Showing papers on "Social impact assessment published in 1987"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for using Habermas' pragmatistic approach to policy, which suggests heavy emphasis on use of SIA early in the policy process and on methods that emphasize impact identification and portrayal.
Abstract: Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is a method of policy analysis that offers great potential for integrating scientific policy analysis into a democratic political process. This potential has not been realized in large part because there has been no theoretical framework to guide SIA. In this paper I propose such a framework, using Habermas’(1970) pragmatistic approach to policy. The framework suggests heavy emphasis on use of SIA early in the policy process and on methods that emphasize impact identification and portrayal.
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TL;DR: Social impact assessment developed along with environmental impact assessment during the early 1970s as a methodological tool with which to better understand the consequences of environmental alteration and as an input to environmental impact statements as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: Social Impact Assessment (SIA) often fails to utilize appropriate techniques and theory to study ranchland communities as discussed by the authors, which is a problem in many ranch communities because they are vulnerable to widespread development which quickly modifies the economic and demographic characteristics and their form of interaction.
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TL;DR: This work states that an understanding of the role of social impact assessment in fishery conservation and management has hampered the development of social and cultural data bases that can be used to examine the distributional consequences of fishery management plans.
Abstract: Social impact assessment methodologies and models have been developed and applied to environmental resource areas other than fisheries. Social impact assessments determine the costs and benefits of proposed conservation and management plans and assist in designing and administering policy. Support for assessments in fisheries has lagged behind that in forestry and water resource management. The lack of an understanding of the role of social impact assessment in fishery conservation and management has hampered the development of social and cultural data bases that can be used to examine the distributional consequences of fishery management plans. An integrated assessment and evaluation process provides a coordinated system for determining the costs and benefits of policy implementation and project outcomes. Social assessments can be used to explore the historical, cultural, economic-ecological, and demographic impacts of management plans. Adequate social impact assessments require comparative data...
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