IAIA - international association for impact assessment

The International Association for Impact Assessment, IAIA, is the leading global network on best practice in the use of impact assessment for informed decision making regarding policies, programs, plans and projects. IAIA was organized in 1980 to bring together researchers, practitioners, and users of various types of impact assessment from all parts of the world. IAIA has more than 1,600 members and represent more than 120 countries. People from many disciplines and professions are involved in IAIA including corporate planners and managers, public interest advocates, government planners and administrators, private consultants and policy analysts, university and college teachers and their students. IAIA organizes special meetings and publishes reports addressing both the mitigation of climate change and adaptation to climate change. Impact Assessment (IA) has much to contribute in climate-proofing of policies, plans, programs, and projects at all scales from local to global and thus increase the resilience of natural and human systems in the face of a changing climate.