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US principles and guidelines

Principles and guidelines for social impact assessment in the USA : The Interorganizational Committee on Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment

Pages 231-250 | Published online: 20 Feb 2012

Social impact assessment bibliography

Textbooks and guides to SIA

  • Branch , Kristi , Hooper , Douglas A. , Thompson , James and Creighton , James C. 1984 . Guide to Social Impact Assessment , Boulder , CO : Westview Press . ISBN 0–86531-717–8
  • Burdge , Rabel J. 1999 . A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment: Revised Edition , Middleton , WI : Social Ecology Press . ISBN 0–941042-17–0
  • IOCGP, Interorganizational Committee on Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment . 1993 . Guidelines and Principles for Social Impact Assessment , 107 – 152 . US Department of Commerce NOAA . Tech Memo NMFS-F/SPO-16, reprinted in Impact Assessment, 12(2), 1994
  • Taylor , Nicholas C. , Bryan , Hobson and Goodrich , Colin . 1995 . Social Assessment: Theory, Process and Techniques , Riccarton, Christ-church , , New Zealand : Taylor Baines and Associates, PO Box 8620 . ISBN 0–473-03245–7

Regulations, content and administrative procedures

  • Berger , Thomas R. 1983 . “Resources, development, and human values” . Impact Assessment Bulletin , 2 ( 2 ) : 129 – 147 .
  • CEQ, Council on Environmental Quality . 1986 . Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (40 CFR 1500–1508) , Washington , D.C. : Government Printing Office .
  • CEQ, Council on Environmental Quality . 1997a . Environmental Justice: Guidance Under the National Environmental Policy Act , Washington , D.C. : Office of the President .
  • CEQ, Council on Environmental Quality . 1997b . Cumulative Effects Handbook available at http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/nepanet.htm
  • Executive Office of the President of the United States . 1994 . “Executive Order 12898: federal actions to address environmental justice in minority populations and low-income populations” . Federal Register , 59 : 7629 et seq.
  • Llewellyn , Lynn G. and Freudenburg , William R. 1990 . “Legal requirements for social impact assessments: assessing the social science fallout from Three Mile Island” . Society and Natural Resources , 2 ( 3 ) : 193 – 208 .
  • NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act . 1970 . 4321 – 4347 . Public Law 91190:852–859.42, U.S.C and as amended Public Law 94–52 and 94–83 42 U.S.C.

United States federal agencies social assessment procedures (selected)

  • McCold , L. N. and Saulsbury , J. W. 1998 . “Defining the no-action alternative for National Environmental Policy Act analysis of continuing actions” . Environmental Impact Assessment Review , 18 : 353 – 370 .
  • US Bureau of Reclamation (USDI) . 2002 . Social Analysis Manuel Volume I: Manager's Guide to Using Social Analysis; Volume II Social Analyst's Guide to Doing Social Analysis , Resource Management and Planning Group . Technical Service Center, Denver Federal Center D-8580, Bldg. 67. Denver, CO 80225–0007
  • US Forest Service . 1982 . “Guidelines for economic and social analysis of programs, resource plans, and projects: final policy” . Federal Register , 47 ( 80 ) : 17940 – 17954 . 26 April
  • US Department of Transportation . 1996 . “FHWA-PD-96–036 HEP-30/8–96 (10M)P: Community impact assessment — a quick reference for transportation” September, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/nepa/cia.htm
  • US Environmental Protection Agency . 2002 . Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place Publication No EPA 842-B-01–003, November (for copies call 800–490-9198 or 513–489-8190)

State-of-the-art and literature reviews

  • Burdge , Rabel J. 2002 . “Why is social impact assessment the orphan of the assessment process?” . Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , 20 ( 1 ) : 3 – 9 . March
  • Carley , Michael J. 1984 . Social Impact Assessment: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Literature , Boulder , CO : Westview Press . ISBN 0–86531-529–9
  • Finsterbusch , K. 1995 . “In praise of SIA: a personal review of the field of social impact assessment” . Impact Assessment , 13 ( 3 ) : 229 – 252 .
  • Lockie , Stuart F. 2001 . “SIA in review: setting the agenda for impact assessment in the 21st century” . Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , 19 ( 4 ) : 277 – 287 .

Conceptual guidelines for social impact assessment

  • Burdge , Rabel J. 1998 . A Conceptual Approach to Social Impact Assessment: Revised Edition Collection of Writings by Rabel J Burdge and Colleagues , Middleton , WI : Social Ecology Press . ISBN 0–941042-16–2
  • Freudenburg , William R. and Gramling , Robert . 1992 . “Community impacts of technological change: toward a longitudinal perspective” . Social Forces , 70 ( 4 ) : 937 – 955 .
  • Freudenburg , William R. and Pastor , Susan K. 1992 . “Public responses to technological risks: toward a sociological perspective” . Sociological Quarterly , 33 ( 3 ) : 389 – 412 .
  • Freudenburg , William R. and Keating , Kenneth M. 1985 . “Applying sociology to policy: social science and the environmental impact statement” . Rural Sociology , 50 ( 4 ) : 578 – 605 .
  • Gramling , Robert and Freudenburg , William R. 1992 . “Opportunity-threat, development, and adaptation: toward a comprehensive framework for social impact assessment” . Rural Sociology , 57 ( 2 ) : 216 – 234 .
  • Rickson , Roy E. , Burdge , Rabel J. and Armour , Audrey . 1990 . “Integrating impact assessment into the planning process: international perspectives and experience” . Impact Assessment Bulletin , 8 ( 1/2 ) : 357
  • Slootweg , R. , Vanclay , F. and Schooten , M. van . 20010 . “Function evaluation as a framework for the integration of social and environmental impact assessment” . Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , 19 ( 1 ) : 19 – 28 .

SIA methodology

  • Conyers , Diane . 1993 . Guidelines on Social Analysis for Rural Area Development Planning , Rome : FAO . Training Manuel No 73) ISBN 92–5-103439–7
  • Chambers , R. 1994 . “The origins and practice of participatory rural appraisal” . World Development , 22 ( 7 ) : 953 – 969 . July
  • Dale , Allan , Nicholas Taylor , C. and Lane , Marcus . 2001 . Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions , Victoria , , Australia : CSIRO Publishing . ISBN 0–643-06558X or go to www.publish.csiro.au/books/
  • Denq , Furjen and Altenhofel , June . 1997 . “Social impact assessments conducted by federal agencies: an evaluation” . Impact Assessment , 15 : 209 – 231 .
  • Finsterbusch , Kurt , Ingersol , J. and Llewellyn , Lynn . 1990 . Methods for Social Analysis in Developing Countries , Boulder , CO : Westview Press . ISBN 0–8337-829-X
  • Finsterbusch , Kurt , Llewellyn , Lynn G. and Wolf , C. P. 19830 . Social Impact Assessment Methods , Beverly Hills , CA : Sage . ISBN 0–8039-2142
  • Goodrich , Colin and Taylor , C. Nicholas . 1995 . “Special issue on social assessment” . Project Appraisal , 10 ( 3 ) : 141 – 196 . ISSN 0268–8867
  • King , Thomas F. 1998 . “How the anthropologists stole culture: a gap in American environmental impact assessment practice and how to fill it” . Environmental Impact Assessment Review , 18 : 117 – 134 .
  • Mulvihill , Peter R. and Jacobs , Peter . 1998 . “Using scoping as a design process” . Environmental Impact Assessment Review , 18 ( 1 ) : 350 – 370 .
  • O'Faircheallaigh , C. 1999 . “Making social impact assessment count: a negotiation-based approach for indigenous peoples” . Society and Natural Resources , 12 ( 1 ) : 63 – 80 .
  • Rickson , Roy E. , Hundloe , Tor , McDonald , Geoffrey T. and Burdge , Rabel J. 19900 . “Social impact of development: putting theory and methods into practice” . Environmental Impact Assessment Review , 10 ( 1/2 )
  • Stolp , A. Groen , W. 2002 . “Citizen values assessment: incorporating citizen's value judgments in environmental impact assessment” . Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , 20 ( 1 ) : 11 – 23 .

Research findings

  • Burnigham , K. 1995 . “Attitudes, accounts and impact assessment” . The Sociological Review , 43 ( 1 ) : 100 – 122 .
  • Burdge , Rabel J. 2003 . “The practice of social impact assessment” . Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , 21 ( 2&3 ) : 84 – 250 . June and September, two issues)
  • Cernea , Michael M. 1995 . Putting People First: Sociological Variables in Rural Development, , 2nd edition , New York : Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press .
  • Dixon , Mim . 19780 . What Happened to Fairbanks: the Effects of the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline on the Community of Fairbanks, Alaska , Boulder , CO : Westview Press . ISBN 0–89158-961–9
  • Freudenburg , William R. and Gramling , Robert . 1992 . “Community impacts of technological change: toward a longitudinal perspective” . Social Forces , 70 ( 4 ) : 937 – 955 .
  • Freudenburg , William R. and Gramling , Robert . 1994 . Oil in Troubled Waters: Perceptions, Politics and the Battle Over Offshore Drilling , Albany : State University Press of New York . ISBN 0–7914-1882–0
  • Freudenburg , William R. and Jones , Robert E. 1992 . “Criminal behavior and rapid community growth: examining the evidence” . Rural Sociology , 56 ( 4 ) : 619 – 645 .
  • Gramling , Robert and Freudenburg , William R. 1990 . “A closer look at ‘local control: communities, commodities, and the collapse of the coast” . Rural Sociology , 55 ( 4 ) : 541 – 558 .
  • Greider , Thomas and Garkovich , Lorraine . 1994 . “Symbolic landscapes: the social construction of nature and the environment” . Rural Sociology , 59 ( 1 ) : 1 – 24 .
  • Goldman , Laurence R. 2000 . Social Impact Analysis: An Applied Anthropology Manuel , Oxford : Berg .
  • Murdock , Steven H. , Krannich , Richard S. and Leistritz , F. Larry . 1999 . Hazardous Wastes in Rural America: Impacts Implications and Options for Rural Communities , Lanham Maryland : Rowman and Littlefield . ISBN 0–8476-9100–4
  • Smith , Michael D. , Krannich , Richard S. and Hunter , Lori M. 2001 . “Growth, decline, stability, and disruption: a longitudinal analysis of social well-being in four western rural communities” . Rural Sociology , 66 ( 3 ) : 425 – 450 .
  • Stoffle , Richard W. 1991 . “Risk perception mapping: using ethnography to define the locally affected population for a low-level radioactive waste storage facility in Michigan” . American Anthropologist , 93 ( 3 ) : 611 – 635 .
  • Stoffle , Richard W. and Arnold , Richard . 2003 . “Confronting the Angry Rock: American Indians’ situated risks from radioactivity” . Ethnos , 68 ( 2 ) : 230 – 248 .

Public involvement and social impact assessment

  • Howell , R. E. , Olsen , M. E. and Olsen , D. 1987 . Designing a Citizen Involvement Program , Corvallis , OR : Western Rural Development Center . WREP 105
  • O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West . 2000 . Reclaiming NEPAs Potential: Can Collaborative Processes Improve Environmental Decision Making? , Missoula , MT : O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, University of Montana . available from http://www.crmw.org/Our%20Products.asp?p=NEPA
  • Roberts , Richard . 1995 . “Public involvement: from consultation to participation” . In Environmental and Social Impact Assessment , Edited by: Vanclay , F. and Bronstein , D. 221 – 246 . Chichester : Wiley and Sons .
  • World Bank . 1996 . “Guidelines for using social assessment to support public involvement in World Bank-GEF projects” , Washington , D.C. : World Bank, Environmental Department, Global Environment Division .

Peer reviewed journals

Social impact assessment related websites

  • International Association for Impact Assessment was organized in 1980 to bring together researchers, government employees, practitioners, and users of all types of impact assessment www.iaia.org
  • International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) was established in 1990 to serve as a focal point for networking about public involvement activity and techniques. The journal is Interact: the Journal of Public Participation, published semi-annually www.pin.org/iap2.htm
  • National Association of Environmental Professionals was founded in 1975 for persons who work on a variety of environmental planning issues. They publish The Environmental Professional www.naep.org
  • US Council on Environmental Quality has NEPA guidance, regulations, scoping procedures, and links to other US Federal agencies environmental programs http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/nepanet.htm
  • US Department of Transportation web site on Community Impact Assessment is www.ciatrans.net. The Florida DOT/FHWA CIA website is www.ciatrans.net
  • Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has excellent links to sites in other organizations and countries, or write to CD_ROM Library, 200 Sacre Couer Blvd Hull, QC K1A 0H3, http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/index_e.htm alsohttp://founder.library.ualberta.ca/FTP/EN/Laws/Chap/C/
  • Australian EIA Network has information on environmental impact assessment (EIA) and its process within Australia http://www.environment.gov.au
  • New Zealand Ministry of the Environment has a range of information on recent publications http://www.mfe.govt.nz
  • www.socialimpactassessment.net,web site on social impact assessment maintained by Rabel Burdge. Includes updated SIA bibliographies, recent publications, workshops, training guides, job opportunities, conferences, ordering SIA publications, course outlines, consultation opportunities and links to other sites
  • Homepage of the EIA Centre at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom . See the Leaflet Series, Index of Leaflets http://www.art.man.ac.uk/eia/ElAc.htm

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