Showing papers on "Social impact assessment published in 1979"

Use of Delphi Methodology to Assess Goals and Social Impacts of a Watershed Project

Abstract: The major objective is to report the way the Delphi methodology was employed in an environmental study aimed at identifying and ranking goals and social impacts of Cooper Dam and Reservoir Project located in the East Texas area. The Delphi procedures were modified to accommodate the nature of social field under study. Data were collected through personal interviews from twenty-seven respondents representing the government agency responsible for planning the Project and three communities geographically contiguous to the project. The respondents were provided an initial list of the Project's goals and social impacts and were asked to rank them in terms of degree of importance and to add to the list other goals and impacts that they would consider necessary. Respondents were interviewed in two successive rounds. Data show that on the whole the Delphi procedures were helpful in action analysis of the Project by identifying and ranking its goals and social impacts in terms of selected criteria.

Policy, Social Policy, and Family Policy: Concepts, Concerns, and Analytic Tools*

Abstract: Although the concept of family policy is ill defined, ambiguous, and emotionally laden, many are advocating efforts to examine the impact of public policies on families. This paper seeks to examine family policy and faimilv impact analysis in relation to concepts such as policy, in general, policy analysis, social policy, social policy analysis, and social impact assessment. It is an attempt to arrive at definitional clarity with respect to each, and thereby contribute to the developing conceptualization of family policy and family impact analysis. The paper concludes by suggesting that faimily impact analysis may be able to facilitate goal consensus regarding familv policy, and thereby contribute to its formulation, i(fsuch formulation is indeed desirable.