Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: What might nature have to say?

Authors/Creators

Annette Nykiel, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Angus Morrison-Saunders, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Abstract

What would impact assessment (IA) look like from the perspective of Nature? This paper intends to provoke a conversation about including Nature in the IA process. It is an intentional provocation to challenge the businessasusual approach driven by proponents. Using reflexivity and embedding images in the text, along with literature review from within IA and wider interdisciplinary thinking, the means for the environment to participate are explored. The paper argues for allowing Nature a voice by including the environment as a stakeholder in a more relational approach to IA.

RAS ID

60723

Document Type

Letter to the Editor

Date of Publication

2023

School

School of Science / Centre for People, Place and Planet

Copyright

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Comments

Nykiel, A., & Morrison-Saunders, A. (2023). Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: What might nature have to say?. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 41(4), 314-322.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2178172

Recommended Citation

Nykiel, A., & Morrison-Saunders, A. (2023). Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: What might nature have to say?. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2023.2178172