The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment: Conceptual and Methodological Advances

✍ Scribed by Henk A. Becker, Frank Vanclay

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 348
Edition: illustrated edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is the process of analyzing and managing the intended and unintended consequences on the human environment of planned interventions (policies, programs, plans, projects) so as to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human environment. This important Handbook presents an indispensable overview of the range of new methods and of the conceptual advances in SIA.

Recent increased attention to social considerations has led to substantial development in the techniques useful to, and the thinking in, SIA. A distinguished group of contributors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the cutting-edge in SIA development.

This Handbook outlines a new understanding and definition of SIA and, as such, will be an invaluable reference tool for both practitioners and scholars at different levels working in the fields of SIA and environmental studies (including both impact assessment and management).

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