Abstract
Piecemeal changes to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process have to date not fully delivered EIA’s normative goals and met today’s environmental challenges. By regarding the to date approaches to change-making as a problem requiring a solution, this paper applies critical analysis to reflect upon current change-making based on England’s EIA system as a case study. The analysis identifies a lack of innovative ideas and sound evidence-based approaches to inform and support the change-making process. Consequently, we argue for an epistemology of change-making (changeology) so that the entire approach can be based on an empirically informed framework, to inform the journey (process) and destination (fit-for-purpose EIA) and make the EIA process fit-for-purpose and aligned to future expectations. Changeology should be viewed as more than informing one-time change-making but as a framework of well-studied practice for changing (or improving) EIA in the long-term.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 251-266 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 3 May 2024 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 3 May 2024 |
Keywords
- Change-making
- England EIA
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- changeology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law