Handbook of Social Impact Assessment and Management

Edited by Frank Vanclay, Professor of Cultural Geography, Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands and Ana Maria Esteves, Director, Community Insights Group, the Netherlands; Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Contents

Prefacexix
PART ITHE CONTEXT IN WHICH SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OPERATES
1Setting the scene for good social impact assessment and management2
Frank Vanclay and Ana Maria Esteves
2National legal frameworks for social impact assessment and management16
Vera Ogorodnikova, Francesco Tricoli, Ana Maria Esteves and Satoshi Ishihara
3Certification of social impact assessment practitioners32
Rachel Maas and Sheridan Coakes

PART IIEXAMPLES FROM DIFFERENT SECTORS
4The social impacts of dams and hydropower51
Doug Smith
5The use of social impact assessment in transport projects67
Lara Katharine Mottee
6The use of social impact assessment in mining projects81
Nicholas Bainton and John Burton
7The use of social impact assessment in agricultural projects requiring
large-scale land acquisition97
Piers Gillespie

PART III SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT FOR DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS
8Social impact assessment from the perspective of project proponents115
Ilse Aucamp
9Social impact assessment as used by international financial institutions129
Reidar Kvam
10Social impact assessment for project-affected communities147
Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh
11Social impact assessment for project regulatory processes159
Richard Parsons

PART IV SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT AT
DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE PROJECT CYCLE
12 Application of social impact assessment in planning a project: from
concept to approvals 179
C. Nicholas Taylor and Mike Mackay
13 Application of social impact assessment in project construction 197
C. Nicholas Taylor and Jessica Grinter
14 Application of social impact assessment during project operation and closure 217
Mike Mackay and C. Nicholas Taylor

PART V CORE CONCEPTS IN SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
AND MANAGEMENT
15 Human rights and due diligence 231
Kendyl Salcito
16 Gender, intersectionality and Indigenous rights in social impact assessment 247
Dawn Hoogeveen and We’es Tes Sandra Martin Harris
17 Vulnerable people in the context of social impact assessment and management 259
Jeroen de Zeeuw and Angela Reeman
18 Psychosocial impacts 275
Michael R. Edelstein and Frank Vanclay
19 Understanding stakeholders and their influence 293
Robert G. Boutilier
20 Community engagement, public participation and social impact assessment 309
Tanya Burdett
21 Rethinking social conflict in social impact assessment 326
Alex Cisneros Menchaca
22 The assessment and management of community health, safety and
security issues in social impact assessment 342
Janis Shandro
23 Social impacts of land acquisition, resettlement and restrictions on land use 356
Eddie Smyth and Frank Vanclay
24 Livelihoods and social impact assessment 378
Ana Maria Esteves, Clotilde Gouley, Alexandra Maurtua Konstantinidis and
Benjamin Carroll
25 Integrating cultural heritage into social impact assessment 402
Christopher R. Polglase
26Managing influx: project-induced in-migration413
Robert Gerrits
27Benefit sharing and enhancing outcomes for project-affected communities427
Frank Vanclay
28Local content in the context of social impact assessment and management445
Fitsum S. Weldegiorgis and Evelyn Dietsche

PART VI METHODS AND TOOLS FOR SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
29 Social research methods for project social impact assessment
Sheridan Coakes and Jessica Anagnostaras
30 The need for ethnographic methods in impact assessment
Philippe Hanna, Annaclaudia Martini and Esther Jean Langdon
31 Trauma-informed impact assessment
Somia Sadiq
32 Visual tools in social impact assessment: issues of perception, communication, and ethical dilemmas
Ana Roque de Oliveira 501
33 Immersive technologies: new ways to visualise a possible future world
José Corraliza Miranda 518
34 Building connections between impact and benefit agreements and environmental and social impact assessment
Ginger Gibson and Alistair MacDonald 532
35 Community visioning
Munyaradzi Chitakira 548
36 Attributing significance to social impacts
Marielle Rowan 563
37 Monitoring for the adaptive management of social impacts
Nigel Rossouw and Liza van der Merwe 577
Index 598