This article reviews the literature and practice of social impact assessment (SIA) to address
some of the perennial questions faced by all fields of impact assessment. What scope is …

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 …

Mining companies are faced with growing societal demands that a sufficient portion of the
benefits from mining should flow to local communities to ensure they are adequately …

The transformation in the structure of the world mining industry over the last decade has
opened up enormous new regions for mineral exploration and development by transnational …

The Interactive Community Forum is a method of social impact assessment that seeks
community members' judgments of social impacts resulting from project alternatives in an …

Numerous national parks have been established worldwide to protect nature, but this has
not been without social consequences for neighbouring communities. Since the social and …

Drawing on the body of knowledge of social impact research, this article offers the rationale,
methodology and results of the social impact of the junior component of the Australia-South …

The literature specialized in Social Impact Assessment (SIA) concurs that there is still much
work to do in the discussion and thorough grounding of its theories and conceptual bases …

Results of independent applications of a technical and a participatory approach to SIA are
compared for an assessment of impacts of the proposed removal of hydroelectric dams to …

In the two decades since Alexander Lockhart's seminal article on the insider–outsider
dialectic in native socioeconomic development, a great deal of change has occurred in the …