Berger, Gerald. 2008. Sustainability Impact Assessment: Definitions, Approaches and Applications in Europe. EASY-ECO Vienna Conference 2008 “Governance by Evaluation: Institutional Capacities and Learning for Sustainable Development”, Vienna, Österreich, 12.03.-14.03..

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@CONFERENCE{Berger2008,
title = {Sustainability Impact Assessment: Definitions, Approaches and Applications in Europe},
author = {Gerald Berger},
year = {2008},
address = {Vienna},
language = {EN},
misc = {EASY-ECO Vienna Conference 2008 “Governance by Evaluation: Institutional Capacities and Learning for Sustainable Development”},
abstract = {This paper focuses on sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) in Europe. Generally, impact assessments (IAs) must be seen as a tool that addresses important governance challenges, like informed (or knowledge-based) decision-making, policy integration, strategic management, transparency and stakeholder participation. The growing acceptance of sustainable development (SD) as overarching policy goal has recently stimulated much interest inmethods and tools that assess the impacts of SD policies. The paper will first provide a definition and overview of different IA approaches. Second, it will describe the integrated IA system developed and applied by the European Commission. Finally, two case studies of Switzerland and Belgium will show how SIAs are applied to national policy-making.},
}