A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment

Burdge, Rabel J.

ISBN 10: 0941042170 / ISBN 13: 9780941042178

Published by Dog Eared Pub (edition Revised), 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment
• Publisher: Dog Eared Pub (edition Revised)
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941042170
• ISBN 13: 9780941042178
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition: Revised.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The Guide is a tool for practitioners at all levels —social scientists, agency employees, community leaders, volunteers—to complete social impact assessments (SIA’s) efficiently and effectively. The Guide is a how-to manual that provides the users with a step-by-step process easily followed by persons with minimal social science training. The Guide is organized into three sections:

• Chapters 1-6 provides the background, a short history, the conceptual model, the SIA scoping process and an explanation as to how to obtain data to measure SIA variables.

• Chapters 7-11 correspond to the five categories of SIA variables--population change, community and institutional arrangements, communities in transition, individual and family impacts and community infrastructure needs.

• Chapters 12-13 provide worksheets for summarizing SIA variables, and how resulting data may be used in the SIA mitigation/enhancement process.

About the Author

Rabel J. Burdge is professor of sociology and environmental studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham and professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), he is now devoting time to workshops and consultation in the field of SIA and public involvement.