School of Environmental Health, Suranaree University of Technology, 111 University Avenue, Maung District, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; Unit for Environmental Sciences, Management School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North West University, Potchefstroom campus, Internal Box 375, South Africa
Chanchitpricha, C., School of Environmental Health, Suranaree University of Technology, 111 University Avenue, Maung District, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand; Bond, A., School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom, Unit for Environmental Sciences, Management School of Geo and Spatial Sciences, North West University, Potchefstroom campus, Internal Box 375, South Africa
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). © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
Impact assessment tools; Logic models; Normative effectiveness; Procedural effectiveness; Substantive effectiveness; Transactive effectiveness; Environmental impact; Environmental impact assessments; environmental impact assessment; identification method; numerical model; social change; strategic environmental assessment