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The enclosed reference list is limited to English language serialized scholarly and professional journals, retrievable government documents and bulletins as well as books and monographs with an ISBN number. Gray Literature, e.g., papers, meeting presentations and proceedings and documents with limited distribution are not included. Articles and chapters in special issues of journals and books are not cited separately if the entire issue or volume is devoted to social impact assessment. If available, I include an ISBN number and a website for ordering books and monographs. A user updated SIA bibliography may be found at www.iaia.org and is available to non-members. Click on Resources and scroll down to the SIA Bibliography.
Table of Contents:· Textbooks and Guides for Social Impact Assessment ..1 · State of the Art of Social Impact Assessment and Literature Reviews ..3 · Conceptual Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment ..4 · SIA Methodology ..5 · SIA Research Findings ..7 · Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment .11 · Social Impact Assessment Classics 12 · Referred Journals in Social Impact Assessment .13 · Professional Organizations and Associations in SIA .14 · General Publications on SIA/EIA Regulations, Content and Administrative Procedures 15 · United States, Regulations and Administrative Procedures .15 · Canadian Regulations, Content and Administrative Procedures .19 · Other Country SIA Regulations, Content and Administrative Procedures .20 · SIA Procedures for International Aid and Donor Organizations and Institutions .20
Textbooks and Guides for Social Impact Assessment
Barrow, C. J. 2000. Social Impact Assessment: An Introduction. London, Arnold. ISBN: 0 340 74218 6. Barrow, C. J. 1997. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: An Introduction. London: Arnold. ISBN: 0340662719. Becker, Henk A. 1997. Social Impact Assessment: Method and Experience in Europe, North America, and Developing World. HCL Press Limited, 1Gunpowder Square, London EC4A 3DE and 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007-1598 ISBN: 1-85728-347-3. Becker, Henk A. and Frank Vanclay. Eds. 2003. The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment. Cheltenham, Colchester, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN:1 84064 935 6 Burdge, Rabel J. 2004. A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment: 3rd Edition. Middleton, WI (PO Box 53562-0863): Social Ecology Press, ISBN 0-941042-17-0. Available at www.dog-eared.com/socialecologypress/ (A step by step guide on doing SIA at the community or regional level. Indicator tables are designed for the practitioner to complete based on 28 social impact variables that Burdge has identified through research on a variety of project and policy settings.) Canter, Larry W. 1996. Environmental Impact Assessment. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-009764-X. New editions appear at regular intervals. Conyers, Diane. 1993. Guidelines on Social Analysis for Rural Area Development Planning. FAO, Rome. Training Manuel No. 73. ISBN: 92-5-103439-7. (The UN and the World Bank use the term social analysis instead of SIA. This little pamphlet lists SIA variables and how they might be measured in a Third World setting. The only way to get the publication is to write to FAO headquarters in Rome.) Goldman, Laurence R. Ed. 2000. Social Impact Analysis: An Applied Anthropology Manuel. London: Berg, Oxford. (Expensive and therefore not used much, but gives some variables that anthropologists might use when evaluating projects in development settings. Most of the indicators focus on cultural change. The word analysis is substituted for assessment in line with World Bank dictates.) Sadar, M. Hussain. 1998. Environmental Impact Assessment: 2nd Edition. Ottawa: Carlton University Press. ISBN 0-88629-300-6 Shell Corporation. 1996. Social Impact Assessment. HSE Manual EP 95-0371.The Hague, The Netherlands, pp 59. (Order directly from the company) Nice summary of what they did in their SIA’s. Includes a list of variables, both demographic and sociological. Shell’s SIA steps and many of their variables were taken from the US Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment. (Their literature is a bit dated and not available on line.) Taylor, Nicholas C., C. Hobson Bryan and Colin G. Goodrich. 2004. Social Assessment: Theory, Process and Techniques (3rd Edition). Middleton, WI (PO Box 620863): Social Ecology Press ISBN: 0-941042-37-5. Available at www.dog-eared.com/socialecologypress/ (This guidebook includes some of the theoretical background and concepts used in SIA. It has an excellent chapter on scoping and includes much on SIA data gathering techniques. Waiten, Cathy M, 1981. A Guide to Social Impact Assessment. Research Branch, Corporate Policy, Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIA OHA (This monograph was written for Canadian practitioners who might be doing SIA in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Well written and provides details on how to measure SIA variables. Copies should be in the library of the Yukon Environmental Assessment Review board (YESAB) office in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.) Wildman, Paul and Geoff Baker. 1985. The Social Impact Assessment Handbook. Lindfield, NSW, Australia: Social Impacts Publications. ISBN: 0 9589345 2 5. (One of the early handbooks on SIA for natural resource communities. Includes actual variables and attempts to fit SIA within the context of the EIA process. Unfortunately, the book has been out of print for some years.) State-of-the-Art of Social Impact Assessment and Literature Reviews Bowles, Roy T. 1981. Social Impact Assessment in Small Communities: An Integrative Review of Selected Literature Toronto: Butterworths, ISBN 0-409-81611-6. Burdge, Rabel J. and Frank Vanclay.1995. Social Impact Assessment. in F. Vanclay and D. Bronstein. Eds. 1995. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. Chichester, United Kingdom:Wiley, pp 31-65. Burdge, Rabel J. and Frank Vanclay. 1995. Social Impact Assessment: State of the Art. Impact Assessment, 14(1):57-86. Burdge, Rabel J. 2002. Why is Social Impact Assessment the Orphan of the Assessment Process? Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. 20(1):3-9. Burdge, Rabel J. 2008. The Focus of Impact Assessment and (IAIA) Must Now Shift to Global Climate Change. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 28 (4), pp: 1-5. Carley, Michael J. and Eduardo S. Bustello. 1984. Social Impact Assessment: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Literature. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-86531-529-9. Coakes, S. (1998) Valuing the social dimension: Social assessment in the Regional Forest Agreement process, Australian Journal of Environmental Management 5(1): 47-54. Filer. Colin and Annie Holden (from Richie Howitt). 2001. Social Impact Assessment: An Annotated Bibliography. Access at http://www.rsd.com/
Finsterbusch, K. 1985. State of the Art in Social Impact Assessment. Environment and Behavior 17(2):193-221.
Finsterbusch, K. 1995. In Praise of SIA: A Personal Review of the Field of Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment. 13(3):229-52.
Freudenburg, William R. 1986. Social Impact Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology, 12:451‑478.
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Site for a review package for persons accessing the adequacy of an HIA. Go to either www.hiagateway.org.uk or www.bcahealth.co.uk
Leistritz, F. Larry and Brenda L. Ekstrom. 1986. Social Impact Assessment and Management: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Publishing, New York, ISBN: 0-8240-9047-0.
Lockie, Stuart F. 2001. SIA in Review: Setting the Agenda for Impact Assessment in the 21st Century. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. 19(4):277-287.
Vanclay, Frank. 2006. Principles for Social Impact Assessment: A Critical Comparison between the International and US Documents. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (1), pp. 3-14.
Conceptual Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment
Burdge, Rabel J. 2004. The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment. (Social Ecology Press, PO Box 620863, Middleton, WI 53562) ISBN 0-941042-35-9. www.dog-eared.com/socialecologypress/
Burdge, Rabel J. and Frank Vanclay. 1995. Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment, 14(1):57-86., also in Vanclay and Bronstein Eds., Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. 1995, Wiley & Sons: Chichester, Sussex, UK, pp 31-65.
Coates, J. F. 1971. Technology Assessment: The Benefits...the Costs...the Consequences. The Futurist 5, 6, pp. 225-31.
Freudenburg, William R. and Susan K. Pastor. 1992. Public Responses to Technological Risks: Toward a Sociological Perspective. Sociological Quarterly, 33(3, August): 389-412.
Freudenburg, William R. and Kenneth M. Keating. 1985. Applying Sociology to Policy: Social Science and the Environmental Impact Statement. Rural Sociology, 50(4):578‑605.
Gramling, Robert and William R. Freudenburg. 1992. Opportunity‑Threat, Development, and Adaptation: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Social Impact Assessment. Rural Sociology, 57(2):216‑234.
Rickson, Roy E., Rabel J. Burdge and Audrey Armour. Eds. 1990. Integrating Impact Assessment into the Planning Process: International Perspectives and Experience. Impact Assessment Bulletin, 8: (1/2); 357 pages.
Slootweg, R., Vanclay, F. and van Schooten, M. 2001. Function evaluation as a framework for the integration of social and environmental impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 19(1):19-28.
Stoeglehnerhner, Gernot, A.L. Brown and Lone B. Kornov. 2009. SEA Planning: “Ownership Of Strategic Environmental Assessment By The Planners Is The Key To Its Effectiveness. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 27(2):111-120.
Vanclay, Frank. 1999. Social Impact Assessment. In Petts, J. ed. Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment. Volume 1. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 301-326. ISBN: 0-632-04772-0.
Vanclay, Frank. 2002. Social impact assessment. In Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change (Vol. 5), Mostafa K. Tolba (ed). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, pp 387-93. ISBN 0-471-97796-9.
Vanclay, F. (2002a) ‘Social Impact Assessment’. In M. Tolba ed. Responding to Global Environmental Change (Vol 4 of Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change) Chichester: Wiley: 387-393.
Vanclay, Frank. 2001. Conceptualising Social Impacts. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 22(3):183-211.
Vanclay, Frank and D. A. Bronstein. Eds. 1995. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. Chichester, Sussex, UK: Wiley & Sons.
Wolf, C.P. 1980. Getting Social Impact Assessment into the Policy Arena, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 1(1):27-36.
SIA Methodology
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 1992. Sociological Analysis in Agricultural Investment in Project Design. FAO Investment Centre Technical Paper 9. Rome, Italy.
Conyers, Diane. 1993. Guidelines on Social Analysis for Rural Area Development Planning. FAO, Rome. Training Manuel No. 73. ISBN: 92-5-103439-7.
Cernea, M.M. 1994. Using Knowledge from Social Sciences in Development Projects. Project Appraisal 9(2):83-94.
Chambers, R. 1994. The Origins and Practice of Participatory Rural Appraisal. World Development. 22(7) July: 953-969.
Dale, Allan, C. Nicholas Taylor and Marcus Lane, Eds. 2001. Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions. CSIRO Publishing. PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria, 3066 Australia. 312 pp. ISBN: 0 643 06558X go to www.publish.csiro.au/books/
Damrin, M. A. 1993. The Need for Risk Assessment by Consensus. Impact Assessment. 11 (2) pp. 123-45.
Denq, Furjen and June Altenhofel. 1997. Social Impact Assessments Conducted by Federal Agencies: An Evaluation. Impact Assessment, 15: 209-231.
Esteves, A.M. and Frank Vanclay. 2009. Social Development Needs Analysis as a Tool For SIA To Guide Corporate-Community Investment: Applications In The Minerals Industry, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 29(2): 137-145
Finsterbusch, Kurt, J. Ingersol, and Lynn Llewellyn (eds.). 1990. Methods for Social Analysis in Developing Countries. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 0-8337-829-X
Finsterbusch, Kurt, Lynn G. Llewellyn, and C.P. Wolf (eds.). 1983. Social Impact Assessment Methods. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. ISBN 0‑8039‑2142. --Carley, M.J. “A Review of Selected Methods of Social Impact Assessment, pp.341—78 --Motz, A. B. “Historical Documents in Social Impact Assessment Methods. pp. 123-456.
Goodrich, Colin and C. Nicholas Taylor, Eds. 1995. Special Issue on Social Assessment. Project Appraisal. 10:3, 141-196. ISBN: 0268-8867.
Halstead, John M., Robert A. Chase, Steve H. Murdock and F. Larry Leistritz. 1985. Socioeconomic Impact Management: Design and Implementation, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 250 pp.
Howitt, R. & Jackson, S. (2000) SIA and linear projects: methodological issues arising from the Alice Springs to Darwin Railway in Goldman, L. (ed) Social Impact Analysis: An Applied Anthropology Manual, Berg Publishers, Oxford, 257-294.
Hyman, E. L., and B. Stiftel. 1988. Combining Facts and Values in Environmental Impact Assessment: Theories and Techniques. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
International Association for Impact Assessment. No Date. Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment: Best Practices. 1330 23rd Street South, Suite C. Fargo, ND 58103 http://www.iaia.org
International Institute for Sustainable Development. 2005. Sustainable Development Indicators: Proposals for a Way Forward. Accessed at http://.www.iisd.org/publications/ Prepared by Laszio Pinter, Peter Hardi and Peter Bartelmus.
King, Thomas F. 1998. How the Anthropologists Stole Culture: A Gap in American Environmental Impact Assessment Practice and How to Fill It, Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 18: 117-134.
Leistritz, Larry and Steven H. Murdock. 1981. The Socioeconomic Impact of Resource Development: Methods of Assessment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-89158-978-3.
Litchfield, Nathaniel. 1996. Community Impact Evaluation. University College of London Press, London. ISBN: 1-85728-238-8.
Lowe, Nichola and Brian J. Morton. 2008. Developing Standards: The Role of Community benefits Agreements in Enhancing Job Quality. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society. 39:2, pp 23-35.
McCold, Lance N, and James W. Saulsbury. 1998. Defining the No-Action Alternative for National Environmental Policy Act Analysis of Continuing Actions. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 18: 15-38.
Mulvihill, Peter R. and Peter Jacobs. 1998. Using Scoping as a Design Process. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 18: 35—370.
Participatory Action Research, The National Center for The Study of Adult Learning and Literacy has details on the methodology. Go to http://www.ncsall.net/?id=479
O’Faircheallaigh, C. 1999. Making Social Impact Assessment Count: a Negotiation-based approach for indigenous peoples’. Society and Natural Resources. 12 (1), pp 63-80.
Rickson, Roy E., Tor Hundloe, Geoffrey T. McDonald and Rabel J. Burdge, eds. 1990. Social Impact of Development: Putting Theory and Methods into Practice. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 10(1/2): 357 pages.
Safilios-Rothschild, C. 1981. Social Impact Analysis: A Model and Strategy for Implementation in Development Assistance. Human Resources, Institutions and Agrarian Reform Division, Home Economics and Social Programmes Service. FAO, Rome Italy(out of print).
Seebohm, Kym. 1997. Guiding Principles for the Practice of Social Assessment in the Australian Water Industry. Impact Assessment, 15: 233-251. Stoffle, Richard W., and others. 1990. Calculating the Cultural Significance of American Indian Plants: Paiute and Shoshone Ethnobotany at Yucca Mountain Nevada. American Anthropologist, 92(2): 416‑432.
Vanclay, Frank. 2006. Principles for Social Impact Assessment: A Critical Comparison between the International and US Documents. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (1), pp. 3-14.
Stolp, A., W. Groen, et. al. 2002. Citizen Values Assessment: Incorporating Citizen’s Value Judgments in Environmental Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. 20(1): 11-23.
Yukon Department of Economic Development. 1997. An Introduction to Socio-economic Impact Assessment. Librarian, Yukon Department of Development, Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, Y1A 2C6 169 pages. Most of these publications may be accessed at: http://www.yesab.tzo.com/wfm/launch/lamps/YESAB
SIA Research Findings
Banks, G. (1999a) Keeping an Eye on the Beasts: Social Monitoring of Large-Scale Mines in New Guinea, Resource Management in Asia Pacific (RMAP) Working Papers No. 21, Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
Banks, G. (1999b) Business as unusual. In The Dilemmas of Development: The Social and Economic Impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989-1994, C. Filer (ed). Canberra: Asia-Pacific Press, 222-259.
Banks, G. (2000) Social impact assessment monitoring and household surveys. In Social Impact Analysis: An Applied Anthropology Manual, L.R. Goldman (ed). Oxford: Berg, 297-343.
Banks, G. 2000. Social Impact Assessment Monitoring And Household Surveys. In Social Impact Analysis: An Applied Anthropology Manual, L.R. Goldman (ed). Oxford: Berg, 297-343.
Berger, Thomas R. 1983. Resources, Development, and Human Values. Impact Assessment Bulletin, 2(2):129-147.
Brealey, T. B., C. C. Neil and P. W. Newton. Eds. Resource Communities: Settlement and Workforce Issues. CSIRO Publications. East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ISBN: 0-643 04247 4.
Burdge, Rabel J. Guest Editor. 2003. The Practice of Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 21(2&3): 84-234 (two issues). Order www.scipol.demon.co.uk
Burnigham, K. 1995. Attitudes, Accounts and Impact Assessment. The Sociological Review. 43(1): 100-122.
Castleden, Heather, Theresa Garvin, Huu-ay-aht First Nation. 2009. “Hishuk Tsawak” (Everything is One/Connected): A Huu-ay-aht Worldview for Seeing Forestry in British Columbia, Canada. Society and Natural Resources, 22:798-804.
Cochrane, Glynn. 1979. The Cultural Appraisal of Development Projects. New York: Praeger Publications.
Cernea, Michael M. Ed. 1995 Putting people First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development 2nd Edition. Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press. New York. ISBN: 0195208277. --Cernea, M. “Knowledge from Social Science for Development Policies and Projects, pp. 330-xxx --Chambers, R. “Shortcut and Participatory Methods for Gaining Social Information for Projects, pp. 234-123. --Uphoff, N. “Fitting projects to People,” pp. 123-456.
Coudouel, Aline, Anis A. Dani, Stefano Paternostro eds. Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms: Lessons and Examples from Implementation. The World Bank-Publications. 1818 H Street NW. Washington DC 20433. ISBN-10: 0-8213-6486-3. Case studies on the Social Impact Analysis of poverty reforms—heavily on economic models.
Dahlberg, Kenneth A. and John W. Bennett (eds.). 1986. Natural Resources and People: Conceptual Issues in Interdisciplinary Research, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 384 pp.
Detomasi, Don and John W. Gartrell. 1985. Resource Communities: A Decade of Disruption, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Dixon, Mim. 1978. What Happened to Fairbanks: The Effects of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline on the Community of Fairbanks, Alaska. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-89158-961-9.
Du Pisani, Jacobus A. and Luke A. Sandham. 2006. Assessing the Performance of SIA in the EIA context: A Case Study of South Africa. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (8), pp. 707-724.
Egre, D., Senecal, P. (2003) Social impact assessments of large dams throughout the world. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. 21(3): 215-224.
Esteves, A.M. 2008. Evaluating Community Investments in the Mining Sector Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Integrate SIA Within Business Planning. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 28 (4-5), pp. 338-348.
Elkind‑Savatsky, Pamela. 1986. Differential Social Impacts of Rural Resource Development. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 293 pp.
Freudenburg, William R. and Kenneth M. Keating. 1985. Applying Sociology to Policy: Social Science and the Environmental Impact Statement. Rural Sociology, 50(4):578-605.
Freudenburg, William R. and Robert Gramling. 1992. Community Impacts of Technological Change: Toward a Longitudinal Perspective. Social Forces, 70(4): 937‑55.
Freudenburg, William R. and Robert Gramling. 1994. Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics and the Battle over Offshore Drilling. State University Press of New York, Albany. ISBN: 0-7914-1882-0.
Freudenburg, William R. and Robert E. Jones. 1992. Criminal Behavior and Rapid Community Growth: Examining the Evidence. Rural Sociology, 56 (4): 619‑45.
Freudenburg, William R., Richard L. Perrine, and F. Roach, eds., 1984. Paradoxes of Western Energy Development. Boulder, CO: Westview.
Fortin, Marie-Jose and Christiane Gagnon. 2006. Interpreting Major Industrial Landscapes: Social Follow-up on Meanings, the Case of Two Aluminum Smelters, Alcan (Alma, Canada) and Pechiney (Dunkirk, France).Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (8), pp 725-745.
Gale, Robert and Fred Gale. 2005. Accounting for Social Impacts and Costs in the Forest Industry, British Columbia. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (2), pp. 139-155.
Gamble, D.J. 1978. The Berger Inquiry: An Impact Assessment Process. Science, 199(3) March, 946-952.
Goodrich, Colin G. and C. Nicholas Taylor, eds. 1995. Special Issue on Social Impact Assessment. Project Appraisal, 10(3):141-208.
Gramling, Robert and William R. Freudenburg. 1990. A Closer Look at `Local Control: Communities, Commodities, and the Collapse of the Coast. Rural Sociology, 55(4): 541‑58.
Greider, Thomas and Lorraine Garkovich. 1994. Symbolic Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment. Rural Sociology, 59 (1) 1-24.
Howitt, R. 2001. The Importance of process in Social Impact Assessment: Ethics, Methods and Process for Cross-Cultural Engagement. Ethics, Place and Environment. 8(2): 209-221.
Hunter, Lori M., Richard S. Krannich and Michael D. Smith. 2002. Rural Migration, Rapid Growth, and Fear of Crime. Rural Sociology 67(1):71-89.
Human Ecology Review. 2008. Special Issue on Vulnerability and Resilience in Fisheries. 15(2), pp141-226.
Houghton, R. M. 1987. Social Policy Issues in Planning Major Development Projects: Rural Community Impacts. New Zealand Journal of Geography. 14-16.
Kumagai, Yoshitaka, John Edwards and Matthew S. Carroll. 2006. Why are Natural Disasters not “Natural” for the Victims? Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (1), pp. 106-119.
McKell, Cyrus M. Paradoxes of Western Energy Development: How Can We Maintain the Land and the People if We Develop? Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 327 pp.
Millsap, William (ed.). December 1983. Applied Social Science for Environmental Planning. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-86531-707-0.
Murdock, Steven H., Richard S. Krannich and F. Larry Leistritz. 1999. Hazardous Wastes in Rural America: Impacts Implications and Options for Rural Communities. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN: 0-8476-9100-4.
Natcher, David C. and Susan Davis. 2007. Rethinking Devolution: Challenges for Aboriginal Resource management in the Yukon Territory. Society and Natural Resources, 20; 271-279.
Noble, Bram. 2008. Strategic Approaches to Regional Cumulative Effects Assessments: A Case Study of the Great Sand Hills, Canada. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 26(2): 78-90.
O’Faircheallaigh, Ciaran. 1999. Making Social Impact Assessment Count: A Negotiation-Based Approach for Indigenous People. Society and Natural Resources, 12(1):63-80.
O’ Faircheallaigh, Ciran. 2006. Environmental Agreements, EIA follow-up and Aboriginal Participation in Environmental management: The Canadian Experience. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 27 (4):319-342.
O’ Faircheallaigh, Ciran. 2009. Effectiveness in Social Impact Assessment: Aboriginal Peoples And Resource Development In Australia. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 27(2): 95-110.
Palinkas, Lawrence A., Bruce Murray Harris, John S. Peterson. 1985. A Systems Approach to Social Impact Assessment: Two Alaskan Case Studies. Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 290 pp.
Pakin, V. 1996. When Science is Not Enough: A Case Study in Social Impact Mitigation. Impact Assessment. 14:3 pp. 321-328.
Pollnac, Richard B. et al. 2006. Toward a Model for Fisheries Social Impact Assessment. Marine Fisheries Review. 68 (1-4), pp. 1-18. To down load a copy the website is http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/mcontent.htm
Rickson, Roy E. Marcus Lane, Mark Lynch-Blosse, John Western. 1995. Community, Environment, and Development: Social Impact Assessment in Resource-Dependent Communities. Impact Assessment, 13(4):347-386.
Sairinen, Rauno and Satu Kumpulainen. 2006. Assessing Social Impacts in Urban Waterfront Regeneration. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (1), pp. 120-135.
Smith, Courtland L., Thomas C. Hogg, and Michael J. Reagan. 1971. Economic Development: Panacea or Perplexity in Rural Areas, Rural Sociology 36(2), 2:173-186.
Smith, Michael D., Richard S. Krannich, and Lori M. Hunter. 2001. Growth, Decline, Stability, and Disruption: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Well-Being in Four Western Rural Communities. Rural Sociology 66(3):425-450.
Simon, Alexander. 2009. The Adverse Social and Ecological Consequences of Trophy Hunting in Alaska. Environmental and Technological Section Newsletter of the American Sociological Association. pp 6-9. Access at https://uascentral.uas.alaska.edu/onlinelib/Spring-2009/SOC375-J01/Trophyhuntinget.pdf
Stoffle, Richard W. and Others. 1988. The Superconducting Super Collider at the Stockbridge, Michigan, Site: Community Support and Land Acquisition. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ISBN: 0-87944-324-3.
Stoffle, Richard W. and Others. 1990. Native American Cultural Resource Studies at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Stoffle, Richard W. and Others. 1991. Risk Perception Mapping: Using Ethnography to Define the Locally Affected Population for a Low‑Level Radioactive Waste Storage Facility in Michigan: American Anthropologist, 93 (3): 611‑635. Stoffle, Richard W. and Richard Arnold. 2003. Confronting the Angry Rock: American Indians’ Situated Risks from Radioactivity. Ethnos. 68(2):230-248.
Stoffle, Richard and Jessica Minnis. 2008. Resilience at Risk: Epistemological and Social Construction Barriers to Risk Communication. Journal of Risk Research. 11 (1&2), pp 55-68.
Stolp, A., W. Groen, J. van Vliet, J. and F. Vanclay. 2002 Citizen Values Assessment: Incorporating Citizens’ Value Judgements In Environmental Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 20(1): 11-23.
Thompson, J. G. and Gary Williams. 1990. Vertical Linkage and Competition for Local Political Power: A Case of natural Resource Development and Federal Land Power. Impact Assessment. 10:4 pp.33-58.
Weber, Bruce A. and Robert E. Howell (eds.). 1982. Coping with Rapid Growth in Rural Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-86531-905-7.
Wilkinson, Kenneth P., James G. Thompson, Robert R. Reynolds, Jr. and Laurence M. Ostresh. 1982. Local Social Disruption and Western Energy Development: A Critical Review. Pacific Sociological Review, 25:275‑296.
Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment
Arnstein, S.R. (1969) “A ladder of citizen participation.” American Institute of Planning Journal 35(4): 216-224.
Creighton, James L. 2005. The Public Participation Handbook: Making Better decisions through Citizen Involvement. Jossey-Bass Publishers. ISBN: 0787973076.
Daneke, Gregory A., Margot W. Garcia and Jerome Delli Priscoli. 1983. Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-86531-624-4.
Howell, R.E., M.E. Olsen, and D. Olsen. 1987. Designing a Citizen Involvement Program. Corvallis, OR: Western Rural Development Center, WREP 105.
Roberts, Richard 1995. Public Involvement: From Consultation to Participation. In Vanclay and Bronstein eds. Environmental and Social Impact Assessment. pp.221-246.
Vining, Joanne (ed). 1988. Public Involvement in Natural Resource Management. Society and Natural Resources, 1(4):All.
Social Impact Assessment Classics: Most out of print, but may be borrowed from regional libraries, the Library of Congress or by contacting the Authors.
Branch, Kristi, Douglas A. Hooper, James Thompson and James C. Creighton. 1984. Guide to Social Impact Assessment. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0‑86531‑717‑8.
Burdge, Rabel J. and Paul Opryzsek. June 1981. Coping with Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of the Lake Shelbyville Reservoir. UILU-IES 81 0008, IES Report No. 8.
Corwin, Ruthann, Patrick H. Heffernan, and others, (eds.). 1975. Environmental Impact Assessment. San Francisco, CA: Freeman, Cooper and Co., ISBN 0-87735-061-2.
Culhane, Paul J., H. Paul Friesema, and Janice A. Beecher. 1987. Forecasts and Environmental Decisionmaking: The Contents and the Predicative Accuracy of Environmental Impact Statements. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN: 0-8133-0154-8.
Daneke, M. W. Garcia and J. Della Priscoli. Eds. 1983. Public Involvement and Social Impact Assessment. Westview press. Boulder, Colorado. --Creighton, J. “The Use of Values: Public Participation in the Planning Process,” pp. 123-345.
Derman, William and Scott Whiteford. Eds. 1985. Social Impact and Analysis and Development Planning in the Third World. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. ISBN:0-86531-786-0
Finsterbusch, Kurt. 1980. Understanding Social Impacts: Assessing the Effects of Public Projects. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, ISBN 0-8039-1016-9.
Finsterbusch, Kurt and C. P. Wolf (eds.). 1981. Methodology of Social Impact Assessment. 2nd Edition. Stroudsburg, PA: Hutchinson Ross, ISBN 0‑87933‑2735.
Fitzsimmons, Stephen J., Lorrie I. Stuart and Peter C. Wolf. 1977. Social Assessment Manual: A Guide to the Preparation of the Social Well-Being Account for Planning Water Resources Projects. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Geisler, Charles C. and others. 1982. Indian SIA: The Social Impact Assessment of Rapid Resource Development on Native People. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, Natural Resources Sociology Research Lab., Monograph 3.
Gold, Raymond L. 1985. Ranching, Mining, and the Human Impact of Natural Resource Development. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books. ISBN: 0-88738-025-5
Hart, Stuart L., Gordan A. Enk, and William F. Hornick. 1985. Improving Impact Assessment: Increasing the Relevance and Utilization of Scientific and Technical Information, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 440 pp.
Llewellyn, L.G. 1981. The Social Cost of Urban Transportation. In Transportation and Behavior. I. Altman, J. Wohlwill and P. Everett, eds. New York: Plenum Press, 169‑202.
Rau, John G. and David G. Woolen. 1980. Environmental Impact Analysis Handbook. New York: McGraw Hill Publishers, ISBN 0-07-051217-5.
Rossini, F. A., and A. L. Porter. Eds. 1983. Integrated Impact assessment. Westview Press. Boulder. Colorado. --Chen, K. “Using Alternative Future Scenarios for Integrating Impact Assessments,” pp. 123-345. --Moor, K. d. and J. S. Moor, et. al. “Socioeconomic Impacts of Western Energy Resource Development: State of the Art and Limitations,” pp. 123-456. --Enk, G. A. and W. F. Hornick. “Human Values and Impact Assessment,” pp. 123-345.
Sewell, W. R. D. and J.T. Coppock. Eds. 1977. Public Participation in Planning. London: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0-47199-474-X
Tatz, Colin. Editor. 1984. Aborigines and Uranium. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Australian Government Publishing Service, Camberra, 318 pp.
Tester, Frank J. and William Mykes. Eds. 1981. Social Impact Assessment: Theory and Methods. Detselig Enterprises Ltd., Calgary, AL, Canada. ISBN: 0-920490-14-X
Waiten, Cathy M, 1981. A Guide to Social Impact Assessment. Research Branch, Corporate Policy, Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIA OHA.
Weber, Bruce A. and Robert E. Howell. Eds. 1982 Coping with Rapid Growth in Rural Communities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, ISBN 0-86531-905-7.
Wildman, Paul and Geoff Baker. 1985. The Social Impact Assessment Handbook. Lindfield, NSW, Australia: Social Impacts Publications. ISBN: 0 9589345 2 5
Wolf, C. P. (ed.). 1974. Social Impact Assessment. EDRA 5, Environmental Design Research Associates, Inc., Box 23120, Washington, D.C. 20024.
Referred Journals that publish papers of interest to SIA practitioners.
§ American Anthropologist www.aaanet.org; http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-anthropology-on-the-web.aspx § Australian Geographical Studies go to www.iag.org.au § Environmental Impact Assessment Review go to Editor ejohnson@ecosite.co.uk or www.elsevier.com/homepage/ § Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: An International Journal § Human Organization § Assessment and combined with Project Appraisal in 1998). editor.iapa@man.ac.uk or the IAIA website www.iaia.org To order back issues go to: www.scipol.demon.co.uk § Rural Sociology www.ruralsociology.org § Society and Natural Resources go to editor snr@hass.usu.edu sample copy: snr@tandfpa.com § Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, Thomas B Fischer, Editor, University of Liverpool, 74 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7ZQ, UK, Phone ++44-151-7943112, Fax ++44-151-7943125, http://www.liv.ac.uk/civdes/staff/fischer.htm or www.icpress.demon.co.uk § Journal of Environmental Management and Planning j.f.benson@newcastle.ac.uk § Human Ecology Review Editor Linda Kalof, lkalof@msu.edu § International Journal of Public Participation (ISSN 1992-6707) Editor Michael Briand, mkbriand@iap2.org for current and back issues go to www.iap2.org/IJP2
Professional Organizations in Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
• www.iaia.org is the home page of the International Association for Impact Assessment, organized in 1981 to bring together researchers, government employees, practitioners, and users of all types of impact assessment. Click on publications to see a variety of publications in all fields of impact assessment to include “Best Practices” and key citations. • • http://www.iaia-wnc.ca/ The website of the Western and Northern Canada Affiliate Office of the International Association. Details on their activities, conferences, publications and membership.
• The website of AQEI—Quebec Association for Environmental Evaluation is http://www.aqei.qc.ca/. Includes references in French, English and Spanish.
• Home page of the International Association for Public Participation-IAP2 is http://www.iap2.org/. Good source of information on a variety of public involvement and community consultation techniques.
• The home page of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences is www.aess.info/ A new organization bringing together the university programs around the world focusing on environmental studies and sciences. The address is AESS, Environmental Studies Program, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160.
• The home page of the Australasian chapter of the International Association for Public Participation-IAP2 is http://www.iap2.org.au The Australasia chapter holds their annual meeting in March of every year. Join the Australasia chapter and you also become a member of the worldwide chapter.
• Rural Sociological Society go to www.ruralsociology.org
• International Association for Society and Natural Resources go to snr@hass.usu.edu
• National Association of Environmental Professionals was founded in 1975 for persons who work on a variety of environmental planning issues. They publish The Environmental Professional. Go to www.naep.org
• Home page of the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment (NZAIA) go to http:/www.nzaia.org.nz . • Home page of Rabel J Burdge is http://www.socialimpactassessment.net. Also it may be accessed at www.socialimpactassessment.com The site includes a detailed SIA reference list, course outlines and upcoming SIA training programs, current meetings, links to other websites and the latest news in the field of SIA. If you need SIA help click on Rabel’s SIA consulting activities.
• The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN has developed a website on Socio-economic and gender analysis (SEAGA). Lots of interesting guides in such areas as rural households and resources: a guide for extension workers; gender-disaggregated data for agriculture and natural resource sectors as well as socio-economic and gender analysis for emergency and rehabilitation programmes. Go to: www.fao.org/sd/SEAGA
General Publications on SIA/EIA Regulations, Content and Administrative Procedures
Goodland, Robert. 2000. Social and Environmental Assessment to Promote Sustainability: An Informal View from the World Bank. Environment Department Paper No. 74. World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Wood, Christopher. 2003. Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Review, 2nd Edition. Essex, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Ltd. ISBN: 0-582-36969-X
United States Regulations, Content and Administrative Procedures
Bass, R. 1998. Evaluating Environmental Justice under the National Environmental Policy Act. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 18: 32-92.
Bright, Alan D.; Cordell, H. Ken; Hoover, Anne P., Tarrant, Michael A. 2003. A Human Dimensions Framework: Guidelines for Conducting Social Assessments. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-65. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 83 p. http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/trends/pubab.html (This site lists all Forest Service publications for download of which the above is one).
Clark, Ray and Larry Canter, eds. 1997. Environmental Policy and NEPA: Past, Present and Future. Boca Raton, Florida: St. Lucie Press. ISBN: 1-57444-072-1
Council on Environment Quality. 1997. Considering Cumulative Effects under the National Policy Act. Washington, D.C., Office of the President.
US Council on Environmental Quality may be found at http://tis.eh.doe.gov/nepa/ The site has NEPA guidance, regulations, scoping procedures, and links to other US Federal agencies environmental programs.
Council on Environment Quality. 1997. Environmental Justice: Guidance under the national Environmental Policy Act. Washington, D.C., Office of the President.
Executive Office of the President of the United States. 1994. Executive Order 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. Federal Register. 59: 7629 et seq.
Executive Office of the President of the United States. 2000. Executive Order 13166: Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency. Federal Register. 65: 50121 et seq.
Jordan, William S. III. 1984. Psychological Harm after PANE: NEPA’s Requirements to Consider Psychological Damage. Harvard Environmental Law Review, 8:55‑87.
Llewellyn, Lynn G. and William R. Freudenburg. 1989. Legal Requirements for Social Impact Assessments: Assessing the Social Science Fallout from Three Mile Island. Society and Natural Resources, 2(3): 193-208.
Natural Resources Journal 16. April 1976. Special Issue on the US national Environmental Policy Act. University of New Mexico Law School. Albuquerque, NM., Vol. 16.
NEPA, The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Public Law 91-190:852-859.42, U.S.C. and as Amended (P.L. 94‑52 and P.L. 94‑83) 42 U.S.C. 4321‑4347.
U.S. Council on Environment Quality. 1986. Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (40 CFR 1500‑1508). Washington: Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
McCold, L. N. and J. W. Saulsbury. 1998. Defining the No-Action Alternative for National Environmental Policy Act Analysis of Continuing Actions. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 18: 353-370.
Public Policy Forum. March, 2006. Sharing in the benefits of Resource developments: A Study of First Nations-Industry Impact Benefits Agreements. Prepared by Gordon Shanks.Public Policy forum. 1405-130 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4. www.ppforum.ca
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USDI). 2001. Social Analysis Manuel Volume I: Manager’s Guide to Using Social Analysis; Volume II Social Analyst’s Guide to Doing Social Analysis. Resource Management and Planning Group. Technical Service Center, Denver Federal Center D-8580, Bldg. 67. Denver, CO 80225-0007.
U.S. Forest Service. 1982. Guidelines for Economic and Social Analysis of Programs, Resource Plans, and Projects: Final Policy, Federal Register. 47(80) April 26, pp. 17940-17954. (The strength of this manual is the integration of SIA with the NEPA process. It also lists the specific SIA variables used by the Forest Service in doing SIA. Nice section on indigenous populations.)
U.S. Department of Transportation. 1996. FHWA-PD-96-036 HEP-30/8-96 (10M)P: Community Impact Assessment—A Quick Reference for Transportation (September). http://environment.fhwa.dot.gov/projdev/tdmcia.htm (Somehow the Department of Transportation got away with using Community Impact Assessment instead of Social Impact Assessment, however they are the same. This little pamphlet tells what they do in the way of social impact assessment and a little bit on some of their indicators.)
Community Impact Assessment web site for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT). Background, activities, and resources at: http://www.ciatrans.net/. Definition, components, and importance of CIA, background information, resources, and electronic links to other sites on CIA and related subjects. Community Impact Assessment Handbook: A Handbook for Transportation Professionals. Prepared by the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), University of South Florida for Florida DOT. November 2000. 175 pages. Expands on FHWA’s “Community Impact Assessment: A Quick Reference for Transportation”. Provides methods and indicators that practitioners can use to identify and evaluate the community impacts of transportation projects and strategies for reducing adverse impacts. Online at: http://www.cutr.eng.usf.edu/index2.htm.
California DOT (CalTrans) Community Impact Assessment, part of their Environmental Handbook. 1997. Key topics: social, economic and public services impacts, land use, and growth. Available as a PDF download at http://www.dot.ca.gov/ser/envhand.htm.
States with NEPA-like Environmental Planning requirements: http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/states/states.cfm
NCHRP 456, “Guidebook for Assessing the Social and Economic Effects of Transportation Projects,” Parts A and B from NCHRP Project 25-19 is available online at: http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_456-a.pdf
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 go to: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/nepatxt.htm
EconData.net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and sub state socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web. EconoData.Net is sponsored by the Economic Development administration as a service to regional data user, and is jointly operated by Impresa, Inc. and Andrew Reamer & Associate, independent economic development consulting firms. http://www.econdata.net/
American Community Survey (ACS) is a new approach by the US Census as a supplement ot the decennial census, designed to collect timely information needed for critical government functions. It is an ongoing survey that the Census Bureau plans to use to replace the long form in the 2010 Census. http://www.census.gov/acs/www/
State and County QuickFacts provide frequently requested Census Bureau information at the national, state, and county levels. This user-friendly website provides access to multiple datasets. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/_
American FactFinder provides a search feature of the Census Bureau’s web site that helps users locate data quickly and easily from the recent Economic Census, The ACS, the 1990 Census, the Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal, and Census 2000. Access to thematic maps and reference maps that include roads and boundary information is available via FactFinders http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/basicfactsservlet
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) prepares regional economic accounts for the United States to provide Estimates of state and local-area personal income and gross state product. http://www.bea.doc.gov/
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) BLS provides three types of data for use in place-based and regional planning: labor force status of person by place of residence; jobs and wages by place of work; and prices and living conditions. The local area unemployment statistics program prepares monthly labor force data for 6,700 areas in the United States, including states, metropolitan areas, counties, and cities of more than 25,000. (http://www.bls.gov/home.htm)
Considering Cumulative Effects under the National Environmental Policy Act: http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/ccenepa/ccenepa.htm
Eleven Steps for Cumulative Effects Evaluation: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cumeff11.htm
CEQ Cumulative Effects Handbook: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/guidebook/vol2/doc6a.pdf
FHWA website at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov Excellent site. (Go to: Planning and Environment plus there you may download many publications.)
Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decision making. Very useful 225-page manual of over 100 public involvement techniques. 1996. Available on the FHWA web site at: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/pittd/cover.htm.
“Meeting in a Box” is a self –guided and individually hosted workshop that can be presented by any club, service organization or neighborhood in the privacy of one’s home. http://www.mrsc.org/subjsects/governance/participation/s71-meetinginabox.pdf
FHWA/FTA Environmental Justice website: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/publin2.htm, an excellent site. It includes the Executive Order, U.S. DOT Order and FHWA Order on Environmental Justice, the FHWA/FTA brochure on E.J., Title VI information, case studies, best practices, and links to numerous other E.J. resources.
Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/saipe/
U.S. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. May 1998. Community Impact Mitigation: Case Studies. Publication No. FHWA-PD-98-024.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. November 2002. Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place. Publication No. EPA 842-B-01-003. (For copies call 1-800-490-9198 or +1-513-489-8190.)
U.S. Office of Management and Budget. 2002. Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies. Federal Register 67 (36).
Water Resources Council. 1983. Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies. Government Printing Office. Washington, DC.
Canadian Regulations, Content and Administrative Procedures
Galbraith, Lindsay, Ben Bradshaw and Murray B. Rutherford. 2007. Towards a new Supraregulatory Approach to Environmental Assessment in Northern Canada. Impact Assessment and Project appraisal, 25 (1), pp. 27-41.
Agyeman, Julien, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O'Riley. 2009. Speaking for Ourselves Environmental Justice in Canada University of British Columbia Press. $85.00 Hardcover, ISBN: 978-0-7748-1618-2
Environmental Justice in Canada special Journal Issue. 2008. The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 12 (6).
Yukon Government. 1997 Department of Economic Development. An Introduction to Socio-Economic Impact Assessment. Contact: Librarian: Yukon Department of Economic Development, Box 2703, Whitehorse YK Y1A 2C6. Copies should be in the library of the Yukon Environmental Assessment Review board (YESAB) office in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.) (This monograph was designed as an introduction to the principles and practices of SEIA for decision makers and the general public in the Yukon. It features the 1994 US Principles and Guidelines for SIA Now outdated), a paper by Burdge and Vanclay and a power point presentation by Richard Roberts of Praxis showing their approach to doing SIA. It does include a selection of Yukon project and policy studies containing SIA components. Very little on economic impacts, other than how employment data are analyzed by sociologists.)
• Home page of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency may be found at http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/index_e.htmways Details on the Act, procedures, steps and a variety of links as well as all their training activities and ways for citizens to get involved. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act does not specifically require SIA, but several provinces, territories and First Nations do.
• The website of the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board is http://www.mveirb.nt.ca Includes electronic copies of new SEIA Guidelines as well as all documents related to their project related assessments.
• The website for statistics of the Northern Territory of Canada is:. http://www.stats.gov.nt.ca/ Detailed demographic and a lot of other stuff by community. The community profiles are excellent and provide much of the detail necessary for the baseline study/the Community profile.
• Website of the Yukon Environmental Assessment Board is http://www.yesab.ca/publications/guides.html Includes electronic copies of their many publications and recent guidelines. Also details on how to do EIA.
• The website of the National Energy Board of Canada is: http://www.neb-one.gc.ca/Publications/index_e.htm --Includes some information on relations with First Nations as well as a lot of energy statistics for Canada.
• A number of references on Health Impact Assessment to include a guide prepared by Canadians may be found at http://who.int/hia/about/guides/en/index.html.
• Useful website in Canada for obtaining on hard to get socio-economic information is Socio-Economic Assessment and Monitoring: A Guide to Collecting and Using information for communities in Nunavut (also other Aboriginal communities) go to: http://www.nunavuteda.com/english/publications/files/SocioEconomicMonitoring_FINAL.pdf
Other Countries, International Aid and Donor Agencies and Ministries Social Assessment Procedures
Australia. (1999) Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (No 91, 1999).
Donnelly, Annie, Barry Dalal-Clayton and Ross Hughes. 1998. A Directory of Impact Assessment Guidelines, Second Edition, Bookshop Manager, IIED, 3 Endsleigh St. London, WC1H 0DD, United Kingdom.
European Union Guidelines on Impact Assessment (not much on SIA) may be accessed at: http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/commission_guidelines/commission_guidelines_en.htm
Fenton, Mark and NSW Government. 2005. Draft Guidebook on Social Impact Assessment. Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources, Sydney. ISBN 1 74029 220 0 GPO Box 39, Sydney 2001, Australia. (This guide will be published in September of 2005. The author was influenced by the Burdge Community Guide book so it has similar indicators, but applied to resource development in Australia. The author is a geographer so some of those indicators have been added.)
Donnelly, A., Dalal-Clayton, B. & Hughes, R. eds. (1998) A Directory of Impact Assessment Guidelines (2nd edn). London: International Institute for Environment and Development.
The New Zealand Ministry of the Environment has a range of information on recent publications and can be ordered on line through this link. http://www.mfe.govt.nz
SIA Procedures for International Aid and Donor Organizations and Institutions
Access to Asian Development Bank materials on SIA, rural appraisal and gender analysis go to http://www.adb.org/Documents/Handbooks/Social_Dimensions/default.asp. Search for relevant publications as there are many on gender issues in impact assessment. The above website will take you to the 2007 version of the Handbook for Social Analysis—in draft form. (One of the early guide books and still one of the best on poverty and gender analysis in SIA. They include a selection of SIA measures as well as a bit of rationale for each. Great on the linkage between environmental change and social impacts. Like the World Bank they use the term social analysis, which they point out is the same as SIA.) Go directly to ADB publications at http://www.adb.org/Publications/default.asp Checklists are at: www.adb.org/gender/checklists.asp For topics such as Education, Agriculture, Water supply and sanitation, Urban development and housing. Download Bank policy and also examples of terms of reference for a gender specialist.
-CIESIN. The Information Cooperative provides easy access to major data archives and resource centers that electronically share their catalog information (metadata) and actual data. It links well-established information centers and agencies from around the world, including the United Nations and many non-governmental organizations. Includes census data. GIS data and metadata sources. http://www.ciesin.org/IC/info-home.html
The World Bank homepage is http://www.worldbank.org or go to their main site, and click publications - or go directly there at http://www.publications.worldbank.org/html/
World Bank Social Analysis Source book (no date) provides a conceptual framework for social analysis and describes how task teams can incorporate its principles into project design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. The website below summarizes their social analysis activity. http://www.worldbank.org/socialanalysisourcebook/ World Bank 1991. Environmental Assessment Sourcebook :Policies, Procedures and Cross Sectoral Issues. Volume 1. Environment Department. World Bank Technical Paper Number 139. World Bank, Washington, DC.
For World Bank publications go to http://www.worldbank.org/reference/ Included are access to publications on SIA, EIA and gender analysis. There are many and the data base is searchable by country. Punch in “Social Analysis” to get to SIA related publications.
For World Bank procedures on poverty and social impact analysis go to http://www.worldbank.org/psia The site also includes learning modules that are heavy in economic orientation and presentation. Not much social science.
Francis, Paul and Susan Jacobs. 1997. Institutionalizing Social Analysis at the World Bank. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 19:341-357.
The website of the International Institute for Environment and Development is http://www.iied.org Type in social impact assessment in the search facility on the home page to view a wide range of publications and bibliographies relating to gender and participation and social impact studies of mining.
Wikipedia on line may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_impact_assessment There is a limited amount of information about the field of social impact assessment. Lots of links including, strangely, the one to the Rabel Burdge website. New SIA references will be added here and first shown under the SIA News section. If you have citations that should be added to this list, let Rabel know by clicking on the Contact Rabel Burdge button below.
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