scholarly journals Making a Case for Social Impact Assessment in Urban Development: Social Impacts and Legal Disputes in Queensland, Australia

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 285-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evonne Miller ◽  
Laurie Buys
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Impact Assessment

scholarly journals Palm oil, power, and participation: The political ecology of social impact assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Delabre ◽  
Chukwumerije Okereke
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, as a form of neoliberal environmental governance operating beyond-the-state, seeks to address its democratic deficit and gain legitimacy through deliberative and consultative processes. The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil requires companies to conduct participatory social impact assessment for both new developments and existing operations in an attempt to identify and address the critical social impacts associated with palm oil production. Using a political ecology framework, and a mixed methods approach, this study explores social impact assessments as sites of power struggles, to understand the contestations, inequities, and marginalizations that occur in social impact assessment processes. By exploring the nature of social impact assessment as a market-led regime that privileges certain knowledges and politics, and is co-opted and controlled by powerful actors, the paper challenges the notion that social impact assessment can ensure the inclusion of previously marginalized people in decision-making processes. Participation in social impact assessment is found to be, at most, consultative and top-down, and risks the further disempowerment of affected peoples. By viewing social impact assessment as a discrete intervention, without a clear wider political project for social change for local peoples and workers, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil risks ‘rendering technical’ and ‘marketable’ the multifaceted social impacts associated with palm oil production as it simultaneously enacts particular global, neoliberal ‘participatory’ strategies that are applied locally in ways that (re-)produce hegemony and legitimacy.

Social Impact Assessment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Getz
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Big Picture

Social and cultural change can occur slowly, sometimes invisibly, and in many directions at once. It will usually be difficult to differentiate the changes caused or influenced by events and tourism from wider forces and trends in society. The approach taken in this chapter is to first define social impacts and social impact assessment, then examine the wide range of social impacts that could be the subjects of SIA. A series of figures presents types of social impacts that should be considered for the major subjects of IA, starting with individuals and ending with whole societies. In each of these tables there are suggested goals, methods and indicators. Specific types of social impact are expressed as goal statements, mostly benefits to achieve. The SIA process is then discussed, including methods of particular relevance to SIA for events and tourism. Special attention is given to the concept of social capital and how it can be assessed. Not only is social capital an important topic in the literature and apparently of interest to many policy makers, but exploring how to measure this concept is indicative of the challenges related to other social and cultural theories and concepts. Refer back to Chapter 3 for a parallel discussion of how to construct a theory of change model for social integration and inclusion. For related history and topical overviews, readers are encouraged to consult books that give the big picture, including Exploring the Social Impacts of Events, edited by Richards et al. (2013), and Event Studies by Getz and Page (3d. ed., 2016).

scholarly journals Adapting Social Impact Assessment to Flood Risk Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3410
Author(s):  
Pablo Aznar-Crespo ◽  
Antonio Aledo ◽  
Joaquín Melgarejo-Moreno ◽  
Arturo Vallejos-Romero
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Evolutionary Dynamics ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Recovery Processes ◽  
The Social

In the context of climate change, a significant increase in the flood risk is expected, which may lead to an intensification of the social impacts of disasters. Social impacts significantly affect the recovery processes of individuals, social groups, and institutions in the medium and long term. Hence, the management of such impacts throughout the disaster life cycle is essential. International institutions and frameworks for disaster risk reduction have claimed the need to generate tools for the systematic assessment and management of social impacts of floods. Recently, an innovative line of research has emerged aimed at adapting social impact assessment (SIA), usually directed at the evaluation of planned interventions (programs, plans and projects), to the field of environmental disasters. In order to contribute to academic efforts in this emerging field, this paper puts forward, through a systematic literature review based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) criteria, an SIA methodological proposal for the identification, assessment and systematic management of the social impacts of flood events. This methodological proposal covers the three phases of the disaster cycle: (1) pre-event (preparedness), allowing the anticipation of potential impacts and supporting the proposal of preventive measures; (2) event (response), facilitating a strategic mobilization of resources and technical support towards previously identified critical disaster areas; and (3) post-event (recovery), evaluating the evolutionary dynamics of impacts, proposing measures to avoid their socio-territorial embedding and accelerating recovery processes. This tool is designed for strategic use by policy makers and managers responsible for flood risk management and regional development.

scholarly journals Do Local Residents Support the Development of a National Park? A Study from Nanling National Park Based on Social Impact Assessment (SIA)

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1019
Author(s):  
Qian Dong ◽  
Bo Zhang ◽  
Xiaomei Cai ◽  
Alastair M. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Under Construction

Over the past five years, the pilot establishment of national parks in China has been a major event in global biodiversity conservation. The national parks under construction and proposed account for nearly 1% of the land area, and their social impacts have attracted the attention of researchers and managers. However, most of the research has a focus on the effects of protection, and national parks do not have a sufficient understanding of the social impacts and perceptions of the local residents. This research, taking Nanling National Park in Guangdong Province as the case, used the social impact assessment research framework to explore the perceptions and support of local people for the creation of national parks. Through questionnaires and in-depth interviews, the findings were first that most residents expressed a low awareness of Nanling National Park’s development, but they still expressed conditional support. Second, ethnic minorities and less educated residents did not support the creation of national parks. Perceptions of ecological, economic, political, and cultural impacts affected whether residents supported the construction of national parks. In the initial stages of national park development, governmental administrative departments should reduce the negative impacts of national park construction by strengthening the publicity and awareness building, formulating appropriate policy guidance for different needs, and giving local residents the right to express their views, so as to enhance resident support for national park projects.

scholarly journals Social Impact Assessment in Europe: A Study of Social Impacts in Three Danish Cases

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Vammen Larsen ◽  
Anne Merrild Hansen ◽  
Ivar Lyhne ◽  
Sara Bjørn Aaen ◽  
Eva Ritter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Impacts

Social impact assessment (SIA) is applied worldwide to assess social impacts of plans and projects. In Europe, directives on environmental assessment (EA) require attention to social impacts, however, there is a need to investigate the implementation in practise. To this end, we study three Danish cases, which are characterised by debates and conflicts on social issues. Analysis of the EA statements shows inclusion of a broad range of social impacts. However, the EAs do not fully match the concerns of the public, and social impacts are not always analysed in depth, mitigation measures are not suggested or are postponed and the geographical distribution of impacts assessed is biased towards including negative local impacts. We discuss the scope and handling of social impacts, and possible implications. Based on this, we conclude with the view that EA might do the job of handling social impacts in Europe, if practise is improved.

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