There is a growing interest in the use of theory in order to move the field of impact assessment forward, hereunder to … theory is uncertain. This article examines the use of explicit theory from other fields in impact assessment literature and … analyse how research uses theory along a continuum from use of non-attached theory to theory building. A sample of research …

There have been a large number of attempts to develop a theory or theories of Environmental Impact Assessment in order …-making and from one particular strand of sociological theory. In this review of the theories of EIA it is argued that an … understanding of wider sociological theory is necessary to fully understand both planning and EIA. …