Approaches to teaching IA in Australian universities
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2013
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Clarke, B.
Middle, G.
Brown, L.
Franks, D.
Harris, E.
Kellett, J.
Morrison Sunders, A.
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IAIA13 conference proceedings: impact assessment the next generation, 2013, pp.1-6
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33rd annual meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment, IAIA 2013 (13 May 2013 - 16 May 2013 : Calgary, Canada)
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This paper makes a contribution to the dearth of information about how IA is taught, building on the special Australian symposium. A key conclusion of the symposium was that the way IA is taught varied from University to University, although there were some common key core areas and concepts covered. Whilst many universities have undergraduate and post graduate units in IA, most focus on environmental impacts assessment (EIA). There is little uniformity as to the school within which these units are taught: schools running units in IA are in Environment, Humanities, the Built Environment and Mining. Further, the background of those who teach IA varies widely from primarily academic, to strongly IA practice, and those with a mixture of both. The primary discipline or interest of those who teach in the area is similarly varied, including environmental, social, health and urban and regional planning. These findings are in keeping with the international and regional studies noted above. Finally, whilst some participants had actively sought to teach IA, some had only a loose interest in the field and had inherited an IA unit on taking up an academic post.
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