International Association for Impact                         Assessment Conference Materials

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The lists which follow provide materials from previous IAIA conferences and related items. Many items can be downloaded if you wish.

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2024 IAIA Conference Dublin, Ireland

Training Course given before the Conference: More Effective IA: Tools for Stronger Arguments and Clearer Writing.

2024 Training course group at Dublin

Paper presented during Conference session IA for better policy-making: Current trends and new methods: Paper and PowerPoint Careful argument can improve IA Processes are available upon request.

Conference session participants

2023 IAIA Conference Kuching, Malaysia

Training Course given before the Conference: More Effective IA: Tools for Stronger Arguments and Clearer Writing. 

Class with certificates at end of training course 2023.

Paper presented with Lachlan Wilkinson: Toward better argument for clearer communication and more effective IA, within the Workshop on Leadership Practice.

Download a copy of the paper from the conference proceedings: Brown & Wilkinson 2023. Toward better argument for clearer argument and more effective IA

Several participants of the Workshop on Leadership Practice

2022 IAIA Conference Vancouver, Canada

Training Course given before the Conference: More Effective IA: Tools for Stronger Arguments and Clearer Writing. 

Session presented at the conference by GB and colleagues

Download a copy of the PowerPoint here: Sharing steps to improve IA

View the video shared by presenter Wilkinson who could not attend the conference here:

2020/2021 IAIA Conference Sevilla, Spain

This conference was cancelled due to Covid-19 and then was presented entirely online in May 2021. The training course that would have been offered before the conference, about Tools for Stronger Argument and Clearer Writing, was offered online instead, in March and October 2022 and continues to be offered online.

A paper presented titled “Developing Capacity for Argument in Support of IA Goals and Decisions” was delivered online. You can download the PowerPoint here: IAIA 2021 Developing capacity for argument

2019 IAIA Conference Brisbane, Australia

Training Course given before the Conference: More Effective IA: Tools for Stronger Arguments and Clearer Writing. .

International representation typical of IAIA meetings: 20 people from 17 countries

Presentation given during conference Session:  Using case studies in teaching Impact Assessment                                                                                              GB’s Presentation: IA training: Challenges of follow up and use. Download PowerPoint: IA Training-Follow up and Use

2018 Conference Durban South Africa

Training Course presented before the conference Using Organized Reasoning to Improve Environmental Assessment.

 

Session: Using Organized Reasoning to Improve Impact                                          Assessment: Building Capacity                                                                                    GB Presentation: Using Organized Reasoning to Improve Impact Assessment: Building Capacity. Download PowerPoint: Using Organized Reasoning to Improve Impact Assessment: Building Capacity

Session: Impact Assessment, Decision Making, and Change:                             Six ‘Pitches’ for Six Tools for Change                                                                      GB Presentation: A Pitch for Reasoning and Argumentation. Download: Brown Pitch Reasoning & Argumentation

Session: Quality and Effectiveness of IAs                                                              GB Presentation: How Can We Improve Professional Judgment? Download:  IAIA-How-can-we-improve-judgment

2017 IAIA Conference Montreal Canada

Panel at IAIA 2017. From left to right: Jona Bjarnadottir, Lorraine Seale, Brett Wheler, Glenn Brown and Graham Seagel

Here are eight items related to the 90-minute Panel Session titled: Adding Organized Reasoning to the IA Process: Lessons Learned So Far, held at the Montreal conference.

Handout paper

1  Eight page handout for the session audience describing the main ideas from the panel presentations, including links to reports, biographies and contact information for participants. Download: Handout for Organized Reasoning Session IAIA 2017

PowerPoint presentations made during the Session, in the order presented.

2  Brown. Organized Reasoning: Goals and Process Download: Brown Presentation

3  Ehrlich and Wheler. The Jay Diamond Project Environmental Assessment: Organized Reasoning in Practice Download:  Ehrlich and Wheler Presentation

4  Seale. Organized Reasoning Training: GNWT Reflections Download: Seale Presentation

5  Bjarnadottir. Organized Reasoning: Gains So Far and Expectations for the Future Download: Bjarnadottir Presentation

Videos of Alan Ehrlich from the Mackenzie Valley Review Board discussing the organization’s experience with Organized Reasoning at a workshop held in Reykjavik for Landsvirkjun, The National Power Company of Iceland. This is the background of the Ehrlich and Wheler presentation at the panel session.

6  Video of the presentation describing the Review Board’s experience with Organized Reasoning and the Ekati Diamond Mine IA. 29 minutes. Divided in half due to file size issues. View by clicking below.

First half

Second half

7  Video of the Question and Answer period after the preceding presentation. 11 minutes. View by clicking below.

IA Report mentioned during the videos and during the Ehrlich and Wheler presentation:

8  The IA report of the Jay Project to expand the Ekati diamond mine is available from the website of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board. Download: Ekati Jay Project Report

The flowchart posted on the wall, and discussed somewhat during the session, is downloadable from the 2016 conference materials, immediately below.

2016 IAIA Conference, Aichi-Nagoya Japan

Poster presentation at IAIA 2016

This poster of a flowchart shows how Organized Reasoning can be introduced into different stages of the IA process.  We also provided a paper describing the background information and reasoning behind the poster, which is in the Proceedings of the conference. Both documents are also available from the International Association for Impact Assessment’s 2016 conference website.

1 Brown and Seagel. Poster. Adding Organized Reasoning into Impact Assessment to Support Key Decisions.    Download:   Brown & Seagel IAIA 2016 Poster

2 Brown and Seagel. Background Paper. Adding Organized Reasoning into Impact Assessment to Support Key Decisions.     Download: Brown & Seagel 2016 Paper from Proceedings

2015 IAIA Conference Florence Italy

Training Course. The course Organized Reasoning and Environmental Impact Assessment was given before the conference.

Training course participants 2015

2013 IAIA Conference Calgary Canada

A presentation made at the Calgary IAIA 2017 conference described the work Tim Hicks did for his master’s thesis. (GB was his thesis supervisor.) He studied how effectively ‘arguments,’ describing significance determinations, were reached in a government agency’s EA reports. (Result: although the data was present and the conclusions were quite reasonable, the arguments were very weakly presented.) He suggested steps for improvement. The audience handout and PowerPoints are available below, as is the original thesis upon which the presentation is based.

A Slide from the Hicks & Brown Presentation

Hicks, T. and Brown G. Exploring the Use of ‘Argument’ in Impact Assessment. Conference audience handout. Download: Hicks & Brown IAIA 2013 Handout

Hicks, T. and Brown. G. Exploring the Use of ‘Argument’ in Impact Assessment. Conference PowerPoint. Download: Hicks & Brown 2013 Argument PowerPoint.pptx

Hicks, T. Exploring the Use of Argument in Impact Assessment: A Case for Impact Significance Arguments. MA thesis. Download: Hicks 2011 Thesis Argument in Impact Assessment

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