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Research interests

Philippe Hanna is an Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Impact Assessment at the University of Groningen, with over 20 years of experience in the field. He has worked extensively with Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, non-governmental organizations, international financial institutions, and the private sector. His expertise includes social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, and adapting projects to diverse cultural contexts in collaboration with local communities. In addition to his academic activities, he serves as an independent consultant, providing insights and solutions to complex social and cultural challenges in environmental management and development projects.

Publications

Human rights, Indigenous peoples and the concept of Free, Prior and Informed Consent

Improving the effectiveness of impact assessment pertaining to Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian environmental licensing procedure

Conceptualizing Company Response to Community Protest: Principles to Achieve a Social License to Operate

The importance of cultural aspects in impact assessment and project: developmentreflections from a case study of a hydroelectric dam in Brazil

Conceptualizing social protest and the significance of protest actions to large projects

How communities and social impacts are considered in policies for protected areas in China

New challenges and old hurdles for public participation in impact assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean

The need for ethnographic methods in impact assessment

Indigenous FPIC protocols to promote a fair and inclusive impact assessment

How could local communities regulate the assessment of the overlooked environmental and social impacts?

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