Summer School
Summer School on Methods and Tools for Impact Assessment
16-20 June 2008, Berlin
EPOS hosted a five-day summer school on Methods and Tools for Impact Assessment from 16 to 20 June 2008 in Berlin-Schmöckwitz.
Impact Assessments play an increasingly important role in national and European policy-making, and there is an overwhelming variety of procedures, methods and tools. The EPOS summer school on methods and tools for impact assessment provided a training opportunity for young researchers and practitioners to improve both their knowledge about different approaches and their skills in carrying out impact assessments.
We thank all speakers and participants for their contributions to the success of the seminar!
All summer school material including the programme, presentations and preparatory reading articles, are available for download below.
Summer school programme:
Programme [pdf, 109 KB, English]
Speakers, trainers and presentations:
Introduction: types of Impact Assessments, tool overview: Dr. Arthur Petersen, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, presentation [pdf, 4.161 KB, English]
Sustainability Impact Assessments of agreements: Clive George, University of Manchester, presentation [pdf, 815 KB, English]
Stakeholder integration, participatory methods and tools in SIA: Clive George, University of Manchester, presentation [pdf, 82 KB, English]
Group model building/cognitive mapping: Sophie Rotter& Dr. Dagmar Ridder, Seecon
Integrated sustainability assessment / Case Study from MATISSE project: Dr. Jill Jäger, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, presentation [pdf, 1.243 KB, English]
Multi-Criteria Analysis: Dr. Martin Drechsler, Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig, presentation [pdf, 624 KB, English]
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Benjamin Görlach, German Federal Environmet Agency, presentation [pdf, 2.311 KB, English] , presentation 2 [pdf, 2.902 KB, English]
European Commission Impact Assessments: Dr. Anne Meuwese, University of Antwerp, presentation [pdf, 146 KB, English], presentation 2 [pdf, 89 KB, English], presentation 3 [pdf, 97 KB, English]
Reading material:
Introduction: types of Impact Assessments, tool overview (Arthur Petersen):
A framework for tool selection and use in integrated assessment for sustainable development [pdf, 209 KB, English]
Sustainability Impact Assessments of trade agreements (Clive George):
Sustainability Impact Assessment of World Trade Negotiations: Current Practice and Lessons for Further Development [pdf, 495 KB, English]
Further material is available on:
European Commission, Directorate General (DG) Trade
North American Commission for Environmental Co-operation
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada
United Nations Environment Programme, Economics and Trade Branch
Impact Assessment Research Centre, University of Manchester
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
Stakeholder integration, participatory methods and tools in SIA (Clive George):
Priority 1
Quantification and participatory methods [doc, 298 KB, English]
UNECE Aarhus Convention [pdf, 50 KB, English]
Priority 2
EC Communication on Consultation by the Commission [pdf, English]
EC Communication on Impact Assessment [pdf, English]
Priority 3
UNECE Aarhus Convention implementation guide [pdf, 1.71 MB, English]
Group model building/cognitive mapping (Sophie Rotter & Dagmar Ridder):
A Guide to Group Model Building [pdf, 1.3 MB, English]
Integrated Sustainability Assessment (Dr. Jill Jäger):
MATISSE project and brochure
Multi-criteria analysis (Dr. Martin Drechsler):
Deliberative multicriteria evaluation [pdf, 296 KB, English]Multicriteria analysis under uncertainty with IANUS - method and empirical results [pdf, 476 KB, English]
Using multicriteria decision analysis and a forest growth model to assess impacts of tree harvesting in Dipterocarp lowland rain forests [pdf, 609 KB, English]
Model-based conservation decision aiding in the presence of goal conflicts and uncertainty [pdf, 150 KB, English]
An ecological-economic modelling procedure to design compensation payments for the efficient spatio-temporal allocation of species protection measures [pdf, 244 KB, English]
European Commission Impact Assessments (Benjamin Görlach):
Priority 1
Impact analysis of environmental policy [pdf, 107 KB, English]
Economics and environmental decision-making [pdf, 63 KB, English]
Environmental Valuation – To Use or Not to Use? [pdf, 121 KB, English]
Priority 2
Environmental value transfer: state of the art and future prospects [pdf, 119 KB, English]
Empirical analysis and administrative law [pdf, 244 KB, English]
Limits to CBA in UK and European Environmental Policy: Retrospects & Future Prospects [pdf, 183 KB, English]
European Commission Impact Assessments (Dr. Anne Meuwese):
Priority 1
Improving the Practice of Impact Assessment [pdf, 399 KB, English] Second strategic review of Better Regulation in the European Union [pdf, 169 KB, English]
Priority 2
Guide to Impact Assessment in the European Union [pdf, 1.3 MB, English] Impact Assessment Guidelines [pdf, 942 KB, English] Annexes to Impact Assessment Guidelines [pdf, 427 KB, English] Evaluation of the Commission's Impact Assessment System [pdf, 152 KB, English]Location: The summer school took place at Akademie Schmöckwitz near Berlin. The venue offers comfortable facilities in a pleasant environment close to lakes, parks and forests. Please click here for directions.
