Innovation in impact assessment: a bibliometric review and a practical test.

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Costanzo, Bruno Pontes
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Effectiveness; Environmental impact assessment; Impactos ambientais (Avaliação); Innovation; Mineração; Mining; Systems; Theoretical basis
• Link de acesso: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3134/tde-07112017-145017/

A bibliometric study was carried out to identify the main innovations and shortcomings pointed out by scientific research on impact assessment (IA). Out of 1,547 articles published between 1990 and 2015 in two leading journals, IAPA and EIAR, 381 were reviewed for their contents related to new methodological approaches or proposals for improving practice. It was found that innovations and gaps are predominantly treated disregarding IA\'s theoretical basis. We suggest that IA core values shall always guide innovation. It is proposed that the theoretical boundaries of an IA System shall be previously stablished when discussing innovation. The information systematized through a bibliometric approach allowed to propose a framework that correlates IA theoretical foundations with innovation options in a vertical integration way.