Social Assessment Manual: A Guide to the Preparation of the Social Well-Being Account for Planning Water Resource Projects

A Social Well-Being Account is the product of an assessment of the comparative beneficial and adverse social effects likely to occur as a result of implementing―or not implementing―a particular development plan. This volume establishes procedures for conducting research and analyzing data in order to make this assessment for water development plans

Stephen J. Fitzsimmons vice-president for social research development with Abt Associates Inc., has done extensive research in the areas of community theory and social research, delivery of human services, and water resources development. Lorrie I. Stuart has worked as an analyst on numerous Abt projects, among them a social impact assessment of the Tulatin Dam Project in Oregon. Peter C. Wolff is a project director with Abt Associates. His research includes a number of social impact analyses for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Transportation.