IEMA Impact Assessment Guidance
IEMA has a long history of producing quality impact assessment related guides and publications. This webinar is aimed at EIA practitioners, reviewers and stakeholders of all levels, and provides an overview of all of the existing IEMA guidance available, including commentary on update cycles, new guidance, and overview of guidance working groups.
IEMA and the Impact Assessment Network have a long history of producing quality impact assessment related guides and publications for over 25 years.
The guidance and publications range from topic-specific guidance such as the GN 1 Guidelines for the environmental assessment of road traffic published in 1993 to more general guidance such as the new primer on Digital Impact Assessment in 2020.
This webinar counts for 1 hour of CPD, so don’t forget to add it to your IEMA CPD Portal. This can be accessed through your member account on iema.net.
The new Impact Assessment Strategy launched in 2019 contains four key objectives. One of the key objectives relates specifically to guidance: ‘Develop guidance and training and promote knowledge sharing and collaboration to provide practitioners with the skills and knowledge to deliver effective and proportionate IA’
This guidance webinar is aimed at EIA practitioners, reviewers and stakeholders of all levels, and aims to provide a summary and overview of all of the existing IEMA guidance available, including commentary on update cycles, new guidance, and overview of guidance working groups.
Presentations
Impact Assessment Guidance - Main Slides, R, Howard, FIEMA CEnv & L, Knapman, Waterman Infrastructure & Environment - CLICK HERE
Launch of Principles of Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment in the UK
This webinar launched the first edition of ‘Principles for Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment’, prepared jointly by IEMA, CIfA and IHBC.
This webinar was aimed at helping professionals (re)define principles and develop a framework for assessment, especially for those wanting a holistic approach to impact assessment in line with international standards.
Scotland’s EIA Conference 2021 closed the unique online event with the opportunity to refresh knowledge of key EIA case law and understand different professional perspectives on what this may mean for practice.
This third session of the online Scotland’s EIA Conference programme turned its attention to the rapid progress being made in the expanded use of digital approaches to improve the effectiveness and outcomes of the EIA process.
Scotland’s EIA Conference is a partnership event designed and coordinated between: Fothergill Training & Consulting, the Scottish Government, HES, NatureScot and SEPA with the aim of furthering the enhance of EIA practice across Scotland. This opening session of the conference focused on opportunities to advance EIA practice.
The second day of online delivery of Scotland’s EIA Conference saw three experienced presenters discuss their views on EIA’s progress in different aspects of climate change and nature enhancement goals.
This Impact Assessment Network webinar, on the interaction of Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) heard from practitioners from both specialisms on the differences and similarities between these impact assessment regimes and how greater coordination can be achieved with case studies.
