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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, 2007!
(IAIA'2007) Seoul, Korea, May 31-June 3, 2007.
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List of upcoming professional and scholarly
meeting in the area of
social impact assessment
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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.
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.
News of other happenings in the field of
Social Impact Assessment (as available)
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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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