Science–Policy Interfaces in Impact Assessment Procedures

Impact Assessment

“…Current trends to improve future impact assessment also involve procedures which are more adaptive, deliberative, and participative (Lawrence 2013). New impulses emerge in the fields of collaborative rationality like better ways of dealing with differences in the level of knowledge and the accessibility of information among stakeholders (Bäcklund et al 2010;Morgan 2012). In the European Impact Assessment System, a collaborative generation of knowledge is already implemented in guidance documents and needs to be put into practice increasingly.…”

“…This growing plurality also makes it more likely that important aspects of sustainability will be covered. This way impact assessment can be a collaborative trajectory of participatory learning and support sustainable development (Bäcklund et al 2010).…”

The procedure for institutional compatibility assessment: ex-ante policy assessment from an institutional perspective

“…These problems become even more exaggerated when developing tools for a standardized ex-ante institutional policy analysis. Ex-ante impact assessment has become an integral and systematic part of the political decision-making processes of the European Commission, but also at the national level in European Union (EU) Member States (Bäcklund et al ., 2007). Here, the analysis of likely social, economic, and environmental impacts is increasingly complemented by an assessment of the institutional dimension (EC, 2005).…”