Description
This systematic, critical review of more than 600 recent publications in social impact assessment (SIA) and related fields is based on the authors' belief that SIA is more than an analytical technique--it is also a logical and timely response to our ever-growing need for more and better information to facilitate decision making in an increasingly c
Table of Contents
Preface -- Focus on Social Impact Assessment -- Social Impact Assessment: A Brief Description -- Policy Making, Planning, and Impact Assessment -- The Quantification of Social Information -- Overviews of Social Impact Assessment -- General Methodologies and Approaches to SIA -- Urban and Community Impact Assessment and Minority Groups -- Cumulative Impact Assessment -- The Monitoring of Impacts -- General Issues in Public Participation -- Studying Preferences in the SIA Process -- Communicating the Results of the SIA -- Boomtowns, New Towns, and Energy Development -- Case Studies -- Social Impact Assessment in an Interdisciplinary Perspective -- On Integration and Interdisciplinary Studies -- Cost-Benefit Analysis and Related Techniques -- SIA and Environmental Impact Assessment -- Environmental Perception and Landscape Preferences -- Social Forecasting: Technology Assessment and SIA -- Assessing Risk -- Decision Analysis -- Social Assessment in Developing Countries -- Social Assessment in Developing Countries -- Other Sources of Information -- Periodicals and Journals -- Other Bibliographies
