It’s time to expand the conversation.

So we’re building a Network of Expertise and Dialogue on Impact Assessment (NEDIA) that will enable us all to:

(a) foster interdisciplinary collaboration among impact assessment scholars in Canada, opening up the field to disciplines within the social sciences and humanities;

b) build an online resource space allowing anyone interested in IA, at whatever level of ‘expertise’, to access the rich and growing body of wisdom across Canada regarding what ‘impact’ means and how we should best ‘assess’ it.

(c) join in and strengthen the efforts of others to support collaborations between both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities to the NGO, government and private sector practitioners in IA.

NEDIA is made possible by through a the Partnership Development Grant funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Project title: Advancing Impact Assessment for Canada’s Socio-Ecological Systems; and from research funding from the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada

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Recent additions to SSH-related IA scholarship in Canada:

For a snapshot of recent SSHRC funded scholarship on IAs in Canada, a full list of the reports from the Knowledge Synthesis Grant program (2019-20), can be accessed here

To access the IAAC research page click here

It’s out! A recent collection of essays by Canadian scholars on the Canadian Impact Assessment Act (2019), The Next Generation of Impact Assessment, edited by John Sinclair and Meinhard Doelle. Info here . Many of the scholars involved in this project are featured in it.

A recent book on cumulative effects assessment, with several chapters on social impacts…

Two recent papers by team members feature SSH dimensions to IA directly emerging from research in this project:

Blue, Gwendolyn, Bronson, Kelly and Lajoie-O’Malley, Alana (Sept. 2021) “Beyond distribution and participation: a scoping review to advance a comprehensive environmental justice framework for impact assessment”. Environmental impact assessment and review . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106607

Stewart, Ian and Harding, Moira (Dec. 2021) “One Pipeline and Two Impact Assessments: Coproduction, Legal Pluralism and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project” Science, Technology and Human Values https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211057309 (open access)