Integrated impact assessment environmental, social, economic, fiscal, technological, ecological

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Integrated impact assessment environmental,
social, economic, fiscal, technological,
ecological
bca ltd

• Ben Cave
• ben.cave_at_totalise.co.uk

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some questions

• does the impact assessment look at intended
  outcomes or unanticipated effects?
• how can the public be part of/involved in the
  process?

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Consultation and participation

• impact is the difference between the
  with-project condition and the no-project
  condition
• central to impact assessment people/groups/organ
  isations will not agree on the nature of the
  impacts

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the draft London Plan
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Environmental

• socio-economic
• land use planning
• visual townscape
• environmental wind
• air quality
• noise and vibration

• ecology
• contamination
• built heritage and archaeology
• hydrology and water resources
• access and movement
• waste
• cumulative and interactive effects

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact
Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999.
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Social impact assessment is

• the process of analysing and managing the
  intended and unintended consequences on the human
  environment
• of planned interventions and any social change
  processes invoked by those interventions
• so as to bring about a more sustainable and
  equitable biophysical and human environment.

quoted in Frank Vanclay (2002) Conceptualising
social impacts Environmental Impact Assessment
Review 22 (2002) 183211
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Strategic environmental assessment

• shares approaches with EA differences in scale
  and timing of study as well as degree of detail
  required
• series of development scenarios are appraised in
  terms of social and economic and environmental
  consequences
• thorough examination of stakeholder interests
  crucial to study

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Comprehensive planning and assessment system
Based on Commission of European Communities
(1990) Proposal for Directive on the
Environmental Assessment of Policies, Plans and
Projects CEC XI/194/90
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Cumulative environmental impacts
Potential effects
Compounding effects
Persistent effects
Additive
Magnification/ interaction
Multiple impacts
Synergistic relationships
Cada and Hunsacker (1990)Cumulative impacts of
hydropower development The Environmental
Professional 12 (1)
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integrated impact assessment