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Provides the latest call for abstract deadlines for professional meetings, an updated list of meetings and conferences, recent SIA publications and other news of happenings in SIA
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Call for Abstracts for participation in professional meetings

    (updated on a monthly basis)

    NEW: Call for Abstracts for the Social Impact Assessment Stream for the International Association for Impact Assessment--Deadline for Abstracts January 31, 2009!

        (IAIA'2009) Accra  International Conference Center, Accra, Ghana ,17-22 May, 2009. Click Here or go to www.iaia.org

List of upcoming professional and scholarly meeting in the area of

    social impact assessment

     Click here to see the updated list of coming meetings and conferences that have some SIA content

Other meetings of interest to SIA practitioners (as available)
 

Recent publications added to the SIA bibliography section (as available)

Morrison-Saunders, Angus and Jos Arts. Guest Editors. 2005. Special Issue on EIA Follow-up. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 23 (3) entire issue.

Becker, D. R., C. C. Harris, E. A. Nielsen and W. J. McLaughlin. 2004. A Comparison of a Technical and Participatory Application of Social Impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 22(3): 177-189.

Becker, D. R., C. C. Harris, W. J. McLaughlin and E. A. Nielsen. 2003. A Participatory Approach to Social Impact Assessment: The Interactive Community Forum. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 23 (4):  367-382.

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.

Vanclay, Frank. 2004. The Triple Bottom Line and Impact Assessment: How Do TBL, EIA, SIA, SEA and EMS Relate to Each Other? Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 6(3): 265-288.

Appiah-Opaku, Seth. 2005. The Need for Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment: The Case of Ghana. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, NY, 176 pp. $99.95, ISBN: 0-7734-6151-5. www.mellenpress.com

Davies, Ruth. 2004. The Social Impact of Activity Centres. Australian Planner. 41(3) 35-37.

Sairinen, Rauno. 2004. Assessing Social Impacts of Urban Land-use Plans: From Theory to Practice. Boreal Env. Res. 9: 509-517.

Vantanen, Ari  and Mika Marttunen. 2005. Public Involvement in Multi-objective Water Level Regulation Development Projects:  Evaluating the Applicability of Public Involvement Methods. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 25 (3), 281-304.

Jacquet, Jeffrey. 2009. Energy Boomtowns and Natural Gas: Implications for Marcellus Shale Local Governments and Rural Communities.  NERCRD Rural Development Paper No. 43, 63pp. Accessed April 2009 at  http://nercrd.psu.edu/Publications/rdppapers/rdp43.pdf 

News of other happenings in the field of Social Impact Assessment (as available)

+ PROFILES OF AMERICA

Profiles of America: Demographic Data and Graphic Builder, uses interactive tools to create maps, tables, and charts that display information on demographic trends, industrial structure, and the economic well-being of rural and urban communities. The program allows users to analyze rural and urban differences at the national, State, and county levels and provides useful information to community leaders, Federal officials, and researchers.

Released Tuesday, November 2, 2004
See http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/ProfilesOfAmerica/

 

+ For statistical assessment projects in Canada go to Statistics Canada website: www.statcan.ca/start.html

+ Charlotte Benson and John Twigg December 2004. Measuring Mitigation. Methodologies for Assessing Natural Hazard Risks and the Net Benefits of Mitigation--a Scoping Study. Geneva: Provention Consortium. For a copy write provention@ifrc.org or go on line www.proventionconsortium.org/projects/methodology_assess.htm

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