Proposed Abstracts

A consulting practitioner’s perspective on streamlining.

Celesa Horvath brings a practitioner’s perspective to this panel exploring challenges and opportunities related to IA streamlining in the current political, economic, and regulatory context.


Community responses to project initiation and engagement in a hydro project

How projects are announced shapes community trust and engagement. The Pioneer-Burdekin Pumped Hydro case in Australia shows why transparency from the start is vital for mega projects.


Digital and Interactive EA: Ensuring data quality and and Integrity

Systematic review of AI and digital tools in Environmental Assessment: effects on data quality and trust; maps uses and risks; urges transparency, strong verification, and secure data.


Effective Communication of Technical Matters: An Air Quality Perspective

In a world of soundbites, communication of complex issues is difficult. The paper draws on practical examples from 25 years working as an air quality consultant


Human Rights and Impact Assessment

Exploring how retaliation undermines information integrity in impact assessments, this session discusses protective mechanisms, case studies, and emphasizes collaboration to ensure credible assessment



Moderating the Influence of Vested Interest on Community Based Projects

Developing a robust Framework for moderating the adverse influence of Vested Interest is certainly a pathway for propelling the success of community-based projects and development in Africa.


Renewables in Australia, how social factors shape community engagement

Understanding key social factors and the role of key stakeholders in the push for renewable energy developments in Central Queensland, Australia, and how these shape community engagement.


Retaliation and Information Integrity: Safeguarding Stakeholder Voices

Exploring how retaliation against stakeholders undermines information integrity in impact assessments, this session discusses protective mechanisms, and shares case studies


The Importance of Communicating Climate Change Costs

Building from the cost impact on a single storm sewer system, this presentation looks at the importance of experts clearly communicating the cost of climate change.


Tritium: vulnerabilities of models and public reserve

Analyzing the interpretative vulnerabilities in tritium risk models that fuel public distrust. Proposing explicable AI for transparent and defensible assessments.


Urban Form, Carbon Footprints, and Planning Support Systems

Evidence-based planning support using carbon spatial maps and ecological indicators reveals indirect urban form impacts, seasonal trade-offs, and regionally differentiated pathways to carbon neutralit