STAKES' publications in the field of HuIA

Human Impact Assessment (HuIA) has been developed in STAKES since 1993. During this time STAKES has published several reports, guides, handbooks and articles in the field of human impact assessment. Several publications are also available in English:

Health Impact Assessment

• Perceived Health in Environmental Impact Assessment (pdf, 20 kb)
• Perceived Health and EIA in Finland (pdf, 40 kb)
• Ideacard 2/01: Health Impact of the Environment (pdf, 157 kb)

Social Impact Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment

• Nelimarkka K, Kauppinen T & Perttilä K (2007) A participative social impact assessment at the local level: supporting the land-use planning process in Finland. In: Wismar M, Blau J, Ernst K & Figueras J. (eds.) The Effectiveness of Health Impact Assessment. Scope and limitations of supporting decision-making in Europe.
• Social Impact Assessment: A Look into Finnish Experiences (pdf, 153 kb)
• The Social Dimension of Determining Significance (pdf, 169 kb)
• Social Impact Assessment in Transportation System Planning (pdf, 69 kb)
• Assessing Environmental Impacts - What about People (pdf, 20 kb)

Towards Human Impact Assessment

• Human Impact Assessment training material (pdf, 242 kb)
• Human Impact Assessment in the Finnish Healthy Cities Network
• Examples of HuIA in the social welfare and health care sector in Finland (pdf, 103 kb)
• Human Impact Assessment. Report on the Seminar on Human Impact Assessment (pdf, 349 kb) Helsinki-Kellokoski, Finland 24-25 Januar, 2002. Title page (pdf, 24 kb)
• Ideacard 6/07: Human Impact Assessment (pdf, 72 kb)
• Ideacard 3/01: Identification of Human Impacts (pdf, 89 kb)
• Ideacard 4/01: Visions of the Future (pdf, 355 kb)
• Ideacard 5/00 A Lift is Worth its Cost (pdf, 151 kb)
• Ideacard 1/01: Look ahead Boldly (pdf, 100 kb)
• Social Impact Assessment - a Help in Multi-sector Collaboration (pdf, 19 kb)
• The Social Bench, or the Developer's Understanding (pdf, 20 kb)
• Human Impact Assessment in Finland (pdf, 67 kb)
• HuIA - What is it? (pdf, 30 kb)
• Kauppinen, T & Nelimarkka, K (2004). A Review of Finnish Social and Health Impact Assessments. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp 1-17.
• Kauppinen T, Nelimarkka K & Perttilä K (2006) A case study of the role of health impact assessment in implementing welfare strategy at local level. In: Ståhl T et al. (eds.) (2006) Health in All Policies. Prospects and potentials. Ministry of Social Affairs and Health: Helsinki. Pages 253-266.
• Kauppinen T, Nelimarkka K & Perttilä K. (2006) The effectiveness of human impact assessment in the Finnish Healthy Cities Network. Public Health Vol. 120, pp 1033-1041.
• HuIA-Handbook: principles, guidelines, examples. Only in Finnish!