Social Impact Assessment
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Rabel J. Burdge is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University in Bellingham, where he taught courses on environmental sociology and social impact assessment from 1996-2004. § He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he held tenure appointments from 1976 to 1996 in the Institute for Environmental Studies and the Departments of Agricultural Economics (Rural Sociology), Leisure Studies (Parks and Recreation) and Urban and Regional Planning. § Educated at Penn State (Ph.D.) and Ohio State Universities (B.S. and M.S.), Burdge has also served on the faculties of the University of Kentucky (Lexington), 1968-1976; University of Washington (Seattle) 1974; and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, 1966-68 (on active military duty with the rank of Captain). § Since 1986 he has been an Honorary Professor in the School of Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia where he received the visiting scholar award. In 1984 he was a Resident Professor, Department of Western Sociology, University of Wageningen, the Agricultural University of The Netherlands. Burdge spent the winter and spring terms of 2002 as a Visiting Professor in the School of Planning and Landscape and the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Centre, University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. § In 2003, Burdge edited a double issue of the international journal, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal Volume 21 (2&3) titled, “The Practice of Social Impact Assessment” and completed the 3rd edition of two textbooks: The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social impact Assessment and A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment, both published in 2004 by the Social Ecology Press of Middleton, Wisconsin. § He has written over 300 articles, books and papers on social change in rural communities, natural resource and environmental issues, needs assessment surveys, the use of public involvement in the resource decision making process, the social and economic impacts of development projects, the sitting of hazardous and conventional waste facilities as well as natural resource recreation management. § From 1994-2000 Burdge was Executive Director, Treasurer and Editor of The Rural Sociologist for the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). He was the 1988 recipient of the RSS Natural Resources Research Award for contributions to the sociology of natural resources. In August of 1996, he was named Distinguished Rural Sociologist, the highest honor given by the Rural Sociological Society. § In 1990 he was elected the President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and in 1994 received from IAIA the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Award for outstanding contributions to the field of impact assessment. § Recent consultancies include: 2001--preparation of the SIA manual for the Bureau of Reclamation, US Department of Interior; 2002--international expert for UNEP-Malaysia on the preparation of SIA guidelines; and 2003--preparation of Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment for the US National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA). In 2004 he gave workshops on social impact assessment for the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), the International Association for Society and Natural Resources (IASNR) where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Rural Sociological Society (RSS).
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Burdge was recently appointed to a
four year term (2003-06) on the Whatcom County (State of Washington) Planning
Commission.
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