Abstract Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) have played an increasingly important role in the
conduct of planned interventions, providing proponents the capacity to assess and manage …

Definitions of and judgments regarding effectiveness in social impact assessment (SIA)
depend on how the purposes of SIA are understood. They are defined differently by various …

In recent years the need to enhance public participation in Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA), and the efficacy of alternative mechanisms in achieving this goal, have …

Internationally, high head diversion small hydropower is being developed in mountainous
regions. In contrast to the history of large reservoir hydropower's well-documented social …

The international movement toward recognition of indigenous rights over the past thirty
years has created a number of complex and compelling issues in planning for the use of …

With the development of the Internet, social networking sites have empowered the public to
directly express their views about social issues and hence contribute to social change. As a …

The fields of Environmental Conflict Management (ECM), Environmental Conflict Resolution
(ECR), and Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA) have become well established; …

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and
diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to …

Offers solutions and best practices to respond to recurrent problems and contemporary
challenges in the field Since the publication of the first edition of Environmental Impact …

Traditional economic activities, lifestyles and customs of many indigenous peoples in the
Russian North, such as reindeer herding, hunting and fishing, are closely linked to quality of …