagement and inclusion.
Acceptance Status: approve
EU Taxonomy and financial approval process
Abstract ID# 94
Presenting Author: Adina Relicovschi
Preferred Session: Sustainable Finance and Impact Assessment in the EU
Summary Statement: EU Taxonomy (key requirements, challenges identified so far, understanding the financial approval process and how the permitting-related administrative procedures fit into)
Acceptance Status: approve
Evaluating just administrative action for improving water use authorisation
Abstract ID# 135
Presenting Author: Dr Jurie Moolman | Coauthor(s): Dr Reece Cronje Alberts
Preferred Session: Streamlining Environmental Assessments to Enable Transformation
Summary Statement: Evaluating the decision-making principles of lawfulness, procedural fairness, and reasonableness within environmental assessment instruments namely water use authorisations
Acceptance Status: approve
Evaluation of the practice of SEA in Germany
Abstract ID# 268
Presenting Author: Marie Hanusch
Preferred Session: The SEA Directive in EU, 20 Years on, implementation and effectiveness.
Summary Statement: Core findings of the evaluation of the practice of SEA in Germany: SEA has an impact in planning practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
Evolution of the UK Transmission System: Challenges and Opportunities in IA
Abstract ID# 170
Presenting Author: Ed Walker
Preferred Session: Just Transition and Transformation of the Coast and Maritime
Summary Statement: In this session, Ed Walker will explore the greatest upgrade to the electricity network which we have ever seen, and what this means for professionals working in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Examining Gender Disparities in Social Impact Assessment: Rhetoric vs. Real
Abstract ID# 366
Presenting Author: RATIKA THAKUR
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: This study thoroughly investigates the enduring challenge of gender disparities within the realm of social impact assessment, shedding light on the disparity between project objectives and the actual
Acceptance Status: approve
Expanding the Horizons of SIA in Post-Disaster Management
Abstract ID# 501
Presenting Author: Memduh Eren Giderler | Coauthor(s): Ulku Neslihan Aktas
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: In this research, a post-disaster management SIA model is presented for public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This model was introduced by using the data from 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
Acceptance Status: approve
Experiences of communication and consultation on Indigenous IA studies
Abstract ID# 368
Presenting Author: Cássio Ingles de Sousa
Preferred Session: The power of communication!
Summary Statement: Discuss strategies to reinforce principles of participation, previous consultation and communication with Indigenous communities at IA studies, such as methodological design and use of video
Acceptance Status: approve
Experiences of Environmental Impact Assessments Practitioners in Nigeria
Abstract ID# 370
Presenting Author: EBIKAPADE AMASUOMO
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: How does economic constraints and poverty affect the conduct of Environmental Impact Assessment in developing countries? The paper examines the role of social inclusion in environmental protection
Acceptance Status: approve
Expert systems on environmental decentralized licensing in Brazil
Abstract ID# 69
Presenting Author: Sergio Glasmeyer | Coauthor(s): Alysson Diogenes
Preferred Session: Compliance/Enforcement for Transformative ESIA Project Impact Management
Summary Statement: Environmental licensing shall focus on the need of qualified actors with multiple knowing of conditions for a proper decision supported by structured computerized tools, like expert systems.
Acceptance Status: approve
Explore with local government how to conduct sustainability assessment
Abstract ID# 541
Presenting Author: Akiko Urago | Coauthor(s): Yuki Shibata , Tetsuro Uesugi , Hiroo Kasagi , Yoshika Yamamoto
Preferred Session: Partnerships in Impact Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A practical guidance for Sustainable Assessment for local government is being prepared in Japan. The team is exploring ways to foster a space where stakeholders can find a sustainable path.
Acceptance Status: approve
Exploring IA and Due Diligence for sustainably transforming large projects
Abstract ID# 66
Presenting Author: Heikki Kalle | Coauthor(s): Charlotta Faith-Ell , Jos Arts
Preferred Session: IA and Due Diligence for sustainable transformation of large projects
Summary Statement: This paper explores the role of IA in Due Diligence (an instrument for investment decisions and financing) for sustainable transformation of large projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Exposure to Household Air Pollution and Child Undernutrition in the Sahel
Abstract ID# 71
Presenting Author: Nakawala Lufumpa | Coauthor(s): Anne Hilger , Bénédicte De La Briere , Odyssia Ng
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: In the Sahel, exposure to HAP is one of three factors with the largest association with child undernutrition. Clean cooking solutions may be a vital strategy to accelerate regional progress.
Acceptance Status: approve
Extracting fair equitable benefits from natural resources for communities
Abstract ID# 166
Presenting Author: TEDDY KAMAU
Preferred Session: Benefit-sharing for a fair and just transformation.
Summary Statement: Kenya is currently on the verge of passing a new legislative framework that will harmonize Natural resources benefit sharing formulae for natural resource sectors. Will it prove fair and equitable?
Acceptance Status: approve
Facilitating an integrated assessment of impacts in marine multi-use
Abstract ID# 335
Presenting Author: Annaïk Van Gerven
Preferred Session: Marine Impact Assessments for Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: A framework to assess to impact of marine multi-use will be presented. This framework considers the three dimensions of sustainable development, to provide a holistic evaluation of a given multi-use
Acceptance Status: approve
Fairness in Compensation for Uprooted Communities and Employment Policy
Abstract ID# 554
Presenting Author: Mousumi Padhi
Preferred Session: Fair compensation for just transformation
Summary Statement: Industrial projects uproot people from their homelands, but they end up getting employed in low-end jobs only—leading to alienation of community and a toxic work culture.
Acceptance Status: approve
Fe-coated biochar for P removal and recovery of slow release fertilizers
Abstract ID# 310
Presenting Author: Minkyung Kim | Coauthor(s): Giuseppina Falasca , Barbara Casentini , Stefano Fazi
Preferred Session: Synergies of impact assessment and circular economy
Summary Statement: With a view to a circular economy, green materials like biochar, once enriched with phosphate in eutrophicated environment, can then find direct use as slow-release fertilizers.
Acceptance Status: approve
Financing Green, Financing it Right
Abstract ID# 519
Presenting Author: OLGA SKOTAREVA
Preferred Session: Financing a Just Transition
Summary Statement: Discussing best practice approaches and tools to enable financing with just transition.
Acceptance Status: approve
Financing NbS for a Just Transition: Bamboo Afforestation in Hong Kong
Abstract ID# 325
Presenting Author: Yoyo Mok
Preferred Session: Financing a Just Transition
Summary Statement: A case study in Hong Kong is used to discuss the potential of using impact assessment to promote inclusivity, resilience, and sustainability in driving a Just Transition in NbS investments.
Acceptance Status: approve
Fishing vs Tidal Energy: lessons learned from IAs in Canada’s Bay of Fundy
Abstract ID# 293
Presenting Author: Christopher Milley
Preferred Session: Impact assessments and just energy transformation in Atlantic Canada
Summary Statement: IA can help address fears and perceptions of fishing communities concerned with impacts of tidal energy projects on livelihoods. Canada’s Bay of Fundy offers rich lessons and paths forward.
Acceptance Status: approve
Floating Solar PV as panacea to climate change driven water constrains
Abstract ID# 297
Presenting Author: Steadmore Musenyi
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: Floating solar PV plays the role of an optimum alternative clean and cheap energy resource to complement constrained hydropower in the face of climate change
Acceptance Status: approve
Follow-up and the new Environmental and Planning Act in the Netherlands
Abstract ID# 142
Presenting Author: Wout van der Gun | Coauthor(s): Susan Vernij , Sophie de Maat , Maartje van Ravesteijn
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: This research provides insights on how to implement follow-up successfully under the new Environmental and Planning Act in the Netherlands, using EIA and SEA good practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
Follow-up on Environmental Clearances Granted in India- A case study on sur
Abstract ID# 608
Presenting Author: Randeep Singh Saini
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: Effective follow up in environmental clearance requires meaningful conditions that are practicable to implement and are objective.
Acceptance Status: approve
Formalizing Guidance for How We Deliver IA in Active Conflict Contexts
Abstract ID# 598
Presenting Author: Tracy Hart | Coauthor(s): Marcus Edino
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: The presentation will outline characteristics which define how IA design and implementation in active conflict contexts is different, and propose guidance for addressing these challenges.
Acceptance Status: approve
Foundations for nature positive: good mitigation policy and practice
Abstract ID# 314
Presenting Author: Amrei von Hase
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Highlights from COMBO+ in four African and two Asian countries to help build a solid foundation for the mitigation hierarchy and contribute to nature positive outcomes
Acceptance Status: approve
Frac-out prediction: Proactive management in natural gas pipeline project
Abstract ID# 426
Presenting Author: Warisa Poosit | Coauthor(s): Vasunan Akarapunyawong , Poramate Sukchum
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Prediction technique is applied for Bentonite frac-out incidents during natural gas pipeline construction project in Thailand, lessening impact on the environment and local community.
Acceptance Status: approve
Frameworks and Metrics
Abstract ID# 591
Presenting Author: Will Stephen | Coauthor(s): Graham Prescott
Preferred Session: Addressing mining impacts driven by an energy transition for climate action
Summary Statement: Understanding corporate sustainability frameworks, when to use which biodiversity metrics and tools, and how this can help businesses meet their target-setting and disclosure requirements.
Acceptance Status: approve
Free, Prior and and Informed Consent in practice: What are the key issues?
Abstract ID# 525
Presenting Author: Philippe Hanna | Coauthor(s): Cassio Ingles de Souza
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: FPIC mandate influences various projects, yet challenges persist. We will discuss FPIC current status, challenges and obstacles, promoting collaborative research for effective implementation.
Acceptance Status: approve
From avoidance to offsets: How to measure biodiversity to net gain ambition
Abstract ID# 478
Presenting Author: Sophia Raithel | Coauthor(s): Hafren Williams
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: Presentation of robust biodiversity metrics to monitor corporations trajectory towards Net Positive Impact and its transition to nature positive
Acceptance Status: approve
From concept to implementation: Indigenous education and ecosystem offsetting
Abstract ID# 407
Presenting Author: Wade Brunham | Coauthor(s): Erin Boyle
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Collaboration with indigenous communities in the planning, design and execution is integral to the future success of integrated biodiversity offsetting.
Acceptance Status: approve
From order to reorder: Assessment of the living environment of hydropower r
Abstract ID# 147
Presenting Author: Guoqing Shi | Coauthor(s): Yuanke Zhao
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Assessment of the living environment of hydropower resettlement for just transition in China
Acceptance Status: approve
From plans to practice: Improving Post-ESIA implementation in AlUla, KSA
Abstract ID# 445
Presenting Author: Anna Lyons
Preferred Session: Post-ESIA Contractor Management and Value Creation: What Drives Success?
Summary Statement: The post-ESIA implementation gap. Sharing RCU’s experience pushing plans to practice through ESIA conditions setting, contractor management, training, compliance programs and more.
Acceptance Status: approve
Functions and status of follow-up in Finnish EIA legislation
Abstract ID# 292
Presenting Author: Anni Kärkkäinen
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: This research explores the functions and status of follow-up in US, Canadian, EU and Finnish EIA legislation, with a particular focus on the mining sector
Acceptance Status: approve
Gap analysis of biodiversity management legal framework of Kyrgyz Republic
Abstract ID# 479
Presenting Author: LULWA ALI | Coauthor(s): ANDREW CAULDWELL
Preferred Session: Effective use of IA tools and partnerships to protect climate & biodiversity through Just Transition
Summary Statement: This paper examines the Kyrgyz Republic’s legal framework and institutional capacity for managing Biodiversity with recommendations for enhancement and informing future projects development
Acceptance Status: approve
GBA+ in offshore energy development planning in Atlantic Canada
Abstract ID# 235
Presenting Author: Leah Fusco | Coauthor(s): Christine Knott , Tara Howse
Preferred Session: Impact assessments and just energy transformation in Atlantic Canada
Summary Statement: Drawing on the case of offshore energy development in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, we explore the critiques and possibilities of GBA+ as a tool in strategic and regional impact assessments.
Acceptance Status: approve
Gender differences in economic impact analysis of climate change
Abstract ID# 114
Presenting Author: Galina Williams
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Climate change can worsen the gender disparities especially in developing countrie. This paper discusses how economic impact assessment can be used to include gender aspects in climate policy advice.
Acceptance Status: approve
Gender equality indicators for environmental management instruments in Peru
Abstract ID# 666
Presenting Author: Analucía Riveros | Coauthor(s): Galo Diaz
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: Proposal of three gender equality indicators for incorporation into environmental management instruments to reduce inequality.
Acceptance Status: approve
Generating Wellbeing is a Must, Not an Option
Abstract ID# 700
Presenting Author: Yaddy Ruiz | Coauthor(s): Andres Amaya , Ariel Paz
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Applied EcIA has been used as a powerful tool that promoters can use to more efficiently identify investment opportunities that create wellbeing for local communities and stakeholders
Acceptance Status: approve
GEOCHEMICAL BACKGROUND OF THE GUAMÁ RIVER BASIN PROJECT, EASTERN AMAZON, BR
Abstract ID# 532
Presenting Author: Juvenal Silva Neto | Coauthor(s): Diogo Chevalier , Amanda Carvalho , Victor Barbosa , Hanna Torres & Jessica Shibata
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: Geochemical survey project in the Brazilian Amazon to subsidize discussions on the region's background and improve the efficiency of environmental impact assessments by local agents.
Acceptance Status: approve
Geoportal use as a powerful tool for projects environmental following up
Abstract ID# 589
Presenting Author: maria silvia romitelli | Coauthor(s): Thales Carra , Rodrigo Silva
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: the paper presents successful applications of a Geoportal used by Environmental Agency of Sao Paulo State to support the following up of environmental licensing of large projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Geospatial technologies as a catalyst for large-scale biodiversity data
Abstract ID# 306
Presenting Author: Amy Sellers
Preferred Session: AI supported transformation of collecting & processing biodiversity data
Summary Statement: Using artificial intelligence (AI) through geospatial technologies can be a catalyst for high integrity, high resolution, and large-scale collection and processing of biodiversity data.
Acceptance Status: approve
GEOTHERMAL EDUCATION: WHAT ARE NEEDED TO ACHIEVE THE GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT
Abstract ID# 269
Presenting Author: DWI Setianingsih | Coauthor(s): Endang Hernawan
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: Geothermal energy is a sustainable and renewable energy source that is still largely untapped. Indonesia has a very huge potential on geothermal resources that spread over along the Indonesia archipel
Acceptance Status: approve
Gillian Davidson
Abstract ID# 189
Presenting Author: Gillian Davidson
Preferred Session: What is the role of social and environmental practitioners to provide guidance to boards?
Summary Statement: Non Executive Director, Central Asia Metals, Horizonte Minerals, Lundin Gold, New Gold.
Acceptance Status: approve
GIS Techniques to assess climate change effects in impact assessment
Abstract ID# 617
Presenting Author: Isa Kabenge | Coauthor(s): Joshua Wanyama , Evet Naturinda , Benon Nabaasa , Patience Nsereko
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: Knowledge, skills and attitude for GIS and Remote Sensing techniques application in ESIA process was enhanced. Efforts towards high quality ESIA reports to ensure sustainable development are
Acceptance Status: approve
Global assessment of the impact of construction minerals on biodiversity
Abstract ID# 113
Presenting Author: Aurora Torres | Coauthor(s): Sophus O.S.E. zu Ermgassen , Francisco Ferri-Yanez , Laetitia M. Navarro , Isabel Rosa & Fernanda Z. Teixeira
Preferred Session: Addressing mining impacts driven by an energy transition for climate action
Summary Statement: Global extraction of construction minerals threatens biodiversity, impacting +1000 known species and numerous yet-undescribed species in biodiversity hotspots of fast developing regions.
Acceptance Status: approve
Global Biodiversity Expenditure Taxonomy– understanding government spending
Abstract ID# 139
Presenting Author: Ronja Fischer | Coauthor(s): Annabelle Trinidad
Preferred Session: Opportunities for int. development cooperation to go beyond 'do no significant harm'
Summary Statement: The Global Biodiversity Expenditure (GLOBE) Taxonomy is a tool supporting all countries working on their Biodiversity Finance Plans by facilitating the Biodiversity Expenditure Review.
Acceptance Status: approve
Global patterns of biodiversity threatened by mining
Abstract ID# 56
Presenting Author: Ieuan Lamb | Coauthor(s): David Edwards
Preferred Session: Addressing mining impacts driven by an energy transition for climate action
Summary Statement: Evaluating the global threat to vertebrate biodiversity from mining, using IUCN species assessment, focussing on spatial hotspots of threat and links to species’ traits.
Acceptance Status: approve
Global perspectives on the effectiveness of environmental impact assessment
Abstract ID# 363
Presenting Author: Reece Alberts | Coauthor(s): Francois Retief
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: This presentation aims to introduce a project aimed at providing the latest global perspective on the effectiveness of EIA. It will apply a survey-based methodology to three stakeholder groups (regu
Acceptance Status: approve
Going beyond the “just enough” social approach in renewable energy projects
Abstract ID# 476
Presenting Author: Alejandra Galeano Galán | Coauthor(s): Andrea Pittaluga
Preferred Session: Community Benefit Sharing Funds: Changemakers or appeasement?
Summary Statement: In this paper, the authors main topics are community benefit sharing initiatives and social license to operate in renewable energy developments.
Acceptance Status: approve
Green Airport Construction of Beijing Daxing International Airport
Abstract ID# 438
Presenting Author: Nan Wang
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Daxing Airport has established a green construction implementation procedure of "leadership, review, optimization, and confirmation", promoting the implementation of green airport construction.
Acceptance Status: approve
Green Hydrogen: Pre-ESIA Scoping of GW-Scale Project
Abstract ID# 156
Presenting Author: Jay Wagner | Coauthor(s): Murray Jones
Preferred Session: What role does IA play in a responsible exit from the fossil fuel sector?
Summary Statement: Producing green hydrogen has significant E&S impacts. This paper examines a pre-feasibility risk assessment of a green hydrogen development and discusses key issues and mitigations identified.
Acceptance Status: approve
Greening Profits: Shifting Fossil Investment Paradigm
Abstract ID# 522
Presenting Author: Ricardo Souza
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Evidence emphasizes integrating sustainability in offshore oil ventures as vital, irrespective of regulations, ensuring long-term profitability and societal responsibility.
Acceptance Status: approve
Habitat offsets for caribou in British Columbia - Lessons Learned
Abstract ID# 583
Presenting Author: Greg Sharam
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Mountain caribou are an endangered population in Canada and industrial projects have been required to conduct habitat offsets in their range. We describe the lessons learned from 10 years of habitat o
Acceptance Status: approve
Health Impact Assessment and the Changing Stakeholder Needs – Italy's Case
Abstract ID# 610
Presenting Author: Michele Bonizzi | Coauthor(s): Fareed Yusuf Ahmed
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: Reinforcing best practice in response to stakeholders’ needs. How further integrating HIA into permitting processes accommodates populations’ health, stakeholder needs and business continuity.
Acceptance Status: approve
Health Impact Assessment in SEA in Italy: state of the art and perspectives
Abstract ID# 186
Presenting Author: Valentina Cavanna
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The paper investigates the state of the art of the implementation of Health Impact Assessment in connection with SEA in Italy, as well as the correlated challenges and possible developments.
Acceptance Status: approve
Health impact assessment in the energy sector
Abstract ID# 101
Presenting Author: Delya Sommerville | Coauthor(s): Yina Xiao
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: The presentation will address current practices, challenges and opportunities for HIA within energy sector and will outline key elements for successful HIA practice in the future.
Acceptance Status: approve
Health Impact Assessment in the Energy Transition - Increasing of Knowledge
Abstract ID# 601
Presenting Author: Simone Fortunato Mortara | Coauthor(s): Diaz Guillermo Gomez
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: Tackling health risks and impacts of energy transition by assessing available data and improving knowledge with the setting future research priorities.
Acceptance Status: approve
Health impact assessment of the Gaza Strip integrated essential services
Abstract ID# 247
Presenting Author: Mirko Winkler
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: We conducted an HIA of the integrated essential services water supply, food supply and wastewater management in the Gaza Strip to identify priorities for safeguarding and promoting health.
Acceptance Status: approve
Health impact management and monitoring with community cadres
Abstract ID# 311
Presenting Author: James Moodie
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: Health impacts linked to development projects in LMICs are often compounded in weak systems. Community cadre centred interventions allow for system strengthening and for impact monitoring.
Acceptance Status: approve
Hearing the Unheard
Abstract ID# 703
Presenting Author: Sebastian Suarez | Coauthor(s): Yaddy Ruiz , Andres Amaya
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: IA and public participation during IA of Bogota's first Metro Line offered opportunities for those normally unheard to be heard.
Acceptance Status: approve
Helium, LoRaWAN with IoT for Impact Assessment and Conservation in Kenya
Abstract ID# 322
Presenting Author: Hanna Fiegenbaum | Coauthor(s): Bradley Azegele , Stephan Seider
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The objective of this contribution is to share insights about opportunities and challenges of the use of Helium, LoRaWAN and IoT in ecosystem service assessment and conservation in Kenya.
Acceptance Status: approve
Heritage Impact Assessment of Historic Urban Parks
Abstract ID# 415
Presenting Author: Urmila Jha-Thakur | Coauthor(s): Marie Le Devehat
Preferred Session: The role of Impact Assessment in protecting and enhancing heritage
Summary Statement: Exploring how 'framing' of Impact Assessment can be developed for Urban Historic Public Parks
Acceptance Status: approve
Heritage in SEA: Integrated decision making in the Harrat Uwayirid (KSA)
Abstract ID# 529
Presenting Author: Sarah Ritchie | Coauthor(s): Laura Morabito , Carla Korpijaakko
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Masterplan and SEA of the Harrat Uwayirid highlight the importance of including heritage data for sustainable conservation of the environment to benefit current and future generations
Acceptance Status: approve
Higher education institutions’ based environmental assessment research in E
Abstract ID# 339
Presenting Author: Tiago Rodrigues | Coauthor(s): Thomas Fischer
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: This study evaluates European higher education institutions' environmental assessment research in 44 countries by analyzing Scopus-listed publications, gauging their extent and coverage.
Acceptance Status: approve
History of Efforts to Reform the NEPA Impact Assessment Process in the United States
Abstract ID# 748
Presenting Author: Michael D. Smith
Preferred Session: Transforming the Future of NEPA: Recent U.S. Congressional Action
Summary Statement: This paper will summarize the history of efforts over the last 50+ years to reform the NEPA impact assessment process in the United States, including those taken by various presidential administrations and the U.S. Congress.
Acceptance Status: approve
How can extraterritorial duty contribute to global climate governance?
Abstract ID# 153
Presenting Author: Heping Dang
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: An empirical study will tell us how the human rights mechanism can help address a significant shortcoming in international law
Acceptance Status: approve
How can Health Impact Assessment support a wellbeing economy?
Abstract ID# 232
Presenting Author: Margaret Douglas | Coauthor(s): Fiona Scott , Kirstin McNicol , Deborah Shipton , Lorna Renwick
Preferred Session: Consideration of wider health determinants in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Wellbeing economy frameworks include the social, economic and environmental health determinants considered in health impact assessment. HIA is a practical way to promote wellbeing economy pr
Acceptance Status: approve
How dialogue enable us to make favourable decisions for a just transition
Abstract ID# 338
Presenting Author: karol oyanader | Coauthor(s): Javiera Arellano
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: In our presentation, we will discuss the results of the Due Diligence assessment carried out in Los Lagos project. We will cover the social, environmental, and archaeological aspects, among others.
Acceptance Status: approve
How does Net Gain impact the social licence to operate of a large project?
Abstract ID# 372
Presenting Author: Alice Stuart | Coauthor(s): Alan Bond , Aldina Franco
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: Net Gain is often used to offset the negative impacts but does not guarantee acceptance; we look at individuals’ opinions of Net Gain and whether it impacts acceptance of a large project.
Acceptance Status: approve
How it may or may not support Indigenous sovereignty
Abstract ID# 745
Presenting Author: Somia Sadiq
Preferred Session: Anishinaabe Law: Harmonization & the Role of UNDRIP
Summary Statement: This presentation will speak to the role of UNDRIP and how it may or may not support Indigenous sovereignty depending on how implementation occurs in project and regional negotiations for large scale projects..
Acceptance Status: approve
How often are follow-up programs implemented in Canada?
Abstract ID# 696
Presenting Author: Cathy Mackay | Coauthor(s): Daryl Johannesen
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: This presentation discusses the importance of follow-up programs in assessing and mitigating project impacts in Canada, emphasizing the need for effective implementation and exploring variou
Acceptance Status: approve
How the SEA shaped the Firth of Clyde Regional Marine Plan
Abstract ID# 112
Presenting Author: Arthur Keller
Preferred Session: Blue economy, SEA and Marine Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: The Firth of Clyde Regional Marine Plan engaged a range of diverse stakeholders, to produce a plan for complex marine system. So how did the SEA help to shape it?
Acceptance Status: approve
How to assess climate change impacts and sustain health on regional level
Abstract ID# 730
Presenting Author: Ilonka Horváth
Preferred Session: Consideration of wider health determinants in impact assessments
Summary Statement: An Austrian pilot shows that using a participatory and anticipatory approach supports local population to develop climate change adaptation needs to sustain future health.
Acceptance Status: approve
How to be a CEP, or, an alternative pathway to SIA accreditation
Abstract ID# 698
Presenting Author: Patrick Solomon
Preferred Session: Certification and Accreditation in SIA: Opportunities & Challenges
Summary Statement: The Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) credential both opens engagement opportunities and presents challenges for environmental and social impact assessment careers.
Acceptance Status: approve
How to Conserve Urban Heritage by EIA -A Case of Jingu Gaien Park, Tokyo-
Abstract ID# 497
Presenting Author: Sachihiko Harashina
Preferred Session: The role of Impact Assessment in protecting and enhancing heritage
Summary Statement: To an EIA of urban heritage development in Tokyo, IAIA Japan and ICOMOS sent messages for good practice. It raises universal problems in disclosure and participation on urban development.
Acceptance Status: approve
Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence
Abstract ID# 143
Presenting Author: Salah Husseini
Preferred Session: Connecting People and Planet: Respecting the environment and human rights
Summary Statement: What is Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence? How can it be used to identify and address human rights impacts?
Acceptance Status: approve
Human Rights Impact Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Technology Development and Application – emerging practice and coming regulation.
Abstract ID# 744
Presenting Author: Cathrine Bloch Veiberg
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: The presentation will focus on emerging impact assessment requirements on the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and principles for human rights impact assessment of AI systems and their application.
Acceptance Status: approve
Human Rights-Based Approaches in Fisheries Management and Ocean Protection
Abstract ID# 181
Presenting Author: Mohammad Arifsyah
Preferred Session: Connecting People and Planet: Respecting the environment and human rights
Summary Statement: Enhancing human rights-based approaches in fisheries management and ocean protection is crucial for enabling effective policies to eliminate forced labor and illegal fishing practices.
Acceptance Status: approve
Hydroelectric Dams in Iran Involuntary Displacement of local Indigenous
Abstract ID# 422
Presenting Author: Parand Meysami
Preferred Session: Fair compensation for just transformation
Summary Statement: Examples from hydroelectric dams in Iran to demonstrate the necessity of environmental justice, and fair treatment of indigenous people to achieve a just transition and avoid humanitarian crisis.
Acceptance Status: approve
IA for Megaprojects: It Must Start with Effective Stakeholder Engagement
Abstract ID# 158
Presenting Author: Marissa Murphy
Preferred Session: How prepared is IA for next-generation renewable energy megaprojects?
Summary Statement: A case study for a mega-scale offshore wind project that highlights how a meaningful, intensive stakeholder engagement process initiated 5 years before project inception facilitates its IA
Acceptance Status: approve
IA for Private University & SIA Best Practice for Community Development
Abstract ID# 152
Presenting Author: Meshach Ojile
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: Paper reports on model SIA practice with benefits-sharing for a just community transformation in Nigeria.
Acceptance Status: approve
IA is crucial for gauging community expectations in the energy transition
Abstract ID# 464
Presenting Author: Kate Brittain
Preferred Session: What role does IA play in a responsible exit from the fossil fuel sector?
Summary Statement: Gain insights from an Australian gas producer’s SIA, which explores community expectations for a potential decline scenario (developed alongside a growth scenario) related to the company's o
Acceptance Status: approve
IA process and mitigation measures with indigenous peoples in Brazil
Abstract ID# 383
Presenting Author: Roberta Coutinho
Preferred Session: Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives for Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The participatory EIA process include training and hiring indigenous environmental agents to keeping track of the monitoring and dissemination of the results to the community.
Acceptance Status: approve
IA teaching and research activities in Higher education, Thailand
Abstract ID# 155
Presenting Author: Chaunjit Chanchitpricha
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: This paper explores how IA teaching and research activities are conducted amongst higher education academics in the Thai context.
Acceptance Status: approve
IA with quilombola communities in Brazil and support of quality life
Abstract ID# 388
Presenting Author: Adriana Crem
Preferred Session: The role of environmental management strategies for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The IA process with quilombola communities in Brazil requires a specific study, which can strengthen the identity of the community, as well as its territorial organization.
Acceptance Status: approve
IA with quilombola communities in Brazil and support of the quality of life
Abstract ID# 390
Presenting Author: Adriana Crem
Preferred Session: The role of environmental management strategies for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The IA process with quilombola communities in Brazil requires a specific study, which can strengthen the identity of the community, as well as its territorial organization.
Acceptance Status: approve
IAIA HQ
Abstract ID# 743
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Preferred Session: Developing an IAIA agenda for SEA action toward a just transformation
Summary Statement:
Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 731
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Preferred Session: Accountability, impact assessment and their capacity to transform projects
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 732
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Preferred Session: Listen For... Just Transformation
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 733
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Preferred Session: Brainstorming Best Practice IA Principles for extraterrestrial developments
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 734
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Preferred Session: It's a beautiful day for Social & Human Rights IA: EU too play a role
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 735
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Preferred Session: Rethinking Climate Change: IA for a Resilient and Just Transformation
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 736
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Preferred Session: IAIA Principles for Artificial Intelligence in Impact Assessment
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 737
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Preferred Session: Sustainable Finance and Impact Assessment linkages at a Global scale
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 738
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Preferred Session: Meet the editor
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 739
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Preferred Session: What have you done for me lately? Effectiveness in Health Impact Assessment
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 740
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Preferred Session: IAIA in 2050: Exploring Fit for Future (3F) Initiative Concepts
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Acceptance Status: approve
IAIAHQ
Abstract ID# 741
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Preferred Session: How can nature-based approaches be promoted before impact assessment?
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Acceptance Status: approve
ID 183 - IA transformation – EBRD experience
Abstract ID# 401
Presenting Author: Debbie Cousins
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: Reflect on trends in IA, due diligence and emerging skills based on my experience at the EBRD.
Acceptance Status: approve
Identity-based approaches to psychosocial impact assessment
Abstract ID# 427
Presenting Author: Eden Klein | Coauthor(s): Somia Sadiq
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment to help make transformation more just
Summary Statement: This presentation will explore the application and opportunity of identity-based approaches to psychosocial impact assessment through a unique case study in Treaty 1 Territory, Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Image sensing / AI technology for wind farms to minimise impacts on birds
Abstract ID# 213
Presenting Author: Simon Taylor
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: Case studies of large scale wind projects in central Asia will be described to explore how Identiflight sytem may be used to work towards achievement of no-net-loss of priority bird species.
Acceptance Status: approve
IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: THE JOURNEY TO A JUST TRAN
Abstract ID# 657
Presenting Author: Ngozi Gabriel
Preferred Session: The role of environmental management strategies for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The paper is aimed at highlighting the connection of EIA with the need for biodiversity conservation and how this synergy can lead to a just transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact assessment for policy insight on battery minerals value chains
Abstract ID# 504
Presenting Author: Diana Carolina Arbelaez Ruiz | Coauthor(s): Jordan Lindsay
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: This paper reviews impact assessment methods suitable to provide policy-relevant insights on justice and vulnerability questions at the value chain level of battery minerals.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact Assessment Higher Education and Research in Mexico
Abstract ID# 556
Presenting Author: Juan Carlos Tejeda-González
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: IA in Higher Education and Research in Mexico is poor and low because IA is mostly used as a regulatory permit for projects. Here we present what has been done to improve and overturn this situation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact Assessment Practices to Help Enable Circular Economy Progress
Abstract ID# 564
Presenting Author: Tomás B. Ramos | Coauthor(s): Mariana Rato , Alexandra Polido
Preferred Session: Synergies of impact assessment and circular economy
Summary Statement: Connecting EIA with circular economy strategies, principles, and practices can foster a synergistic transition to sustainability
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact Assessments for just transition outcomes in renewable energy sector
Abstract ID# 510
Presenting Author: Vigya Sharma
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: This presentation will discuss how the lack of IAs and SIAs are influencing just transition outcomes as the world expands its renewable energy project footprint.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact Management with Indigenous Peoples of a mining company in Brazil
Abstract ID# 540
Presenting Author: Thais Pereira
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: In the Southeast of Pará, the relationship with the Xikrin do Cateté Indigenous People for about 40 years, where their cultural uses/reproductions near the mining areas are respected.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact of Bunkering on Benthic Macro-Invertebrates of the New Calabar River
Abstract ID# 324
Presenting Author: Pyamene Yubedee | Coauthor(s): Peter Onyagbodor , Kika Ehiedu
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: This study showed that oil bunkering had a negative impact on the benthic macro-invertebrates of the New Calabar River, with a reduction in species richness compared to previous studies.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impact of Mines for the Just Transformation, Cree EA Process
Abstract ID# 723
Presenting Author: Cameron McLean | Coauthor(s): Anna Krupa
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Cree in Quebec experience acute impacts from climate change, while proposed solutions require additional mines and IA process reviews the impact on the environment and traditional way of life.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impacts of EIA and permit streamlining in the context of mining sector
Abstract ID# 295
Presenting Author: Ismo Pölönen
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: Presentation focuses on the relationship between EU´s Critical Raw Material Act and the quality of EIA and permit procedures in the mining sector.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impacts of floating solar panels, the Magat reservoir as reference case
Abstract ID# 16
Presenting Author: Ingrid Nesheim | Coauthor(s): Francois Clayer
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: Floating photovoltaics contribute to renewable electricity production. Effects of covering a lake with FPV, suggestions for enhancing co-benefits and reducing adverse impacts of FPV are presented.
Acceptance Status: approve
Impacts on biodiversity and expected inputs to management from monitoring
Abstract ID# 221
Presenting Author: Natália Takahashi Margarido | Coauthor(s): Larissa Ribeiro Souza , Sueli Harumi Kakinami , Luis Enrique Sánchez
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: The contribution of biodiversity monitoring to follow-up and adaptive management is reviewed in a mine in the Brazilian Amazon. An accurate description of impacts is essential for monitoring
Acceptance Status: approve
Implementation of EIA under the UN BBNJ Agreement: Next Steps.
Abstract ID# 234
Presenting Author: Patience Whitten
Preferred Session: Blue economy, SEA and Marine Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: This presentation will address measures needed to ensure robust and meaningful decisions under the EIA framework in the BBNJ treaty. Key to the discussion is the need to develop EIA Guidelines.
Acceptance Status: approve
Inclusion towards a Just Transformation
Abstract ID# 96
Presenting Author: Doris Kiwelu
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transformation – Insights and lessons for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Knowing major problems facing the society , identifying affected groups, inclusion in all stages , policy and regulation formulation are the key to a Just Transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Increasing Indigenous Perspectives in Baseline Studies: Braiding Knowledges
Abstract ID# 406
Presenting Author: Shyla O'Donnell | Coauthor(s): Andrea McGathey
Preferred Session: Financing a Just Transition
Summary Statement: An overview of braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Western science into baseline studies to inform site characterization for a proposed new nuclear development at an existing facility in eastern Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Independent monitoring of VCM Project Community Benefits.
Abstract ID# 474
Presenting Author: Robert Evans
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: Based on over a decade of monitoring experience, this paper examines the extent to which REDD+ and other Voluntary Carbon Market projects genuinely deliver promised benefits to their local communities
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Designed Impact Methods: An Example from Gitxaala Nation
Abstract ID# 561
Presenting Author: James Herbert | Coauthor(s): Adena Vanderjagt , Heather Johnston
Preferred Session: Meaningful Impact Assessments Through Indigenous Leadership
Summary Statement: This paper discusses the development of an Indigenous-designed Impact Assessment method and the challenges with meeting the needs of both an Indigenous community and a colonial regulatory pr
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Herbalism a new approach for Engagement with Local Communiities
Abstract ID# 382
Presenting Author: Maria Ana Rubinstein | Coauthor(s): Mariel Soraya Palomeque
Preferred Session: Emerging Practices in Indigenous-led Environmental Assessment
Summary Statement: In 2023, Ausenco initiated a pilot project to establish an Indigenous Herbal Catalog, strengthening connections with Guaraní communities to preserve their valuable ancestral herbal knowledge.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Histories and Just Transformation in Asia
Abstract ID# 664
Presenting Author: Aniket De
Preferred Session: Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives for Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper argues for the importance of treating indigenous histories and cultural practices of Asia as important resources for just transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Impact Assessment of Large Renewable Energy Projects
Abstract ID# 19
Presenting Author: Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: I address the challenges of conducting an Indigenous Impact Assessment of a large renewable energy project affecting a First Nation dispersed over a wide area and multiple urban locations
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous perspectives for a just transformation of the mining sector
Abstract ID# 409
Presenting Author: Johanne Hanko | Coauthor(s): Julie Evans
Preferred Session: Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives for Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Participation and validation of Indigenous people’s concerns regarding the impacts of mining sector development in Suriname to achieve a just transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Perspectives of Health in Canadian Impact Assessments.
Abstract ID# 626
Presenting Author: Lara Durksen | Coauthor(s): Diana Lewis , Veronica Reitmeier
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: A review of Indigenous Knowledge and health literature and Canadian EIA decision reports to assess if engagement is meaningful and properly contextualized.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Sámi knowledge in Climate Impact Assessments on reindeer herding
Abstract ID# 492
Presenting Author: Carl Österlin | Coauthor(s): Ninis Rosqvist , Erik Kjellström , Jonas Vannar , Niila Inga
Preferred Session: Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives for Just Transformation
Summary Statement: How indigenous knowledge of Sámi reindeer herding communities can be combined with climate models for community-led climate impact assessments to support adaptation in Arctic Sweden
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Science and Cumulative Effects
Abstract ID# 164
Presenting Author: Erika Bockstael
Preferred Session: Multi-dimensional cumulative effects assessment with Indigenous peoples
Summary Statement: Indigenous science is wholistic which is an important tool for understanding cumulative effects assessments. Indigenous science framework demonstrates Indigenous laws.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous Values in Analysis and Significance Determination for Assessment
Abstract ID# 238
Presenting Author: Jessica Hiltz | Coauthor(s): Jonathan Ward
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: Adoption of Indigenous ways of knowing effects assessment criteria to determine the magnitude and significance of adverse impacts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous-led measurement of uplift for biodiversity credits
Abstract ID# 727
Presenting Author: Robin Mitchell
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: To create supply of high integrity biodiversity credits, Maori are emerging leaders in provision of high-resolution environmental information mixing science and indigenous knowledge systems.
Acceptance Status: approve
Indigenous-Led Program to Manage Cumulative Effects in Northern Alberta
Abstract ID# 632
Presenting Author: Kevan Berg | Coauthor(s): Felix Faichney
Preferred Session: Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives for Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Fort McKay Métis Nation will share information about an Indigenous-led monitoring program developed to help monitor, assess, and manage cumulative effects in Alberta’s oil sands region.
Acceptance Status: approve
Infrastructure Corridor IAs: County-Wide in AlUla
Abstract ID# 550
Presenting Author: Carla Korpijaakko
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Considerations at the SEA and ESIA level for broad-scale infrastructure development across AlUla County (Saudi Arabia)
Acceptance Status: approve
Infrastructure Development and Compliance with Environmental Policy Instrum
Abstract ID# 686
Presenting Author: Andrea Porras Carrasco | Coauthor(s): Jose Alfredo Valladares Huerta
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A strategy has been devised to develop infrastructure while implementing specific environmental policies and land-use planning instruments through high-impact initiatives.
Acceptance Status: approve
Infusing Sámi rights claims in legal reviews of hydropower licenses
Abstract ID# 303
Presenting Author: Katarina Inga | Coauthor(s): Rasmus Kløcker Larsen
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Indigenous Sámi-led impact assessment and planning process to propose mitigation measures for updated hydropower licenses in the Sámi homeland.
Acceptance Status: approve
Initiatives to respond to evolving environmental and social learning needs
Abstract ID# 191
Presenting Author: Aida Khalil Gomez
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: The presentation will describe IFC’s initiatives, methods, and tools to respond to evolving business and individual environmental and social needs through a competency-based approach.
Acceptance Status: approve
Innovative Approaches to Quantify and Rank Environmental Priorities.
Abstract ID# 231
Presenting Author: Maged Mahmoud Hamed | Coauthor(s): Javaid Afzal , Ernesto Sanchez-Triana , Ana Luisa Gomes , Martin Ochoa & Ruth Tiffer-Sotomayor
Preferred Session: Financing a Just Transition
Summary Statement: This paper examines a methodology for innovative approaches to identifyand rank environmental priorities for a Just Transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Innovative method: Tailings as growth medium eliminating topsoil dependency
Abstract ID# 650
Presenting Author: Robyn Mellett | Coauthor(s): Elindi Jansen van Rensburg , Wandile Mahlalela
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Converting platinum tailings into a growth medium by organic amendment is an innovative, eco friendly, cost effective alternative to conventional topsoil capping for tailings storage facilities.
Acceptance Status: approve
Innovative methods and tools for a Just Transformation
Abstract ID# 605
Presenting Author: Camille Heaton | Coauthor(s): Patrick Francis
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: This session explores strategies to more effectively translate impact assessment goals, findings and recommendations into just transitions for more environmentally and socially sustainable projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Inshore fish harvesting versus offshore wind development: pathways forward
Abstract ID# 283
Presenting Author: Ian Stewart | Coauthor(s): Lyle Porter
Preferred Session: Impact assessments and just energy transformation in Atlantic Canada
Summary Statement: Inshore fish harvesters continue to feel threatened by offshore wind projects. This case study from Nova Scotia, Canada’s lobster industry highlights a path forward for IA at regional scale.
Acceptance Status: approve
INSIGHTS FOR OFFSHORE ENERGY TRANSITION: THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC IA INSTRUMEN
Abstract ID# 220
Presenting Author: Juliana Siqueira-Gay | Coauthor(s): Luis Sánchez , Carla Duarte , Ana Dibo , Alexander Turra
Preferred Session: Impact assessment: enabling or constraining sustainable energy transitions?
Summary Statement: Lessons learned from strategic impact assessment of offshore projects show the need of reviewing and updating the current policies and instruments for supporting new offshore wind projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool: Biodiversity and Social Insights
Abstract ID# 587
Presenting Author: Parthav Mistry | Coauthor(s): Ellen McKee
Preferred Session: Effective use of IA tools and partnerships to protect climate & biodiversity through Just Transition
Summary Statement: The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) provides critical insights into the biodiversity and related social risks and opportunities within direct operations, supply chains and investments.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating diverse community values in CEA for a just transition
Abstract ID# 128
Presenting Author: Chris Buse
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A novel approach to integrating environmental, community and health values in cumulative effects assessment to support a just transition.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating EB-MSP and EBSA Criteria in Celtic Sea Planning
Abstract ID# 546
Presenting Author: Robert Mzungu Runya | Coauthor(s): Denise O’Sullivan , Caitriona Nic Aonghusa , David Reid
Preferred Session: Marine Impact Assessments for Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: This study employs the Ecologically or Biologically Significant marine Areas criteria and GIS multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in identifying suitable MPA and ORE sites.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating environmental interests in the design of Hydropower Projects
Abstract ID# 523
Presenting Author: AVITOL NKWEENDENDA | Coauthor(s): Munyaradzi Munodawafa
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: The project design integrates environmental and social protection while fostering economic development. It positively contributes to balancing conservation with sustainable development.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating Indigenous values into economic impact assessment in Canada
Abstract ID# 330
Presenting Author: Elana Nightingale | Coauthor(s): Diana Lewis
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: This Indigenous community-led case study from Canada explores the potential for integrating Indigenous values into economic impact assessments of resource extraction and industrial projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating Nature & Social Sustainability into ESG for a Just Transition
Abstract ID# 602
Presenting Author: Asli Gurkan | Coauthor(s): Tracy Hart
Preferred Session: ESG and Impact Assessment for Critical Minerals in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The presentation will outline how environment & social sustainability standards might be expanded to support countries to address the just transition in the context of ESG standards.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating social vulnerability into social impact assessment for floods
Abstract ID# 49
Presenting Author: Pablo Aznar-Crespo | Coauthor(s): Guadalupe Ortiz , Antonio Aledo
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: Integrating social vulnerability analyses into social impact assessments applied to flooding events through network analysis: an application to a case study.
Acceptance Status: approve
Integrating the Kikot-Mbebe project into Cameroon's hydropower development
Abstract ID# 582
Presenting Author: Charles Bodel | Coauthor(s): Frederick Jacob
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: How a new hydroelectric project in Cameroon can fit in virtuously with a preserved natural environment
Acceptance Status: approve
Integration of SEA into strategic decision-making, Amaala a case study
Abstract ID# 718
Presenting Author: Ruba Farkh | Coauthor(s): Faisal Alhmoud
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Amaala development case study demonstrate the central role of IA in guiding strategic decision-making. The principles and policies endorsed realize a sustainable and harmonious development
Acceptance Status: approve
Investigating the implementation of biodiversity mitigation in EIA in Chile
Abstract ID# 160
Presenting Author: Rocío Cares | Coauthor(s): Alan Bond , Aldina Franco
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: This study aims to evaluate whether EIA in Chile is achieving a reduction in biodiversity loss, identifying potential routes for improving biodiversity outcomes through EIA practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
Is Our Drinking Water Safe? How Two First Nations Answered This Question.
Abstract ID# 661
Presenting Author: Callie Davies-Flett | Coauthor(s): Mandy Olsgard
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: An Indigenous community led project developing a data analytics tool to assess health risks in complex water treatment data to answer community members questions around the safety of drinking water.
Acceptance Status: approve
Is the Clean energy transition a just transition?
Abstract ID# 567
Presenting Author: Eleanor Seymour | Coauthor(s): Juliette Yasenko
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Renewable energy is a key factor in the transition to a low carbon economy, this paper looks at how ‘just’ that cleaner energy future is.
Acceptance Status: approve
Just energy transition and societal and political pressure
Abstract ID# 271
Presenting Author: Jan Nuesink
Preferred Session: The role of EIA practitioners in a just transformation
Summary Statement: idem
Acceptance Status: approve
Just Transformation - Data Governance and Human Rights Performance
Abstract ID# 266
Presenting Author: Glenn Frommer | Coauthor(s): Andy Chung
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper demonstrates the governance principles for business model and data transformations to meet demanding assessment criteria. Existing publicly available standards and legal precedents cited.
Acceptance Status: approve
Just Transformation and KSEIA
Abstract ID# 206
Presenting Author: MYUNGJIN KIM | Coauthor(s): Sookjin Jeon , Jong-Gwan Jung
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: KSEIA activities may focus on enhancing the academic knowledge and communicating with stakeholders contributing to sustainable impact assessment for a just transformation society.
Acceptance Status: approve
Just transition & Stakeholder engagement, Wind offshore experience in Italy
Abstract ID# 355
Presenting Author: Elena Schirinzi | Coauthor(s): Michele Valery
Preferred Session: Just Transition and Transformation of the Coast and Maritime
Summary Statement: Traditional marine space stakeholders may oppose just transition projects if stakeholder engagement process is not properly designed since scoping phase, the case of Offshore Wind projects in Italy
Acceptance Status: approve
Just transition & the need for assessment of positive human rights impacts
Abstract ID# 136
Presenting Author: Andy Symington
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: In order to achieve a just transition and integrate companies' responses, there is a need for human rights impact assessment to more explicitly consider positive impact.
Acceptance Status: approve
Key ideas and challenges to deploy the appropriate E&S team for hydropower
Abstract ID# 403
Presenting Author: Michel TOMASINO
Preferred Session: Financing a Just Transition
Summary Statement: Based on Nachtigal and Kikot experiences, highlight key ideas and challenges for structuring a robust developer's internal E&S team in hydropower projects
Acceptance Status: approve
Kicking the can down the road? IA, renewable energy and future generations
Abstract ID# 50
Presenting Author: Tina Soliman-Hunter
Preferred Session: Impact assessment: enabling or constraining sustainable energy transitions?
Summary Statement: The rapid implementation of renewable energy is creating significant environmental and economic burdens for future generations if IA does not incorporate recycling and disposal of infrastructure
Acceptance Status: approve
Land Resource Management and Net-Zero Target
Abstract ID# 248
Presenting Author: Chizoba Chinweze
Preferred Session: Environmental management strategies and ethical professional practice for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Land resource management is a critical component to achieving a net zero society. Decisions that lead to changes in land use often contributes to GHG emissions and climate change impacts
Acceptance Status: approve
Landslide impact assessment due to terrain changes using EIASS
Abstract ID# 412
Presenting Author: Sujung Heo
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: Landslide sensitivity, topographic change, disaster management, earthwork volume change index, terrain changes, environmental impact assessment, Sustainable development
Acceptance Status: approve
Learning from innovative approaches to enhance public participation in SEA
Abstract ID# 106
Presenting Author: Gloriana Vargas Castro
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A good practice case study of public participation in SEA is described and discussed, highlighting what worked and did not to further debates and practice on enhanced engagement approaches.
Acceptance Status: approve
Lessons for Meaningfully Assessing Cumulative Social Effects
Abstract ID# 428
Presenting Author: Lauren Arnold
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Key practical lessons for assessing cumulative social effects that can be applied at the regional scale
Acceptance Status: approve
Lessons from biofuels and regenerative agriculture HRIAs
Abstract ID# 480
Presenting Author: Steve Gibbons
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: The presentation and discussion is aimed to draw out key lessons from carrying out HRIAs on climate-focused agriculture projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Lessons from Peru's El Niño Reconstruction and Impact Assessment Process
Abstract ID# 36
Presenting Author: Patrick Wieland
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: This paper explores the institutional and procedural deficiencies within Peru's Impact Assessment framework, highlighting its inadequacy in responding to exceptional events like El Niño.
Acceptance Status: approve
Lessons from the Brumadinho dam disaster to the environmental regulation
Abstract ID# 40
Presenting Author: Andre Naime
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: The 2019 Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil underscored the need for a better integration between impact and risk assessments in environmental regulations. We identify five points for improvement.
Acceptance Status: approve
Let the Facts Guide Us: Tips and Tricks for True Independence
Abstract ID# 493
Presenting Author: Miles Scott-Brown | Coauthor(s): Juan David Quintero
Preferred Session: IA and Due Diligence for sustainable transformation of large projects
Summary Statement: Practice tips and tricks of independent monitoring of large infrastructure projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Liberal education with a twist: opportunities/challenges of teaching SIA
Abstract ID# 631
Presenting Author: Jack Mangala
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: Is there a place for SIA teaching in a liberal arts education landscape? A case study from Grand Valley State University.
Acceptance Status: approve
Limitations and improvements for Korea's SEIA and NLPE system
Abstract ID# 392
Presenting Author: SeonGyeong Lee | Coauthor(s): YeonJu Kim , DalByul Lee , JuChul Jung
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: Recently, problems have been raised regarding the effectiveness and operational conflict between Korea's SEIA and NLPE systems, so we would like to confirm this and suggest improvement measures.
Acceptance Status: approve
Linking Indigenous-led cumulative effects management with impact assessment
Abstract ID# 692
Presenting Author: Katerina Kwon | Coauthor(s): Murray Rutherford
Preferred Session: Meaningful Impact Assessments Through Indigenous Leadership
Summary Statement: Based on conversations with managers of Indigenous cumulative effects programs in Canada, we discuss how such programs can guide and support Indigenous decision-making in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Linking Just Transition Dialogue and Impact Assessment Participation
Abstract ID# 187
Presenting Author: Adebayo Majekolagbe | Coauthor(s): Adebayo Majekolagbe
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: This work identifies lessons in just transition dialogue and impact assessment participation to improve processes in both realms of practice for just outcomes.
Acceptance Status: approve
Listening to silences and erasures in the interview notes
Abstract ID# 141
Presenting Author: Manishankar Prasad
Preferred Session: Decolonising SIA through the attitudes and beliefs of practitioners
Summary Statement: This paper speaks about decolonizing the SIA in Oman
Acceptance Status: approve
Lithium Plant in Canada: A voluntary EIA using the issue based approach
Abstract ID# 420
Presenting Author: Julie Dontigny | Coauthor(s): Benoît Gagnon , Robert Young
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Seizing the risks related to a complex battery project and promoting engagement of stakeholders by conducting a voluntary issue-based EIA: A lithium conversion plant in Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Lithium supply development in Argentina
Abstract ID# 108
Presenting Author: Simon Catchpole | Coauthor(s): Bernardo Parizek
Preferred Session: Impacts and risks of lithium and rare earth elements supply chain
Summary Statement: Extraction of lithium from brines in NW Argentina affects high altitude salt flats in volcanic terrain supporting valued wildlife and traditional livelihoods of indigenous communities.
Acceptance Status: approve
Liz Wall
Abstract ID# 204
Presenting Author: Liz Wall
Preferred Session: What is the role of social and environmental practitioners to provide guidance to boards?
Summary Statement: Liz Wall, Independent Social Specialist and Non-Executive Director
Acceptance Status: approve
Local symbiotic renewable energies beyond NIMBYism
Abstract ID# 51
Presenting Author: Shigeo Nishikizawa
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: Introducing the current situation of environmental conflicts due to wind and solar power projects in Japan, and clarifying the residents' attitude and challenges of a project with local benefits.
Acceptance Status: approve
Location projects and the effects of the volume of information in EIAs
Abstract ID# 596
Presenting Author: German Rivera
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are essential for understanding project effects. Approval/disapproval influences resources. A Brazilian study found a link between EIA volume and project biomes
Acceptance Status: approve
Mainstreaming Just Transition in ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism
Abstract ID# 720
Presenting Author: Richard Sherrington
Preferred Session: IA and Due Diligence for sustainable transformation of large projects
Summary Statement: This paper explores how, in its endeavors with national and private sector partners to decommission fossil fuels plants while transitioning to cleaner power production, social assessment and planning
Acceptance Status: approve
Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Abstract ID# 54
Presenting Author: Jos Arts | Coauthor(s): Angus Morrison-Saunders
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: The aim of this paper session is to share and discuss good practices of IA follow-up worldwide. Participants are invited to discuss effective methods or approaches, and to reflect on making IA follow-
Acceptance Status: approve
Managing impacts related to electrolysers and green hydrogen supply chain
Abstract ID# 391
Presenting Author: Violeta Paginu | Coauthor(s): Taco Hoencamp
Preferred Session: How prepared is IA for next-generation renewable energy megaprojects?
Summary Statement: Exploring environmental and social impacts of large-scale green hydrogen projects, evaluating electrolysers, supply chains, and effective strategies for mitigation and enhancement measures based on on
Acceptance Status: approve
Maneuvering state bureaucracies to advance Indigenous rights
Abstract ID# 79
Presenting Author: Rasmus Kløcker Larsen | Coauthor(s): Mikkel Funder , Cortney Golkar-Dakin (Sâkihitowin Awâsis) , Carol Hunsberger , Martin Marani & Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: A paper that challenges monolithic (and “inevitably bad”) representations of the state and discusses the interactions between decolonizing efforts of Indigenous groups and state bureaucrac
Acceptance Status: approve
Manito Aki Inakonigawin
Abstract ID# 192
Presenting Author: George Kakeway
Preferred Session: Anishinaabe Law: Harmonization & the Role of UNDRIP
Summary Statement: This presentation will provide participants an overview of the Anishinaabe sacred law that governs Anishinaabe relationship to the land, and all decisions in relation to the land.
Acceptance Status: approve
Mapping biodiversity offsets for EIAs
Abstract ID# 434
Presenting Author: Pablo Perez Chaves
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Combining satellite imagery and machine learning as a cost-effective way to map biodiversity offsets for EIAs
Acceptance Status: approve
Mapping risk to herring and sandeel for offshore decarbonization projects
Abstract ID# 509
Presenting Author: Ian Reach
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: Presenting an updated methodology to aid impact assessment on key habitat for herring and sandeel. Futureproofing an accepted UK-wide approach for use in all offshore EIAs.
Acceptance Status: approve
Marginalized by development: Social Impact of Aluminium Park in Odisha
Abstract ID# 337
Presenting Author: Prasanta Parida | Coauthor(s): Pradeep Kumar Mishra
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: The paper discusses a case of implementation problem of government policy mandating social impact of industrial projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Marine indicators to monitor O&G development in Northern Mozambique Channel
Abstract ID# 499
Presenting Author: Julie Dimitrijevic | Coauthor(s): Jose Rubio
Preferred Session: Blue economy, SEA and Marine Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: We will discuss the science-based criteria used to select marine biodiversity features for monitoring oil & gas development within the Northern Mozambique Channel through a multi-stakeholder process.
Acceptance Status: approve
Meaningful engagement delivering for wind energy
Abstract ID# 334
Presenting Author: Pat O'Sullivan
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: A case study on how meaningful engagment lead to tangible community benefit sharing and delivered social acceptance on a onshore wind energy project.
Acceptance Status: approve
Meaningful Mitigation in a more just world
Abstract ID# 354
Presenting Author: Ruaraidh Carthew | Coauthor(s): Alistair MacDonald
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment to help make transformation more just
Summary Statement: An updated and practical mitigation process that combines best practices from the human environment with current guidelines on resilience building and insights on psycho-social impacts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Meaningful visual communication in EIA: stakeholders’ perspectives
Abstract ID# 37
Presenting Author: Ana Roque de Oliveira | Coauthor(s): Sofia Bento , Maria Partidário , Angus Morrison-Saunders
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Qualitative evaluation of effective visual communication in EIA: how visual literacy and choice and design of visual tools promotes engagement and trust among stakeholders.
Acceptance Status: approve
Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change in Nigeria
Abstract ID# 562
Presenting Author: Delight Chigeru
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: Climate change impacts are key drivers of psychological distress and mental health issues
Acceptance Status: approve
Method to Simplify Health Impact Assessment for Infrastructure Projects
Abstract ID# 175
Presenting Author: Mark Divall | Coauthor(s): Izak Olivier
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: Session will outline a simplified approach to addressing complex health impacts in development projects and developing a collective community health management and monitoring approach.
Acceptance Status: approve
Miguel Repas Goncalves
Abstract ID# 645
Presenting Author: Miguel Repas Goncalves
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transformation – Insights and lessons for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Miguel Repas-Goncalves CEO STRIX Portugal
Acceptance Status: approve
Mind the gap – Gaps between IA & Construction in renewable energy.
Abstract ID# 55
Presenting Author: Barry Wiesner
Preferred Session: Impact assessment: enabling or constraining sustainable energy transitions?
Summary Statement: “Mind the gap” – The disconnect between IA and Construction of large-scale renewable energy projects in South Africa. What are these “gaps”, and can they be avoided in future projects?
Acceptance Status: approve
Mitigating the Impacts of the Energy Transition on Vulnerable Communities
Abstract ID# 217
Presenting Author: Etisang Abraham
Preferred Session: Principles for Social Inclusion through Impact Assessment: Rapid Draft
Summary Statement: The transition to renewable energy is necessary to address climate change. However, a just energy transition is required to mitigate the impact of the transition on vulnerable groups.
Acceptance Status: approve
Modeling Wildlife Roadkill Risk on São Paulo Highways Amidst Sugarcane Area
Abstract ID# 340
Presenting Author: Rodrigo Silva
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Analyzing São Paulo's highway wildlife roadkill near sugarcane areas. Aiming to understand patterns, predict risks, and propose mitigation for biodiversity conservation and road safety.
Acceptance Status: approve
Monitoring Impacts of an All-Season Road: Indigenous Adaptive Management
Abstract ID# 92
Presenting Author: Janelle Kuntz | Coauthor(s): Ginger Gibson MacDonald , Tammy Steinwand , Tyanna Steinwand
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: In 2018, the Tlicho Highway was approved for construction to the remote community of Whati. It is model of Indigenous leadership and resiliency in an environmental assessment process.
Acceptance Status: approve
Monitoring impacts of climate action for a just transition at city level
Abstract ID# 511
Presenting Author: Katarina Kosutova | Coauthor(s): Joana dos Santos Gonçalves , Han Vandevyvere
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: Our research investigates how cities from Re-Value HEU project are monitoring the impact of their climate strategies for a socially just transition.
Acceptance Status: approve
Natasha Reifschneider - Panel member in session
Abstract ID# 45
Presenting Author: Natasha Reifschneider
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transformation – Insights and lessons for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Natasha is an Environmental Assessment and Planning practitioner from Australia with twenty-five years’ experience in impact assessment and approvals.
Acceptance Status: approve
Natural Capital and the GBF: Opportunities for businesses and nature
Abstract ID# 517
Presenting Author: Ida Bailey
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: We discuss the challenges and opportunities for achieving real impact for nature via natural capital and biodiversity projects inc. business strategy, reporting, target-setting and monitoring.
Acceptance Status: approve
Nature Positive: what this means and how to achieve it
Abstract ID# 224
Presenting Author: Mark Johnston | Coauthor(s): Stacey Baggaley
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: What does nature positive mean for businesses? Here we present some principles and actions businesses need to be embedding in order to contribute and align with this global goal for nature.
Acceptance Status: approve
Navigating the Currents of Power of SEA Effectiveness
Abstract ID# 179
Presenting Author: Margarida Pereira | Coauthor(s): Alexandra Polido , Filipe Teles , Sara Moreno Pires , Patrícia Silva & Carlos Rodrigues ; Carlos Jalali
Preferred Session: The SEA Directive in EU, 20 Years on, implementation and effectiveness.
Summary Statement: Actors in SEA processes engage in power relations that have an impact on the decision-making and effectiveness. This study aims to examine the formation and role of power dynamics in SEA.
Acceptance Status: approve
Navigating the Decarbonization–Decolonization Nexus: Roles & Limits of CBA
Abstract ID# 272
Presenting Author: David Wright
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Cost-benefit analysis has roles to play in navigating tension between decarbonization and Indigenous self-determination. This paper focuses on limitations and innovations for CBA in this context.
Acceptance Status: approve
Net Gain - An MDB Perspective
Abstract ID# 165
Presenting Author: Peter Moore
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: The challenges (and opportunities) in developing a MDB compliant Net Gain strategy
Acceptance Status: approve
New EIA regulation in Portugal: a step backwards
Abstract ID# 505
Presenting Author: Margarida Lameiras | Coauthor(s): Júlio Jesus
Preferred Session: Streamlining Environmental Assessments to Enable Transformation
Summary Statement: Portugal recent changes to the EIA regulations are presented, both in terms of thresholds, deadlines, and procedures, and highlighting the non-compliance with provisions of the EIA directive
Acceptance Status: approve
Niiwin Wendaanimok Partnership Anishinaabe Guardians Program
Abstract ID# 535
Presenting Author: Robyn Houle | Coauthor(s): Heather Webb
Preferred Session: Meaningful Impact Assessments Through Indigenous Leadership
Summary Statement: This session will explore the Anishinaabe Guardians program in Treaty 3, who are the stewards of the lands, waters, soils, and skies for the Highway 17 Twinning Project.
Acceptance Status: approve
Noise mapping and Web-based Noise Impact Assessment Systems in Hong Kong
Abstract ID# 212
Presenting Author: Man Ting Tam | Coauthor(s): Ka Wai Chan , Kit Mei Lin , Yau Hang Lee , Chee Kwan Lee
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: During the review of EIA process, the EPD uploaded geospatial data and developed several modelling applications to reduce the preparation time of complex noise models.
Acceptance Status: approve
Open Science & Data Platform: a tool to inform evidence based decisions
Abstract ID# 640
Presenting Author: Jessica Coulson | Coauthor(s): Kelsea Deblois
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Innovative approaches to making science, data and regulatory information openly accessible to support IA and evidence based decision making: Government of Canada’s Open Science and Data Platform
Acceptance Status: approve
Operationalising target-based ecological compensation for mining impacts
Abstract ID# 440
Presenting Author: Thomas Lloyd | Coauthor(s): Laura Sonter
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: Application of a novel approach to augment inadequate ecological compensation policies with actions required to achieve conservation targets designed to reverse the trend of biodiversity loss
Acceptance Status: approve
Opportunities and challenges: Perspectives from the multi-disciplinary world
Abstract ID# 588
Presenting Author: MATTHEW HUNT
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: Thriving in the face of changing requirements, consultancies continually adapt, particularly when developing and retaining skills. This contribution reflects on the evolving IA professional, drawing o
Acceptance Status: approve
Optimizing Co-adaptation: A Framework for Maximizing Equity
Abstract ID# 276
Presenting Author: Suzanne Moreland | Coauthor(s): Leticia Solaun
Preferred Session: Benefit-sharing for a fair and just transformation.
Summary Statement: The Cultural Co-adaptation Benefit Framework provides the basis for enhanced benefit sharing, resilience, and social value. This poster presents the framework, describing the five key parameters that
Acceptance Status: approve
Our role - from environmental assessors to environmental influencers
Abstract ID# 270
Presenting Author: Jeremy Randall
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: If we are to avert a climate & biodiversity crisis, we need to approach our role as environmental practitioners differently. It’s time we stopped assessing projects and started influencing them.
Acceptance Status: approve
Overcoming Challenges in EIA: Environmental Science Students in Argentina
Abstract ID# 22
Presenting Author: Verónica Giberti | Coauthor(s): Daniela Picardi
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: .Two decades of teaching EIA. Key professionals for the country's development and environmental protection.
Acceptance Status: approve
Panel member in the hypothetical
Abstract ID# 219
Presenting Author: Sandra Mols
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transformation – Insights and lessons for impact assessment
Summary Statement: Panel member in the hypothetical.
Acceptance Status: approve
Panelist
Abstract ID# 350
Presenting Author: IÑIGO SOBRINI
Preferred Session: The role of EIA practitioners in a just transformation
Summary Statement: I will expose my point of view about the the role of practitioners in a just transformation and the state of the art of this particular issue in Spain
Acceptance Status: approve
Panelist on SEA methods for public engagement in just transitions
Abstract ID# 214
Presenting Author: Peter Nelson | Coauthor(s): Jack Keogh
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transformation – Insights and lessons for impact assessment
Summary Statement: This contribution to the debate will focus on real-life examples of public consultation in SEA processes, highlighting both successful and less successful approaches
Acceptance Status: approve
Partnering with communities in research for a just transition
Abstract ID# 599
Presenting Author: Laura Major | Coauthor(s): Jen Roberts
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Partnering with communities in research for climate resilient and low-carbon futures: insights from the field and contributions towards best practice principles
Acceptance Status: approve
People-positive renewable energy: towards a competition for just outcomes
Abstract ID# 327
Presenting Author: Adele Tharani
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: Evaluating people-positivity of renewable energy projects can help propell progress towards a more just transformation, similarly to carbon and biodiversity net-impact measurement frameworks.
Acceptance Status: approve
PHILCESS: Opportunities And Challenges in Building a Community of Practice
Abstract ID# 321
Presenting Author: Bryan Gencianeo Alamani
Preferred Session: Certification and Accreditation in SIA: Opportunities & Challenges
Summary Statement: This paper aims to share PHILCESS' experience in establishing a community of practice through capacity-building. PHILCESS trains professionals, collaborates with stakeholders, and is committe
Acceptance Status: approve
Planning for Jharkhand’s post-coal future: A people’s perspective
Abstract ID# 86
Presenting Author: Soumya Kapoor Mehta
Preferred Session: Using Social Impact Assessments as a Policy Tool to Guide Just Transition
Summary Statement: This panel will assess the potential impacts of coal transition in the mining state of Jharkhand (India) that is likely to affect 1.3 million workers.
Acceptance Status: approve
PM10 concentration and land uses in different spatial and temporal scales
Abstract ID# 542
Presenting Author: Jin-Oh Kim | Coauthor(s): Jeong-Il Park
Preferred Session: Linking Urban Health and SDGs through Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: This study aims to understand how land uses in differently sized buffer zones surrounding PM monitoring stations are correlated with PM10 concentrations.
Acceptance Status: approve
Policy & Legal Reforms for Climate & Social Justice to Waste Pickers
Abstract ID# 441
Presenting Author: Harjot Kaur
Preferred Session: No Longer on Margins-Towards Social & Climate Justice in SWM Sector
Summary Statement: Develop a framework for formalized and safe work conditions for waste pickers as a blueprint for legislative and policy shifts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Policy instruments, administrative burdens, and environmental coproduction:
Abstract ID# 32
Presenting Author: Youlang Zhang
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Administrative burdens significantly decrease the respondents’ willingness to participate in household waste sorting.
Acceptance Status: approve
Post-approval performance of 232 licensed projects: towards low efficiency?
Abstract ID# 121
Presenting Author: Alberto Fonseca | Coauthor(s): Alessandra Serrano
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: This study provides one of the largest empirical evaluations of post-approval performance in Brazil.
Acceptance Status: approve
Principles for sound waste management in South African protected areas
Abstract ID# 116
Presenting Author: Claudine Roos | Coauthor(s): Reece Alberts , Francois Retief , Dirk Cilliers , Alan Bond
Preferred Session: Effective use of IA tools and partnerships to protect climate & biodiversity through Just Transition
Summary Statement: The paper proposes principles for the responsible management of waste in protected areas, with the aim to protect biodiversity and ecosystems, and to mitigate climate change impacts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Promoting Identity and Agency of Informal Waste Pickers as Green Agents
Abstract ID# 443
Presenting Author: Varalakshmi Vemuru | Coauthor(s): Harjot Kaur
Preferred Session: No Longer on Margins-Towards Social & Climate Justice in SWM Sector
Summary Statement: Evoke ideas and commitments on interventions that support dignified identities and capacities of waste pickers as green agents.
Acceptance Status: approve
Proposal for Adaptive Management of Offshore Wind Power Projects in Japan
Abstract ID# 211
Presenting Author: Ayano Takeuchi
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: My study focus is the appropriate process for adoptive management for offshore wind projects with the Japanese case study.
Acceptance Status: approve
Protecting Biodiversity: enhancing baseline and monitoring mechanisms
Abstract ID# 319
Presenting Author: Phillip Ziduche | Coauthor(s): Munyaradzi Munodawafa , Sithembinkosi Mhlanga , Christopher Chisense , Avitol Nkweendenda & Mwelwa Sata
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: eDNA presents the greatest opportunity to reliably and accurately monitor aquatic biodiversity and bridges gaps the traditional methods manifest.
Acceptance Status: approve
Protecting human rights and the environment through impact assessments
Abstract ID# 225
Presenting Author: Caroline Brodeur
Preferred Session: Connecting People and Planet: Respecting the environment and human rights
Summary Statement: Impact assessment and corporate accountability expert, specialized in human rights, capacity building and accompaniment of rights holders.
Acceptance Status: approve
Public Acceptance of Wind Energies Located Near the Nuclear Power Plant
Abstract ID# 347
Presenting Author: Kaiqi Liu | Coauthor(s): Shigeo Nishikizawa , Takehiko Murayama , Kultip Suwanteep
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: This research aims to clarify factors influencing community acceptance of wind energies located near the largest nuclear power plant in China by face-to-face questionnaire and online survey.
Acceptance Status: approve
Public Participation in Mega Projects
Abstract ID# 104
Presenting Author: Tim Peirson-Smith
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: The paper presents an overview of strategies and tactics for meaningful public participation in mega projects, focusing on large infrastructure and planning developments in Hong Kong and in Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Public sector and hydro-power in Nepal: Organization and management issues
Abstract ID# 68
Presenting Author: Lars Soeftestad | Coauthor(s): Michael Holics
Preferred Session: Fair compensation for just transformation
Summary Statement: he paper addresses the organization and management of the hydro-power sector in Nepal. The focus is on the key role of the public sector. Suggestions to increase its capacity are discussed.
Acceptance Status: approve
Public Sector Participation and Resettlement in Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 82
Presenting Author: Bhupendra Sharma | Coauthor(s): Bhupendra Sharma
Preferred Session: ESG and Impact Assessment for Critical Minerals in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: achieving meaningful public sector participation should be encouraged and implemented strictly with continuous improvement in the processes and practices so to achieve sustainable development
Acceptance Status: approve
Questions for Boards
Abstract ID# 439
Presenting Author: Paul Hollesen
Preferred Session: What is the role of social and environmental practitioners to provide guidance to boards?
Summary Statement: Paul is a sustainability professional engaged in a mix of corporate and NGO consulting and facilitation work, acting as a trusted advisor to both individuals and senior leadership teams.
Acceptance Status: approve
Ready for Business: Waste Pickers Organizations and Enterprises
Abstract ID# 488
Presenting Author: Asib Zekir
Preferred Session: No Longer on Margins-Towards Social & Climate Justice in SWM Sector
Summary Statement: Highlight collectivizing efforts of waste-pickers’ owned enterprises for just-recycling.
Acceptance Status: approve
REAs in the UK – a case study from the dredging industry
Abstract ID# 551
Presenting Author: Marja Aberson | Coauthor(s): Ian Reach
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: Summary of the voluntary UK marine aggregate REA process, that supports licensing, and provides an assessment model for decarbonization activities co-occurring in constrained regions..
Acceptance Status: approve
Recharging Community Consent: Operationalizing FPIC in impact assessment
Abstract ID# 612
Presenting Author: Emily Greenspan
Preferred Session: ESG and Impact Assessment for Critical Minerals in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Oxfam will share new research mapping the free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and human rights policy commitments of 43 companies that mine battery minerals.
Acceptance Status: approve
Reclaiming Indigenous Economic Development through Participatory Action Res
Abstract ID# 681
Presenting Author: Matthew Matthew | Coauthor(s): Astrid Vanessa Pérez Piñán
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: This paper offers a novel gender-responsive community engagement method to facilitate discussions about Indigenous economic development and related indicators.
Acceptance Status: approve
Recognising cultural dimensions in psycho-social impact assessment
Abstract ID# 472
Presenting Author: Helen Ross
Preferred Session: Psycho-social impact assessment to help make transformation more just
Summary Statement: This presentation reviews what is currently known about psychosocial impacts, and explores the need for greater understanding of cultural dimensions.
Acceptance Status: approve
Rediscovering the power to communicate
Abstract ID# 603
Presenting Author: Nick Giesler
Preferred Session: The power of communication!
Summary Statement: Prioritising good communication is vital if we want people to deliver better environmental outcomes. What are the skills and techniques needed to rediscover this lost art?
Acceptance Status: approve
Reducing climate-carbon cycle positive feedback by Adaptive Management
Abstract ID# 254
Presenting Author: Evandro Moretto | Coauthor(s): Amarilis Gallardo
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Opportunities for Adaptive Management processes in IA follow-up aiming at reducing climate-carbon cycle positive feedback and new local impacts on the hydropower energy generation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Reflecting Indigenous perspectives in Environmental Assessments in BC
Abstract ID# 679
Presenting Author: Valerie Masterman | Coauthor(s): Jaimie Dickson
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: The 2018 BC Environmental Assessment Act requires that Indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the scope of the EA process, and this can look different for each Indigenous Nation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Reflections on Heritage Impact Assessment: Practice in the Netherlands
Abstract ID# 267
Presenting Author: Patrick Patiwael
Preferred Session: The role of Impact Assessment in protecting and enhancing heritage
Summary Statement: This paper reflects on how the dozens of Heritage Impact Assessments in the Netherlands contributed to protecting and enhancing Dutch cultural World Heritage sites.
Acceptance Status: approve
Reforming Canada's regional assessments for sustainability & federalism
Abstract ID# 521
Presenting Author: Rod Northey
Preferred Session: From the top down: Are regional assessments the key to sustainability?
Summary Statement: In response to constitutional issues with Canada's Impact Assessment Act, this paper advances reform of regional assessment to focus on sustainability and consistency with federal authority.
Acceptance Status: approve
Regulation and Social Justice
Abstract ID# 651
Presenting Author: Rob Sherry
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: How can project proponents and relevant regulators bring local communities along on the journey in a positive manner during the of construction of renewable energy projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Regulators collaborating and innovating to enhance impact assessment outcomes
Abstract ID# 289
Presenting Author: Gregory Abood | Coauthor(s): Paul Thompson
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Effective working partnerships between impact assessment regulators in AELERT is critical to grow towards world’s best practice, build IA integrity and promote perceptions of just transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Regulatory efficiency for clean growth projects: Canada's approach
Abstract ID# 182
Presenting Author: Marla Orenstein
Preferred Session: How prepared is IA for next-generation renewable energy megaprojects?
Summary Statement: Lengthy regulatory timelines for impact assessment and permitting increase the challenge of reaching clean energy goals. What actions is Canada taking to increase regulatory efficiency, and will it wo
Acceptance Status: approve
Respecting Indigenous Governance in Impact Assessment:a Canadian Experience
Abstract ID# 623
Presenting Author: Danielle Smyth | Coauthor(s): Meaghan Hoyle
Preferred Session: Partnerships in Impact Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: British Columbia shares experiences developing and implementing IA legislation, policies and partnerships that recognize Indigenous jurisdiction, align with UNDRIP and lead to durable decisions.
Acceptance Status: approve
Restoring Relationships with the Land and Water: Indigenous-led Remediation
Abstract ID# 359
Presenting Author: Tara Lamothe | Coauthor(s): Marilyn Morash , James Redford , Violet Camsell-Blondin , Janelle Kuntz & Ugo Lapointe
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: The authors explore how two First Nations developed community-led remediation objectives and are leveraging these when collaborating with colonial governments to restore lands and cultures.
Acceptance Status: approve
Rewilding as an operational landscape-level approach to ‘Nature Positive'
Abstract ID# 629
Presenting Author: Fabien Quétier
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Rewilding in an emerging approach to nature’s recovery which enables conservation and restoration interventions to be embedded into a long-term landscape-scale and socially inclusive strategy.
Acceptance Status: approve
Risk assessment framework for cumulative effects (RAFCE)
Abstract ID# 449
Presenting Author: John Boakye-Danquah
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The Risk Assessment Framework for Cumulative Effects (RAFCE) was developed to identify, quantify, and prioritize cumulative environmental impacts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Risk-based Management Framework for Desalination in the Red Sea Project
Abstract ID# 569
Presenting Author: Edwin Palmer | Coauthor(s): Edward Oldmeadow
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: A Risk-based Management Framework for Design and Operation of Desalination Facilities on the Red Sea Coastline of KSA – A Case Study from the Red Sea Project
Acceptance Status: approve
Risks of mining scope creep in Canada through a modern mineral rush
Abstract ID# 107
Presenting Author: Ben Collison | Coauthor(s): Alana Westwood , Sasha Mines
Preferred Session: Compliance/Enforcement for Transformative ESIA Project Impact Management
Summary Statement: In Canada’s modern mining rush, ‘scope creep’ threatens the integrity of EIA processes. We recommend closing loopholes through procedural transparency and consideration of cumulative effects
Acceptance Status: approve
Role of IA in Promoting Inuit Rights & Just Transition in Arctic Shipping
Abstract ID# 514
Presenting Author: Patricia Galvao Ferreira | Coauthor(s): Sara Seck
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Paper examines the role of impact assessment laws in Canada in ensuring that governance of shipping in the Arctic is informed and guided by Inuit rights and laws and the concept of just transition.
Acceptance Status: approve
ROLE OF KEY ACTORS FOR AN EFFECTIVE LICENSE INSTRUMENT IN ARGENTINE AGRO
Abstract ID# 17
Presenting Author: Melina Gisela Santomauro | Coauthor(s): Pablo Cañada , Carlos Cattaneo , M. Victoria Bona , Julieta Bencuya & M. Laura Iacovo
Preferred Session: Principles for Social Inclusion through Impact Assessment: Rapid Draft
Summary Statement: From field to the table. Contributions from key actors for the formulation of an effective environmental license instrument for agricultural productions in operation.
Acceptance Status: approve
Role of SEA in mining for the energy transition
Abstract ID# 80
Presenting Author: Greg Radford
Preferred Session: Strategic environmental assessment in mining for a just transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation explores the role that SEA can play in helping governments balance multiple interests and make informed decisions to meet the growing demand for minerals and metals.
Acceptance Status: approve
Sandeep Pai
Abstract ID# 163
Presenting Author: Sandeep Pai
Preferred Session: Using Social Impact Assessments as a Policy Tool to Guide Just Transition
Summary Statement: Dr. Sandeep Pai, Research Director, Swaniti Global
Acceptance Status: approve
Scaling SIA for Large Infrastructure Projects – A Pathway to Enhanced ESG P
Abstract ID# 461
Presenting Author: Alias Rameli
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: This presentation explores scaling social impact assessment (SIA) in large projects, emphasising its alignment with ESG principles for more sustainable development.
Acceptance Status: approve
Scoping the unscopable
Abstract ID# 277
Presenting Author: Martin Haefele | Coauthor(s): Elisabeth Gagnon
Preferred Session: Remember the intangibles and spiritual values for a just transition
Summary Statement: The assessment of an abandoned mine reclamation project had to develop ways to use values-based reference points to determine significance and develop mitigation measures for intangibles like trust.
Acceptance Status: approve
Scott Bailey
Abstract ID# 399
Presenting Author: Scott Bailey
Preferred Session: The Role of Governments in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement:
Acceptance Status: approve
SEA at a Crossroad: Trends in Austria’s Transport Infrastructure Planning
Abstract ID# 123
Presenting Author: Felix Sternath
Preferred Session: The SEA Directive in EU, 20 Years on, implementation and effectiveness.
Summary Statement: The paper contains critical learnings from 15 years of SEA practice in Austria’s transport infrastructure planning and provides ideas for the future of SEA practice in Europe.
Acceptance Status: approve
SEA implementation in Ireland - 20 Years of practice, the story so far.
Abstract ID# 559
Presenting Author: Tadhg O'Mahony | Coauthor(s): Suzanne Wylde
Preferred Session: The SEA Directive in EU, 20 Years on, implementation and effectiveness.
Summary Statement: This presentation will outline the story of SEA, SEA effectiveness and governance in Ireland over the last 20 years and will conclude with key recommendations on ongoing improvements to SEA.
Acceptance Status: approve
SEA in energy sector: two different approaches from Iberian Peninsula
Abstract ID# 549
Presenting Author: Cecilia Rocha | Coauthor(s): Luísa Batista , Nuno Matos , Margarida Fonseca , Paulo Conceição
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation aims to critically analyse two distinct approaches to implementing SEA within the energy sector in two countries sharing a similar context and strategic reference framework.
Acceptance Status: approve
SEA in mining: addressing obstacles and harvesting benefits
Abstract ID# 304
Presenting Author: Joyce Kortlandt | Coauthor(s): Carlos Ortega , Laurie Borelli
Preferred Session: Strategic environmental assessment in mining for a just transformation
Summary Statement: Developing SEA in mining is still in its early stages. Case studies highlight different obstacles and solutions and show the benefits of SEA moving towards more responsible mining.
Acceptance Status: approve
SEA Monitoring insights from Ireland’s HV Electricity Network
Abstract ID# 689
Presenting Author: Robert Fennelly
Preferred Session: Making follow-up happen to transform IA practice
Summary Statement: To optimise Strategic Environmental Assessment monitoring, Ireland’s Transmission System Operator EirGrid resourced deep changes to policies, geospatial data gathering , reporting frequency
Acceptance Status: approve
SEA of Marine Spatial Plans in Ireland
Abstract ID# 586
Presenting Author: Tom Woolley
Preferred Session: Blue economy, SEA and Marine Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: SEA of Maritime Spatial Plans in Ireland.
Acceptance Status: approve
SESA of the Mining Sector in Mongolia
Abstract ID# 64
Presenting Author: David Annandale
Preferred Session: Strategic environmental assessment in mining for a just transformation
Summary Statement: This case study presents a SESA of the mining sector in Mongolia. The SESA sought to assess the environmental and social implications of infrastructure over a 30-year period.
Acceptance Status: approve
Session ID 183: Future of the IA profession in the public sector
Abstract ID# 405
Presenting Author: Nicola Parker
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: To be discussed further with Session Chair (Rufus Howard) upon acceptance.
Acceptance Status: approve
Setting up indicators to improve EIA effectiveness and governance processes
Abstract ID# 671
Presenting Author: Gustavo Zuleta | Coauthor(s): Miguel Canoura , Marcelo Somenson , Carolina del Valle , Alejandro Dorado
Preferred Session: IA for better policy-making: current trends and new methods
Summary Statement: The development of 63 effectiveness indicators is presented to meet challenges of EIA governance and contribute to a professional standardization system.
Acceptance Status: approve
Shared experience of SEA implementation from Malta and Ireland
Abstract ID# 580
Presenting Author: Maryann Harris | Coauthor(s): Pierre Hili
Preferred Session: The SEA Directive in EU, 20 Years on, implementation and effectiveness.
Summary Statement: Two island nations within the EU with uniquely rich biodiversity and cultural heritage share their experience of implementing SEA in a post-colonial context to plan for their growing economies.
Acceptance Status: approve
Shared value towards SLO: engagement and growth, approaching Communities.
Abstract ID# 513
Presenting Author: Margarida Pinto-Correia
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: Enhancing people’s rights and a social license to operate, the energy transition @EDP is focusing on local communities. Projects enhance the respect needed, with a shared value perspective.
Acceptance Status: approve
SI of establishing National Parks: Evaluation of typical local communities
Abstract ID# 414
Presenting Author: Yuqi Zhang
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: The study assesses social impacts within the Giant Panda National Park, to disclose the differences in impacts on three typical types of local communities from the construction of the park.
Acceptance Status: approve
SIA in coal mining communities- emerging methodology ramifications
Abstract ID# 218
Presenting Author: Christopher Mahoney | Coauthor(s): Jillian Ash
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: Methodological challenges faced by SIA’s for projects in communities which have a high dependency on coal mining. Outlines a more insightful methodological approach to SIA in transition communities.
Acceptance Status: approve
SIA of Relocation Project for Poverty Alleviation Based on Satisfaction
Abstract ID# 288
Presenting Author: Zhengfang Chen | Coauthor(s): Shaojun Chen
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: The migrants are regarded as the "customers" of the poverty alleviation and relocation project, and migrants' satisfaction is used to assess the possible impacts of the relocation
Acceptance Status: approve
SIA, a tool to project future societal changes and guide closure planning
Abstract ID# 508
Presenting Author: Karen Dingley
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: This paper will examine the SIA process and whether it is incumbent to not only review community impacts through the current “lens”, but also to consider how society will change over time.
Acceptance Status: approve
SIAs as a tool to drive local job creation and lasting social impact
Abstract ID# 624
Presenting Author: Priyanka Sunder | Coauthor(s): Emma Tiaree
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: Traditional SIAs place too little emphasis on local employment capacity and driving lasting employment outcomes. AIFFP is challenging the status quo by embedding local employment into decision-making.
Acceptance Status: approve
Simultaneously Supporting the Just Transition and Biodiversity
Abstract ID# 659
Presenting Author: Virginia King | Coauthor(s): Joseph Steinbacher
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Renewable natural capital, and the ecosystem services it provides, creates opportunities to strategically support the “Just Transition” and bolster sustainable protection of biodiversity Learn how!
Acceptance Status: approve
Sk^na N^ yotye l ^hake' in Oneida Nation of the Thames
Abstract ID# 565
Presenting Author: Olivia Thom | Coauthor(s): Community member co-presenter to be determined by the CAC.
Preferred Session: Indigenous perspectives on a just transformation
Summary Statement: Community-based research with the Oneida Nation of the Thames Clan Mothers to create an environmental health and wellness survey reflective of the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace.
Acceptance Status: approve
Smart Application for EIA Process: Harnessing the Potential of the CED
Abstract ID# 174
Presenting Author: Kin Man, Danny MAK | Coauthor(s): Chi Chung WONG , Kam Wa, Clara U
Preferred Session: Innovative Data Sharing and Governance for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This paper will introduce and elaborate on how the CED can assist the stakeholders at various stages of the EIA process, the key features of the CED and the data protection measures implemen
Acceptance Status: approve
SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT-SHARING
Abstract ID# 463
Presenting Author: Akuma Oji | Coauthor(s): Tamunotonye Erekosima
Preferred Session: Synergies of impact assessment and circular economy
Summary Statement: deployment of the ICTC skills of the teeming unemployed youths for environmental waste management and economic benefit
Acceptance Status: approve
Social considerations and offsets
Abstract ID# 545
Presenting Author: Hugo Rainey | Coauthor(s): Suzanne Livingstone , Michael Riddell , Malcolm Starkey
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Biodiversity offsets are often planned in sites used and owned by people. Delivering positive social outcomes from offsets is important in itself and supports lasting biodiversity gains.
Acceptance Status: approve
Social determinants of health and health impact assessment (HIA) in Lao PDR
Abstract ID# 34
Presenting Author: Tayphasavanh FENGTHONG | Coauthor(s): Mrs Kab Manivanh Phouxay , Mrs Somkit Boulidam , Mrs Vilay FENGTHONG , Mrs Oulavanh Singsamphanh
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: The Social determinants of health play a key role in in HIA process and supporting in health planning, prevention and mitigation measures.
Acceptance Status: approve
Social Dimensions of DNSH | Minimum Safeguards, EIA, and EU Taxonomy
Abstract ID# 262
Presenting Author: Alka Patel | Coauthor(s): Alexandra Bezeredi
Preferred Session: Sustainable Finance and Impact Assessment in the EU
Summary Statement: The paper will explore the social dimensions of what it is to "do no significant harm" and minimum safeguards in the context of EIA and the EU taxonomy.
Acceptance Status: approve
Social impact assessment methods and participation of marginalized group
Abstract ID# 188
Presenting Author: Felicitas Egunyu | Coauthor(s): John Boakye-Danquah
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: This study examines methods used in social impact assessment and the people who participate. It considers best practices for inclusive participation.
Acceptance Status: approve
SOCIAL INCLUSION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING UNDER URBAN RENEWAL
Abstract ID# 458
Presenting Author: Forkanizam Dolhadi
Preferred Session: Linking Urban Health and SDGs through Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: policymakers and urban planners can shape transformative initiatives that prioritize the well-being of all residents while safeguarding the environment for future generations
Acceptance Status: approve
Social inclusivity for climate adaptive approaches for Climate Justice
Abstract ID# 725
Presenting Author: Madhuri Parikh
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: The present paper focuses on some case studies from India who have taken initiatives in following climate adaptive practices. Their works have made remarkable impacts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Social value through localization: Canada and South Africa case studies
Abstract ID# 752
Presenting Author: Eleanor Gill | Coauthor(s): Courtney Levesque-Thomas , Suzette De Wet
Preferred Session: Post-ESIA Contractor Management and Value Creation: What Drives Success?
Summary Statement: Comparing success factors in Indigenous economic inclusion and localization practices in Canada and South Africa: Meaningful engagement & transparency in procurement/employment processes.
Acceptance Status: approve
Socioeconomic Impact Assessment tool for effective just transition policies
Abstract ID# 713
Presenting Author: Kusum Lata | Coauthor(s): William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: There is exponential increase in actions to mitigate climate change. The actions come with social and economic impacts. The cost of these social and economic costs has be integral part of planning and
Acceptance Status: approve
Some Aspects of the Impact of Abandoned Urban Areas from Baia Mare, Romania
Abstract ID# 447
Presenting Author: Radu Todoran | Coauthor(s): Daniela Todoran
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: Stopping the expansion of invasive species of urban plants in disused or abandoned urban areas and their ecological integration
Acceptance Status: approve
Spatial modeling in the scoping of environmental impact assessment
Abstract ID# 416
Presenting Author: Felipe Araujo | Coauthor(s): Rafael Ajuz , Pedro da Silva
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Aplication of a spatial modelling aproach, during the scoping phase of Environmental Impact Assessment of power lines, to improve the analysis of alternatives for new projects in Brazil.
Acceptance Status: approve
Spatial Stats: Carbon-Optimized Waste Disposal
Abstract ID# 684
Presenting Author: Carlos Lacerda Souza | Coauthor(s): Ricardo Souza
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: Utilizing spatial statistical analysis, our model optimizes waste disposal, minimizing carbon footprint while balancing economic and environmental constraints effectively.
Acceptance Status: approve
Spirit of the Land: A Cultural Impact and Restitution Assessment Toolkit
Abstract ID# 377
Presenting Author: Jasmine Thomas
Preferred Session: Supporting the transition towards a holistic assessment of cultural rights
Summary Statement: The FNMPC’s Cultural Rights and Interest Toolkit is an innovative and adaptable tool for assessing impacts and cumulative effects on Indigenous cultural rights in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Spirit of the Land: A Cultural Impact and Restitution Assessment Toolkit
Abstract ID# 393
Presenting Author: Jesse McCormick
Preferred Session: Supporting the transition towards a holistic assessment of cultural rights
Summary Statement: The FNMPC's Cultural Impact and Restitution Toolkit is an innovative and adaptable tool for assessing impacts and cumulative effects on Indigenous cultural rights in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Spirit of the Land: A Cultural Impact and Restitution Toolkit
Abstract ID# 371
Presenting Author: Kimberley Keller
Preferred Session: Supporting the transition towards a holistic assessment of cultural rights
Summary Statement: The FNMPC’s Cultural Impact and Restitution Toolkit is an innovative and adaptable tool for assessing impacts and cumulative effects on Indigenous cultural rights in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Starting at the end: a proposal to improve ESIA effectiveness
Abstract ID# 648
Presenting Author: Steve McIlwaine | Coauthor(s): Sarah Murfitt
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: This paper examines project case studies where the approved ESIA was found inadequate by the lender, and proposes a new approach where the study is driven by a provisional management plan.
Acceptance Status: approve
STRATEGIC CULTURA RESOURCE IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND DAM SAF
Abstract ID# 553
Presenting Author: Reanto Kipnis
Preferred Session: Importance of Culture and Cultural Heritage in SEA
Summary Statement: Brazil's 23,000 dams pose significant risks, highlighted by recent disasters. This study assesses cultural resources in Amazonia to enhance dam safety and emergency action plans.
Acceptance Status: approve
Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of the Mining Sector in Ghana
Abstract ID# 451
Presenting Author: Yaw Amoyaw-Osei
Preferred Session: Strategic environmental assessment in mining for a just transformation
Summary Statement: Ghana's mining sector faces unprecedented challenges. The 2008 sector SEA only had limited impact. The presentation highlights recommendations that could curtail illegalities characterizing the sector
Acceptance Status: approve
Strategic Environmental Assessment for Urban Systems Transformation
Abstract ID# 41
Presenting Author: Alexandra Polido
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This research shows the role of SEA for urban transformations by promoting governance, knowledge sharing, and resilience.
Acceptance Status: approve
Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Study on the Use of Gene Drive.
Abstract ID# 24
Presenting Author: Kofi Aggrey | Coauthor(s): Astrid Knoblauch , Thomas Fischer
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: An SEA scoping study investigates the possible application of gene drive technology in 15 West African nations in the fight against malaria. Join us as we assess its effects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Strategic Thinking for Sustainability (ST4S) for a Just Transformation
Abstract ID# 459
Presenting Author: Maria Partidario | Coauthor(s): Margarida Barata Monteiro
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation aims to share experiences with the application of ST4S, an IA innovative approach that performs in a strategic and innovative way towards transformative change, supporting just trans
Acceptance Status: approve
Streamlining IA-Focusing on Project-specific Issues and IA-derived Outcomes
Abstract ID# 97
Presenting Author: Steve Bonnell
Preferred Session: Streamlining Environmental Assessments to Enable Transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation will highlight approaches to streamlining IAs by allowing them to focus on environmental issues that are project-specific, and outcomes that are truly “IA-derived”.
Acceptance Status: approve
Strengthening EIA in the Pacific Through Practitioner Registration
Abstract ID# 196
Presenting Author: Puta Tofinga | Coauthor(s): Ivan Diarra
Preferred Session: Certification and Accreditation in SIA: Opportunities & Challenges
Summary Statement: SPREP assists Pacific nations to establish EIA consultant registration systems, building capacity and sharing expertise to enhance quality, and governance of impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
STRENGTHENING SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOLS TO FACILITATE JUST TRANSFORMAT
Abstract ID# 169
Presenting Author: TPr Herlina Ab Aziz
Preferred Session: Exploring the Limitations of SIA in Achieving Sustainable Development
Summary Statement: In Malaysia, development pressure demands greater innovation in the implementation of the SIA to overcome data limitations, equitable impact assessment, and the diverse and conflicting stakeholder int
Acceptance Status: approve
Stress-testing the metric for Biodiversity Net Gain in England
Abstract ID# 180
Presenting Author: Natalie Duffus | Coauthor(s): Owen Lewis , Sophus zu Ermgassen , Richard Grenyer
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: We present an analysis into the relationship between metric scoring under Biodiversity Net Gain in England and invertebrate communities using DNA metabarcoding.
Acceptance Status: approve
Striking a Balance between Conservation and Development. Does ESIA matter
Abstract ID# 57
Presenting Author: Justine Namara
Preferred Session: Compliance/Enforcement for Transformative ESIA Project Impact Management
Summary Statement: It is usually difficult to strike a balance between conservation and development especially for a developing country like Uganda but with ESIA as a tool this may be possible.
Acceptance Status: approve
Submerged Historic Properties in Alaska: Database Development and Modeling
Abstract ID# 652
Presenting Author: William Sassorossi | Coauthor(s): Chris Polglase
Preferred Session: Underwater Cultural Heritage: Developing Approaches and Improving Data
Summary Statement: Database development of historically significant cultural resources in the state of Alaska for effective project planning and a management tool for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Acceptance Status: approve
SUCCESSFUL ESIA COMPLIANCE – DETAILING E&S MEASURES FROM BID TO COMPLETION
Abstract ID# 680
Presenting Author: David Green
Preferred Session: Post-ESIA Contractor Management and Value Creation: What Drives Success?
Summary Statement: DRIVING SUCCESS WITH CONTRACTOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ESIA RECOMMENDATIONS BY PRECISE ATTENTION TO E&S REQUIREMENTS IN TENDER, BID, NEGOTIATION, MOBILISATION, PRECONSTRUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATION
Acceptance Status: approve
Sun Gods and Solar Panels
Abstract ID# 672
Presenting Author: Esha Meher
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: I argue that it is socio-cultural factors and customary practices that determine the success of an intervention in any indigenous community.
Acceptance Status: approve
Supply chain due diligence: lessons from DFIs in renewable energies
Abstract ID# 228
Presenting Author: Mariana Ruiz Alvarado
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: The green transition requires investments in renewables and clean vehicles. We will discuss DFIs experiences from supply due diligence of clean technologies.
Acceptance Status: approve
Supporting The Transition Towards A Holistic Assessment Of Cultural Rights
Abstract ID# 379
Presenting Author: Angel Ransom
Preferred Session: Supporting the transition towards a holistic assessment of cultural rights
Summary Statement: The FNMPC's Cultural Impact and Restitution Toolkit is an innovative and adaptable tool for assessing impacts and cumulative effects on Indigenous cultural rights in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Sustainability and regional assessment in next generation impact assessment
Abstract ID# 261
Presenting Author: Robert Gibson
Preferred Session: From the top down: Are regional assessments the key to sustainability?
Summary Statement: The presentation considers the core rationale for and barriers to sustainability-based next generation regional assessments, drawing from recent Canadian experience.
Acceptance Status: approve
Sustainable Energy Transitions - managing trade-offs with strategic IA
Abstract ID# 361
Presenting Author: Gesa Geißer | Coauthor(s): Juliane Biehl , Johann Köppel
Preferred Session: Impact assessment: enabling or constraining sustainable energy transitions?
Summary Statement: The contribution offers insights into new opportunities for SEA in renewable energy development in a European context focussing on the potentials for addressing trade-offs.
Acceptance Status: approve
Sustainable finance taxonomies and IA tools - overall linkages and opportun
Abstract ID# 61
Presenting Author: Jiri Dusik
Preferred Session: Sustainable Finance and Impact Assessment in the EU
Summary Statement: The paper will examine interlinkages between the emergent sustainable finance taxonomies and current impact assessment regimes and opportunities for their potential coordination.
Acceptance Status: approve
SWIA of Wind Energy in La Guajira, Colombia: Scoping Phase Analysis
Abstract ID# 333
Presenting Author: Viviana Arango | Coauthor(s): Valentina Rincon
Preferred Session: Human Rights Impact Assessment for a Just Transition
Summary Statement: This session provides a methodological discussion for conducting a SWIA in La Guajira, Colombia, aiming to assess the potential impacts of the wind energy sector on rights.
Acceptance Status: approve
Synergies of Blue Economy and Circular Economy for IA in Tourism Sector
Abstract ID# 469
Presenting Author: Wilailuk Niyommaneerat
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: This research explores the synergies between the Blue Economy and Circular Economy in the context of the tourism sector. It emphasizes the significance of impact assessments
Acceptance Status: approve
Systems thinking and the transformative potential of Nature based solutions
Abstract ID# 615
Presenting Author: Magretha Pierce | Coauthor(s): Eija Searle
Preferred Session: Towards a Just Transition for Biodiversity Offsets
Summary Statement: Nature based solutions demonstrate great potential for mitigating impacts and promoting biodiversity. Transformative potential of these tools combined with the use of systems thinking is explored.
Acceptance Status: approve
Taken At The Flood: Submerged Pasts and Green Futures
Abstract ID# 495
Presenting Author: Andrew Fraser | Coauthor(s): James Walker , Vincent Gaffney
Preferred Session: Underwater Cultural Heritage: Developing Approaches and Improving Data
Summary Statement: A new collaboration between green energy developers and archaeologists offers a dynamic opportunity to investigate the prehistoric cultural heritage beneath the southern North Sea.
Acceptance Status: approve
Target Network 2040 – Thematic Broad IA for Long-term Planning
Abstract ID# 124
Presenting Author: Marielis Fischer
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The paper shows the evaluation process of the target network as an example of how a thematically broad evaluation can take place at the strategic level for an abstract infrastructure program.
Acceptance Status: approve
Targeting Net Gain in biodiversity conservation benefit in Tourism Projects
Abstract ID# 706
Presenting Author: Damian Smith | Coauthor(s): Mia Fant , Judy Salamah , Lutfiah Hammad
Preferred Session: Pathways to biodiversity gain
Summary Statement: An integrated ESIA and NCA framework for planning, implementing and measuring how to achieve Net Gain in biodiversity conservation benefits in tourism projects
Acceptance Status: approve
Teachers’ as gatekeepers or facilitators for transforming EA practice
Abstract ID# 389
Presenting Author: Mari Kågström | Coauthor(s): Charlotta Faith-Ell
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: How academic teachers construct the purpose of EA and the students’ future roles as junior EA professionals, guide whether and how insights from research are used for improving practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
Teaching Impact Assessment for Wicked Problems – a Transdisciplinary Case
Abstract ID# 547
Presenting Author: Julia Neugebauer | Coauthor(s): Johann Köppel , Gesa Geißler
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: We present an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary IA university course emphasizing relevance of training for complex challenges & wicked problems using the case of nuclear waste management.
Acceptance Status: approve
Teaching SEA in a country without regulation: challenging this scenario?
Abstract ID# 81
Presenting Author: Amarilis Gallardo
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: A pioneer experience in teaching SEA in a country without regulation brings an analysis of the good practices and reinforces the role of education in prompting Brazilian SEA practice
Acceptance Status: approve
Team Gooze: Indigenous Response to Gendered Violence & Industrial Activity
Abstract ID# 122
Presenting Author: Betty Patrick | Coauthor(s): Ginger Gibson MacDonald , Verna Power
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: In 2019, Lake Babine Nation implemented an Indigenous-led response team, Team Gooze, which is a model of Indigenous-led responses to gendered violence associated with industrial activity.
Acceptance Status: approve
Technical and political mechanisms of Anishinaabe Law implementation in IA
Abstract ID# 432
Presenting Author: Lucas King
Preferred Session: Anishinaabe Law: Harmonization & the Role of UNDRIP
Summary Statement: The presentation will explore the benefits, mechanisms and implications of harmonization of knowledge systems and how the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 works together as 28 First Nations to exercise
Acceptance Status: approve
TFN Impact Assessment Framework: A Values-Centered Approach
Abstract ID# 236
Presenting Author: Kim Walters | Coauthor(s): Sheila Williams
Preferred Session: Meaningful Impact Assessments Through Indigenous Leadership
Summary Statement: Discover the Tsawwassen First Nation Impact Assessment Framework, a values-centered approach fostering informed decision-making, transparency, and collaboration for impact assessments in TFN Territory
Acceptance Status: approve
The advantages/benefits of using the World Café approach for a HIA baseline
Abstract ID# 568
Presenting Author: Wayne Renkin
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: This paper explores the use of the World Café approach as a method for health baseline data development for a Health Impact Assessment process
Acceptance Status: approve
The conceptual dispersion of impact significance
Abstract ID# 628
Presenting Author: Marcelo Montano | Coauthor(s): Lidia Naomy Vieira Shibayama
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: The conceptual dispersion of impact significance may be a burden to IA teaching and research, and IA community is called to put more efforts the build a more accurate conceptual framework.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Economic and Social Struggle of PAPs in Integrating into New Settlement
Abstract ID# 75
Presenting Author: Irene Yeboah | Coauthor(s): Beryl Adormaa Buanya , Antoinette Salmata Gabby Hayes
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: The paper as a case study examines how people’s livelihoods have rebounded to their new way of life after being adversely impacted by a Transport Sector Improvement Project in Ghana
Acceptance Status: approve
The effectiveness of USAID's Sub project Environmental Review
Abstract ID# 27
Presenting Author: Henry Aryeetey | Coauthor(s): N/A
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Environmental Screening forms are successfully used in USAID to manage West Africa Trade and Investment sub grants for their significant adverse impacts in project implementation
Acceptance Status: approve
The ESIA Systems and Human Rights in the Petroleum activities in Somalia
Abstract ID# 95
Presenting Author: Emmanuel Kasimbazi
Preferred Session: Ensuring Just Transformation of Infrastructure Projects
Summary Statement: Evaluating the effectiveness of the ESIA system in implementing the right to a clean and healthy environment in the emerging offshore petroleum activities in Somalia
Acceptance Status: approve
The essential elements of meaningful public participation in IA
Abstract ID# 240
Presenting Author: John Sinclair | Coauthor(s): Tanya Burdett
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: In this presentation we establish and detail a package of foundational, essential and contextual elements that could help us to achieve more meaningful public participation in IA.
Acceptance Status: approve
The evolution of Impact Assessments in Mexico
Abstract ID# 373
Presenting Author: Armando Garcia Chiang
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: An overview is presented on the evolution of social impact assessments, and the transformation of environmental studies in the mexican energy sector.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Fiscal Responsibility Act's Substantive NEPA Amendments
Abstract ID# 421
Presenting Author: Edward Boling
Preferred Session: Transforming the Future of NEPA: Recent U.S. Congressional Action
Summary Statement: This oral presentation provides a summary of the key National Environmental Policy Act amendments that President Biden signed into law with the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) of 2023.
Acceptance Status: approve
THE FUTURE OF THE IA PROFESSION: TRANSITION OR TRANSFORMATION?
Abstract ID# 185
Presenting Author: Juliette Callaghan
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: as above
Acceptance Status: approve
The Global Supply Chain Drivers of Environmental Impacts of Lithium Mining
Abstract ID# 137
Presenting Author: Stefan Giljum | Coauthor(s): Xin Sun , Victor Maus , Anna Schomberg
Preferred Session: Addressing mining impacts driven by an energy transition for climate action
Summary Statement: This presentation features a global assessment of lithium mining impacts on land, water and climate and traces these impacts along global supply chains to final consumers of lithium products
Acceptance Status: approve
The impact of hard structures to mitigate coastal erosion in protected area
Abstract ID# 584
Presenting Author: Jihyun Kang | Coauthor(s): Changwan Seo
Preferred Session: Just Transition and Transformation of the Coast and Maritime
Summary Statement: Due to the influence of coastal erosion mitigation structures proposed in the EIA, the amount of sand increased in the protected area, however erosion was confirmed at the breakwater end.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Impact of Integrated Impact Assessment on Urban Planning: Korean cases
Abstract ID# 470
Presenting Author: Yeonju Kim | Coauthor(s): Juchul Jung , SeonGyeong Lee , Hyunsuk Shin , Gyoungjun Ha
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: The problem of the Korean Land Planning evaluation and SEIA is continuous. Therefore, in this study presents the direction of sustainable urban planning through a case comparison comparison.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Impact of Mining on Women’s agency: the role of Local Content Policies
Abstract ID# 697
Presenting Author: Djeynaba Ba
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: My research focuses on the socioeconomic/ gendered impacts of mining in west Africa with a particular emphasis on the role of local content policies.
Acceptance Status: approve
The importance of health determinants in health impact assessment and SEA
Abstract ID# 356
Presenting Author: Diogo Chevalier | Coauthor(s): Victor Barbosa
Preferred Session: Consideration of wider health determinants in impact assessments
Summary Statement: HD are the key factor that can be correlated with health indicators, much cheaper and easier to obtain and should be established into basic SEA framework, a case analysis is presented for LA.
Acceptance Status: approve
The importance of training the new IA champions
Abstract ID# 263
Presenting Author: Elsa João
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: Important to train professionals that will use EIA as a pro-active design tool for projects and that leads IA to contribute to the enhancement of environmental, social and health issues.
Acceptance Status: approve
The institutionalization of sustainability assessment
Abstract ID# 429
Presenting Author: David Talbot
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The results of this study highlighted significant shortcomings in evaluation processes, as well as four neutralization techniques used to justify the non-consideration of sustainable development issue
Acceptance Status: approve
The Journey to Australia and New Zealand’s first SIA certification
Abstract ID# 481
Presenting Author: Alex Blood | Coauthor(s): Paul Corrigan
Preferred Session: Certification and Accreditation in SIA: Opportunities & Challenges
Summary Statement: A discussion of the drivers for the first SIA certification to be developed by the Certified environmental practitioner program (CENvP) for Australia and New Zealand and requirements.
Acceptance Status: approve
The livelihood impacts of dam displacement and resettlement in Kenya
Abstract ID# 320
Presenting Author: Alexander Otwori Nyagetia | Coauthor(s): Prof. Shi Guoqing Guoqing
Preferred Session: Economic Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: There are serious demands across the global on various development-induced displacement projects and human development which aims to improve the livelihood of people by giving them quality life.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Nature Positive Journey for Business
Abstract ID# 503
Presenting Author: Thomas White | Coauthor(s): Talitha Bromwich , Hollie Booth , ; Bang, Ashley; Bennum, Leon; Bull, Joseph , ; Clark, Michael; Milner-Gulland, E.J.; Prescott, Graham & ; Starkey, Malcolm; zu Ermgassen, Sophus
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: A model outlining the broad stages through which business action could contribute to Nature Positive outcomes, and priority research questions that need addressing to facilitate this change.
Acceptance Status: approve
The need for climate impact assessments in Swedish Sápmi
Abstract ID# 452
Presenting Author: Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist | Coauthor(s): Christina Allard , Erik Kjellström
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: How can climate impact assessments for reindeer herding best be integrated into decision-making processes related to land use development in Sápmi.
Acceptance Status: approve
The nexus between SIA, the JET and Sustainable Development.
Abstract ID# 332
Presenting Author: Dr. Thandiwe Chidzungu | Coauthor(s): Dr Alex Wafer
Preferred Session: What role does IA play in a responsible exit from the fossil fuel sector?
Summary Statement: SIA might be a long-term approach to mitigating these social costs, considering the educational curriculum design inadequacies and community sustainability issues in climate-change mitigation.
Acceptance Status: approve
The performance analysis of KECO's resources circulation projects of seized
Abstract ID# 83
Presenting Author: JEONGSEOK CHOI | Coauthor(s): JAEYOUNG CHOI
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: This paper aims to present a policy case that can be used as a reference for local governments and foreign authorities by analyzing the performance of the Korea Environment Corporation's seized items
Acceptance Status: approve
The Petroleum Industry Act and Host Community Development Trust Implementat
Abstract ID# 512
Presenting Author: Boma Ariyim | Coauthor(s): Meshach Ojile
Preferred Session: Community Benefit Sharing Funds: Changemakers or appeasement?
Summary Statement: The paper reports on SPDC's experience on the PIA/HCDT Implementation; its successes and challenges and champions the process as a changemanker for host community development in the oil-bearing NDR
Acceptance Status: approve
The promise of social learning-oriented approaches to public participation
Abstract ID# 91
Presenting Author: Alan Diduck | Coauthor(s): A. John Sinclair
Preferred Session: Meaningful public participation in Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: This paper discusses the potential of using facilitated social learning as the basis for public participation to achieve meaningful involvement and improve IA outcomes.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of BNG in a Just Transformation: lessons learnt from the UK
Abstract ID# 639
Presenting Author: Olivia Guindon
Preferred Session: Transitioning to Net Gain: Effectively achieving and measuring biodiversity
Summary Statement: As Biodiversity Net Gain becomes mainstream, we consider how the UK’s approach can help shape international projects. Thought must be given to the adaptation of underlying principles and rules.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Role of Community Benefit Agreements in Achieving Just Transformations
Abstract ID# 159
Presenting Author: Thomas Gunton
Preferred Session: Benefit-sharing for a fair and just transformation.
Summary Statement: This paper assesses the role of Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs) in achieving more just distribution of project benefits and reviews best practices for designing CBAs to achieve better outcomes.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of EIA practitioners in a just transformation
Abstract ID# 490
Presenting Author: Julio Jesus
Preferred Session: The role of EIA practitioners in a just transformation
Summary Statement: Practitioners involved in EIA reports play a fundamental role in the EIA process. Discussing their role and the potential ethical conflicts could be a relevant contribution to the practice of EIA.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of environmental auditing in compliance monitoring in South Africa
Abstract ID# 646
Presenting Author: Theunis Meyer | Coauthor(s): None
Preferred Session: Compliance/Enforcement for Transformative ESIA Project Impact Management
Summary Statement: This paper evaluates how well environmental auditing in South Africa meet the Principles for EsIA Compliance and Enforcement and recommends improvements for a just transformation.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of gender-based Analysis (GBA) plus in a just transformation
Abstract ID# 369
Presenting Author: Marion Doull
Preferred Session: The Role of Governments in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: In 2019, Canada introduced consideration of GBA plus in impact assessments. This has stimulated growth in research, guidance and tools resulting in a unique opportunity to examine lessons learned.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of HIA in protecting and enhancing heritage - a case study from Al
Abstract ID# 487
Presenting Author: Rakan Alanazi
Preferred Session: The role of Impact Assessment in protecting and enhancing heritage
Summary Statement: In AlUla, Saudi Arabia, The HIA it has become a requirement in projects to make it easier for our management to take the requirements that guarantee protecting and enhancing heritage.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of IA in delivering South Australia’s Critical Minerals Strategy
Abstract ID# 195
Presenting Author: Nathan Zeman
Preferred Session: ESG and Impact Assessment for Critical Minerals in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This presentation explores how a robust IA framework is being used to support the responsible implementation of South Australia critical minerals strategy.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of SEA, CIA and EIA within the High Sea Treaty
Abstract ID# 571
Presenting Author: Juan Carlos Tejeda-González
Preferred Session: A Regional Environmental Assessment Approach to Assist Decarbonization
Summary Statement: With the new High Sea Treaty agreed in March of 2023, we examined the role of SEA and EIA with
Acceptance Status: approve
The Role of Social Impact Assessment in Shaping Community Benefit Schemes
Abstract ID# 74
Presenting Author: Andrea Kanaris
Preferred Session: Community Benefit Sharing Funds: Changemakers or appeasement?
Summary Statement: SIAs are crucial in shaping community benefit schemes for energy and resource projects. SIAs influence design and execution of community benefit schemes and are the foundation for successful outcomes.
Acceptance Status: approve
The role of the Lenders IESC for the World's Largest Green Hydrogen Plant
Abstract ID# 125
Presenting Author: Oscar Wootton
Preferred Session: Just transition informing impact assessment processes for energy transition
Summary Statement: Using the World's largest Green Hydrogen Plant as a case study, the presentation aims to investigate the strength's, weaknesses and opportunities of the Lenders IESC.
Acceptance Status: approve
The social and environmental risks of the battery storage supply chain: exp
Abstract ID# 298
Presenting Author: Andrea Pittaluga
Preferred Session: Impacts and risks of lithium and rare earth elements supply chain
Summary Statement: The social and environmental risks of the battery storage supply chain: exploring challenges and limitations.
Acceptance Status: approve
The spillover effect of natural disasters on food security in Africa
Abstract ID# 362
Presenting Author: Waounde DIOP | Coauthor(s): Cheikh Tidiane Ndour
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: This paper examines the effects of natural disasters on food security in 40 sub-Saharan African countries. The results reveal that overall natural disasters reduce dependence on cereal imports.
Acceptance Status: approve
THE STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR CENTRAL NAMIB URANIUM RUSH, NAMI
Abstract ID# 205
Presenting Author: Israel M Hasheela
Preferred Session: Strategic environmental assessment in mining for a just transformation
Summary Statement: The Presentation looks at the Strategic Environmental Assessment implemented by Namibia, aimed at managing the Rush for Uranium recourses in its Central Namib area.
Acceptance Status: approve
The U.S. regulatory proposals, transforming the future of Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 281
Presenting Author: Pam Hudson
Preferred Session: Transforming the Future of NEPA: Recent U.S. Congressional Action
Summary Statement: This presentation reviews the CEQ's NEPA Phase 2 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and considers how this action is poised to transform impact assessment in the United States.
Acceptance Status: approve
The Use of Offset Credits Under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act
Abstract ID# 237
Presenting Author: Karambir Singh
Preferred Session: Consideration of climate change in impact assessment of different countries
Summary Statement: Consider the implications of using offset credits under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act to examine the effectiveness of using offset credits to achieve emissions reduction at the project level.
Acceptance Status: approve
The value of the new SIA Framework for Action in enhancing Climate Planning
Abstract ID# 714
Presenting Author: Angelo Jonas Imperiale
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: This paper discusses the potential value of using the new Social Impact Assessment Framework for Action to enhance DRR and climate action in regional recovery and development planning.
Acceptance Status: approve
Thermal Plume Validation and Marine Spatial Planning
Abstract ID# 593
Presenting Author: Ma. Luisa Martinez
Preferred Session: Blue economy, SEA and Marine Spatial Planning
Summary Statement: Results of physical, chemical and biological monitoring of the marine environment near thermal power plants are useful in the overall spatial planning of the marine area.
Acceptance Status: approve
Three Decades of Teaching EIA at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Abstract ID# 633
Presenting Author: Berit Balfors
Preferred Session: Impact Assessment Research and Teaching in Higher Education
Summary Statement: 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of EIA teaching at KTH, Sweden. Alumni from KTH's international program apply a more holistic and integrated approach to sustainable engineering.
Acceptance Status: approve
Throwing away the template for engagement
Abstract ID# 410
Presenting Author: Alison Hood
Preferred Session: Community engagement and benefit-sharing contributions to a just transition
Summary Statement: Engagement examples on two Scottish wind farms that show actively demonstrating an understanding of local communities, and a willingness to listen and adapt to them throughout the engagement process.
Acceptance Status: approve
Tiering biodiversity from SEA to EIA
Abstract ID# 223
Presenting Author: Alan Bond | Coauthor(s): Amarilis Lucia Casteli Figueiredo Gallardo
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A just transition towards the delivery of biodiversity objectives requires them to be tiered from SEA to EIA. We deliver an analytical framework to help improve tiering of biodiversity objectives.
Acceptance Status: approve
Timor Leste-SEA in the context of a country with no national SEA regulation
Abstract ID# 162
Presenting Author: Darko Annandale | Coauthor(s): David Annandale
Preferred Session: Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Summary Statement: This presentation examines the ramifications of undertaking a SESA in the context of a country that does not have a national directive nor regulation on SEA
Acceptance Status: approve
Toquaht Nation’s Approach to Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 712
Presenting Author: Matthew Murphy | Coauthor(s): Astrid Perez Pinan
Preferred Session: Reflecting Indigenous knowledge for a Just Transformation in impact assessment
Summary Statement: This research reveals how Indigenous worldviews, values, knowledge and objectives shape the development and implementation of an Indigenous impact assessment system.
Acceptance Status: approve
Tough Standards & Soft Audits to Improve Post-ESIA Project Performance
Abstract ID# 705
Presenting Author: Patrick Hall
Preferred Session: IA and Due Diligence for sustainable transformation of large projects
Summary Statement: With $30B in annual programming, USAID looks to development partners (contractors) to meet significant project ESIA & management requirements. Understand limitations and factors for success.
Acceptance Status: approve
Towards a Just Water Transformation: The SEA Imperative
Abstract ID# 62
Presenting Author: Simone Medonos
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: SEA plays an important role in steering towards a just and sustainable transformation in water resource management, offering invaluable lessons and insights in the process.
Acceptance Status: approve
Towards a minority-sensitive cultural impact assessment in Germany
Abstract ID# 575
Presenting Author: Jenny Hagemann | Coauthor(s): Lutz Laschewski , Fabian Jacobs
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Assessing the impact of large-scale industrial projects on the autochthonous minority of the Sorbs in Lusatia (Germany) contributes to a Just Transformation of decarbonizing regions.
Acceptance Status: approve
Towards an evidence base to support Power-to-X (PtX) decision-making.
Abstract ID# 307
Presenting Author: Luanita Snyman-van der Walt | Coauthor(s): Greg Schreiner , Paul Lochner
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Power-to-X (PtX) technology development is being rapidly pursued around the world. We present an initial evidence base to support strategic and site-specific decision-making for PtX in South
Acceptance Status: approve
Towards nature-positive and climate-positive EU cooperation
Abstract ID# 301
Presenting Author: Juan Palerm | Coauthor(s): Bernard Crabbé
Preferred Session: Opportunities for int. development cooperation to go beyond 'do no significant harm'
Summary Statement: Overview of recent developments from EU development cooperation to promote nature- and climate-positive cooperation. Participants will be encouraged to discuss on innovative approaches.
Acceptance Status: approve
Towards toxic risk assessment with conflict in Ukraine
Abstract ID# 260
Presenting Author: Takehiko Murayama
Preferred Session: Disasters, Conflict and Impact Assessment: Experiences and Lessons
Summary Statement: Framework for risk assessment of toxic substances with the conflict as well as some approaches towards impact assessment
Acceptance Status: approve
Tracey Ross
Abstract ID# 400
Presenting Author: Tracey Ross
Preferred Session: The Role of Governments in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Lands Manager Haisla Nation Council Haisla, British Columba Canada
Acceptance Status: approve
Transformation of organic waste into fertilizer: a pilot project
Abstract ID# 566
Presenting Author: Amanda Noronha Moreira de Carvalho | Coauthor(s): Victor Moreira Barbosa , Aliciane Sousa , Alciene Santos , Caio Tevez
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: Scientific experiment supported by EMBRAPA carried out since 2023 in a bauxite mine and a bauxite refinery aiming transform organic waste into fertilizer for areas in rehabilitation process.
Acceptance Status: approve
Transformational Resettlement: Thriving with climate change
Abstract ID# 282
Presenting Author: Theodore E. Downing | Coauthor(s): Carmen Garcia Downing
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: Explores unanswered and unasked questions about climate change-induced resettlements. If events exceed the capacities of assessment and adaptive management, then what?
Acceptance Status: approve
Transforming practice in ESDD for the Global Biodiversity Framework
Abstract ID# 274
Presenting Author: Phil Le Gouais
Preferred Session: IA and Due Diligence for sustainable transformation of large projects
Summary Statement: Through the lens of an international finance institution, gives an overview of how the Global Biodiversity Framework may affect Environmental and Social practice for major infrastructure.
Acceptance Status: approve
Treaty Lasts Forever: Protecting Our Rights, Culture and Way of Life
Abstract ID# 693
Presenting Author: Crystal Okemow | Coauthor(s): Arnold Blackstar , Dana Martin
Preferred Session: Multi-dimensional cumulative effects assessment with Indigenous peoples
Summary Statement: Battle River IRC will share findings from a Cumulative Effects Assessment conducted with three Treaty 6 First Nations in a heavily developed landscape in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
Trust: Using systems thinking for process mapping the role of trust in IA.
Abstract ID# 190
Presenting Author: Ken Froese
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Trust is a fundamental, but often overlooked, factor in major projects, including energy transition. Process mapping using systems-thinking helps us evaluate the role of trust in IA of major projects.
Acceptance Status: approve
Typologies of expected and idealised futures of the EIA practice.
Abstract ID# 374
Presenting Author: Francini Van Staden | Coauthor(s): Francois Retief
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Research outcomes towards a critical understanding of the expected and idealised future of environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice with implications for practice transition in a changing world
Acceptance Status: approve
Underwater Cultural Heritage Assessments: Best Practices for New Challenges
Abstract ID# 634
Presenting Author: Amanda Evans | Coauthor(s): David Ball
Preferred Session: Underwater Cultural Heritage: Developing Approaches and Improving Data
Summary Statement: This paper will identify regulatory and traditional knowledge gaps in impact assessments for underwater cultural heritage, and provide examples of updated best practices.
Acceptance Status: approve
Universalization of sanitation versus environmental licensing and IA
Abstract ID# 239
Presenting Author: Mariana Rodrigues Ribeiro dos Santos | Coauthor(s): Gabriel Diniz Lima
Preferred Session: Linking Urban Health and SDGs through Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Although the universalization of sanitation is an urgency, with emphasis on access to water, environmental licensing and impact assessment reports cannot be ignored.
Acceptance Status: approve
Unlock Impact Finance for Clean Cooking
Abstract ID# 193
Presenting Author: Yabei Zhang | Coauthor(s): Zijun Li
Preferred Session: Clean cooking solutions for a safe, clean, and healthy environment
Summary Statement: Carbon finance is gaining ground to pay for the climate impact of clean cooking. This study builds field experience and evidence to unlock impact finance for additional co-benefits.
Acceptance Status: approve
Unpacking GBA+ - Experience from Canada
Abstract ID# 131
Presenting Author: Anna Johnston
Preferred Session: Gender in Impact Assessment: Work from Canada and Africa
Summary Statement: What is GBA+ and why does it matter? This paper helps practitioners and communities better understand GBA+, why it is important, and best practice tips for incorporating it into EIA.
Acceptance Status: approve
US Department of Energy’s Community Benefit Plans & Carbon Management
Abstract ID# 358
Presenting Author: Kelli Roemer
Preferred Session: Community Benefit Sharing Funds: Changemakers or appeasement?
Summary Statement: An overview of the US Department of Energy's Community Benefit Plans framework application to carbon management deployment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Using a buffer-based approach to make global assessments on mining impacts
Abstract ID# 21
Presenting Author: Chloe Dawson
Preferred Session: Addressing mining impacts driven by an energy transition for climate action
Summary Statement: Discordances between mining sector datasets: Using buffers to enable global-scale assessments of future environmental impacts of growing demand for energy transition minerals.
Acceptance Status: approve
Using a RSEA to build a more sustainable future in northern Canada
Abstract ID# 699
Presenting Author: Mark Cliffe-Phillips | Coauthor(s): Brett Wheler , Kim Pawley
Preferred Session: Regional cumulative effects assessment to support a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: A collaborative regional strategic environmental assessment of the Slave Geological Province in Canada’s North is being used to develop a common vision for a sustainable future for the area.
Acceptance Status: approve
Using AI for review of automated, remote wildlife camera data
Abstract ID# 690
Presenting Author: Dennis Thideman
Preferred Session: AI supported transformation of collecting & processing biodiversity data
Summary Statement: New opportunities for using AI in processing and analyzing arise often, yet effectively using, verifying, and ultimately integrating these techniques into effective workflows takes time and diligence.
Acceptance Status: approve
Using IA and HRDD to redefine ‘safe management of tailings facilities’
Abstract ID# 348
Presenting Author: Susan Joyce
Preferred Session: ESG and Impact Assessment for Critical Minerals in a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: SIA and HRDD can contribute to better and more just outcomes as mining of critical minerals expands if it is effectively integrated into operational decision-making such as through GISTM compliance.
Acceptance Status: approve
Using SEAs to include coal power stations earmarked for decommissioning
Abstract ID# 726
Presenting Author: Abulele Adams | Coauthor(s): Paul Lochner
Preferred Session: Strategic Environmental Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The Renewable Energy Development Zones Strategic Environmental Assessment for wind and solar to include coal power stations earmarked for decommissioning as part of South Africa’s Energy Transition
Acceptance Status: approve
Vale's Social Ambition Commitments to Indigenous Peoples
Abstract ID# 538
Presenting Author: Luana Andrade
Preferred Session: Partnerships in Impact Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Vale’s Social Ambition: general objectives and their implementation strategy
Acceptance Status: approve
Valuation and Compensation under World Bank Projects in Georgia and Armenia
Abstract ID# 100
Presenting Author: David Jijelava | Coauthor(s): Sonya Msryan
Preferred Session: Fair compensation for just transformation
Summary Statement: The paper explores challenges in valuation and compensation practices in Georgia and Armenia, particularly in relation to the Environmental and Social Standard 5 of the World Bank.
Acceptance Status: approve
View from academia
Abstract ID# 126
Presenting Author: Bridget Durning
Preferred Session: The future of the IA Profession: Transition or Transformation?
Summary Statement: At Oxford Brookes University, we recently revamped our MSc in Environmental Impact Assessment and Management to respond to the changing needs of practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
We Can Combat Climate Change and the Biodiversity Crisis Simultaneously
Abstract ID# 398
Presenting Author: Heather Lafferty
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: Renewable energy projects should consider the ecological benefits, as well as the climatic benefits, of enhancing and restoring the ecosystems surrounding our assets.
Acceptance Status: approve
We Lived This Way Before: Clean energy leadership in Tobique First Nation
Abstract ID# 630
Presenting Author: Tanna Pirie-Wilson | Coauthor(s): Chad Walker , Diana Lewis
Preferred Session: Benefit-sharing for a fair and just transformation.
Summary Statement: Indigenous leadership in renewable energy is on the rise. Tobique First Nation's ownership in wind energy showcases this progress. Here we discuss our study centred around this success.
Acceptance Status: approve
WEEFARMIRTT for Tragedy of the Commons Watersheds Restoration in Ghana
Abstract ID# 654
Presenting Author: Emmanuel Amamoo-Otchere
Preferred Session: Climate, Energy and Agriculture/Forestry linkages
Summary Statement: The JuWSCA process is an all-inclusive watershed security coalition approach to restoring ecological dislocation with the grand nexus WEFFAMIRTT for the green economy
Acceptance Status: approve
What a Groundbreaking Legal Victory Means for Regional Assessment in Canada
Abstract ID# 255
Presenting Author: Martin Olszynski
Preferred Session: From the top down: Are regional assessments the key to sustainability?
Summary Statement: This talk will consider how a recent, ground-breaking legal victory in BC, Canada illustrates the importance of regional assessments to guide sustainable land use
Acceptance Status: approve
What can issues in operationalising FPIC tell us about fair compensation.
Abstract ID# 682
Presenting Author: Julia Sztucka
Preferred Session: Fair compensation for just transformation
Summary Statement: Socioeconomic exclusion, lack of listening, colonial structures and unresolved land claims are just a few examples of obstacles to fair compensation, as learned from Indigenous experiences in Canada.
Acceptance Status: approve
What circular economy can learn from impact assessment and vice versa
Abstract ID# 516
Presenting Author: Ralf Aschemann
Preferred Session: Synergies of impact assessment and circular economy
Summary Statement: This paper provides theoretical insights of mutual learning potentials between impact assessment and circular economy as well as relevant case studies from different sectors and countries.
Acceptance Status: approve
What if carbon markets were accessible to everyone?
Abstract ID# 611
Presenting Author: Frederico Viana
Preferred Session: Environmentally, Socially and Economically Just Carbon Neutrality
Summary Statement: The work on screen aimed to present the report of an experiment carried out during the congress of the Brazilian Association of Sanitary Engineering (ABES), for the commercialization of carbon credits
Acceptance Status: approve
What is the role of intangible and spiritual values in a just transition?
Abstract ID# 280
Presenting Author: Ahmed Sanda | Coauthor(s): Angeles Mendoza Sammet
Preferred Session: Remember the intangibles and spiritual values for a just transition
Summary Statement: A just transition must consider the specific cultural and local contexts, which are shaped by specific intangible and spiritual values. Negative effects on these values may remove the just from any tr
Acceptance Status: approve
What works? Effective measures from Swedish development cooperation
Abstract ID# 117
Presenting Author: Lisa Åhrgren | Coauthor(s): Erik Wallin , Gunilla Ölund Wingqvist
Preferred Session: Opportunities for int. development cooperation to go beyond 'do no significant harm'
Summary Statement: Lessons from Sida and their development partners’ systematic implementation of measures for enhanced environmental integration to go beyond do-no-harm.
Acceptance Status: approve
What’s new and what’s missing: China’s new regulation of investment project
Abstract ID# 207
Presenting Author: Gang Wang | Coauthor(s): Chen Chen , Yaqi Cao
Preferred Session: Impact assessment and adaptive management for climate change
Summary Statement: China’s new regulation of investment projects have both achievements and shortage, which might influence the ineffectiveness of impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Who tells the story in SIA?
Abstract ID# 552
Presenting Author: Gwendolyn Wellmann
Preferred Session: Decolonising SIA through the attitudes and beliefs of practitioners
Summary Statement: Three different social impact assessments conducted for resettlement purposes in South Africa are examined to highlight how decolonising the SIA processes can improve the outcomes.
Acceptance Status: approve
Why co-drafting guidelines to support HIA implementation in Georgia ?
Abstract ID# 435
Presenting Author: Anne ROUE LE GALL | Coauthor(s): Guilhem Dardier , Benoit Van Gastel , Michèle Legeas , Antoine Pogorzelski
Preferred Session: Consideration of wider health determinants in impact assessments
Summary Statement: Based on a holistic approach to health determinants and social justice, an EU project co-developed guidelines to better integrate health in environmental assessment in Georgia.
Acceptance Status: approve
Why don’t we ask? Local knowledge and tradition in Great Apes Survey.
Abstract ID# 149
Presenting Author: Silvia La Gala
Preferred Session: Large infrastructures, just transition, and community health and safety
Summary Statement: In combination with traditional surveys, we use interviews with local people to preserve Great Apes populations and enhance the best strategies to minimize the human-wildlife conflicts.
Acceptance Status: approve
Why Fairness Requires a Process & an Outcome
Abstract ID# 688
Presenting Author: Katherine Teh
Preferred Session: Equity, justice, and the energy transformation
Summary Statement: Fairness is a key enabler of social licence and yet it’s not being addressed at the level required. Learn how to.
Acceptance Status: approve
Wicked Valuation Problems in Impact Assessment
Abstract ID# 721
Presenting Author: Michael McDermott
Preferred Session: Methods for handling complexity in Just Transformation
Summary Statement: Engaging with recent interdisciplinary research to address wicked problems arising from the impacts of clashes between differing psycho-social valuations.
Acceptance Status: approve
Widening the scope of walking policies through impact assessment to tackle
Abstract ID# 244
Presenting Author: Maxime Petit Jean
Preferred Session: Linking Urban Health and SDGs through Impact Assessment
Summary Statement: Our paper shows how an impact assessment on a regional walking policy can support climate justice in urban environment, through issues such as climate adaptation, health and economic activity.
Acceptance Status: approve
Winging it with Wind Farms: Bird Flyways in Mpumalanga, South Africa
Abstract ID# 453
Presenting Author: Robyn Luyt | Coauthor(s): Mervyn Lötter , Gavin Cowden , Pamella Ntuli
Preferred Session: How to Conserve Biodiversity in Climate Change Mitigation Projects
Summary Statement: We need urgent strategic interventions to assess the potential environmental impacts of wind farms on biodiversity, in particular red data bird species, along the Mpumalanga escarpment.
Acceptance Status: approve
Wolfhart Pohl
Abstract ID# 110
Presenting Author: Wolfhart Pohl
Preferred Session: Using Social Impact Assessments as a Policy Tool to Guide Just Transition
Summary Statement: Wolfhart (Wolf) Pohl, The World Bank, Lead Specialist for Environment and Geosciences, based n Vienna, Austria,
Acceptance Status: approve
Working Towards Consensus and Consent in the Environmental Assessment Act
Abstract ID# 43
Presenting Author: Katherine St James | Coauthor(s): Kourtney Bradley
Preferred Session: Partnerships in Impact Assessment for a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: The experience from the perspective of proponent, Indigenous nation, and regulator of the process of seeking consensus and consent under the BC Environmental Assessment Act are explored.
Acceptance Status: approve
Your EIA report online; easy, attractive and in minutes!
Abstract ID# 89
Presenting Author: Paul Eijssen | Coauthor(s): Tom Moekotte
Preferred Session: The power of communication!
Summary Statement: Digital techniques can make complex information more accessible to a wider audience. Is it difficult to do? No, certainly not, in a demo we show how quickly this can be done and how easy it is.
Acceptance Status: approve
‘This Other Eden’ – assessing a myth?
Abstract ID# 462
Presenting Author: John Mabbitt
Preferred Session: The role of Impact Assessment in protecting and enhancing heritage
Summary Statement: This paper explores how mythical understandings of the past can hamper heritage protection and how heritage impact assessment can help address wider environmental issues.
Acceptance Status: approve
Ørsted's approach to delivering biodiversity net positive renewable energy
Abstract ID# 460
Presenting Author: Samir Whitaker | Coauthor(s): Tommy Kristoffersen
Preferred Session: Nature Positive outcomes through a Just Transformation
Summary Statement: This session will present Ørsted's framework for measuring Net Positive Impact.
Acceptance Status: approve