Conceptualising the effectiveness of impact assessment processes
Abstract
This paper aims at conceptualising the effectiveness of impact assessment processes through the development
of a literature-based framework of criteria to measure impact assessment effectiveness. Four categories
of effectiveness were established: procedural, substantive, transactive and normative, each containing a
number of criteria; no studies have previously brought together all four of these categories into such a comprehensive,
criteria-based framework and undertaken systematic evaluation of practice. The criteria can be
mapped within a cycle/or cycles of evaluation, based on the ‘logic model’, at the stages of input, process, output
and outcome to enable the identification of connections between the criteria across the categories of effectiveness.
This framework is considered to have potential application in measuring the effectiveness of
many impact assessment processes, including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), environmental impact
assessment (EIA), social impact assessment (SIA) and health impact assessment (HIA).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/13836http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-impact-assessment-review/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.05.006
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