It is widely accepted that public participation must be a part of strategic environmental
assessment (SEA) procedures, and yet few studies have been conducted on the …

This book does an exceptional job in giving an understanding of change, complexity,
uncertainty and conflict as well as their linkages, including awareness of strategies, methods …

This book is intended for introductory courses in SIA within sociology, social policy, human
geography and political science at postgraduate level. Specialist postgraduate and …

The authors were involved in the development of a decision support system (DSS) to help
development agency staff determine when impact assessment was required in development …

Important impacts can emerge regarding biophysical, economic, social, political/legal,
cultural, and psychological aspects during the anticipation stage of a project, as confirmed …

Mega infrastructure investments currently feature as significant aspects in many of the
development agendas worldwide. Such projects are often deemed 'unsuccessful'because …

Relationships between social policy and human development are the subject of much
research and theorizing. The literature in this area, however, examines these issues strictly …

The main goal of this paper lies in the need to define an assessment methodology to search
for the feasibility of strategic programs aimed at achieving the urban sustainable …

This paper analyzes the impacts on a peasant community that occured three years after the
discovery of gold in Bombana Distric, South East Sulawesi, Indonesia. The mining activities …

Sustainability is the buzzword in the national agenda of almost all the countries, specifically
in terms of its three dimensions. The purpose of this research was to investigate the …