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Vanclay (2003) The International Principles for SIA ................................................................................ 2
Vanclay (2012) The potential application of Social Impact Assessment in integrated coastal zone
management (ICZM)................................................................................................................................ 5
Vanclay, F. 2017 Principles to assist in gaining a social licence to operate for green initiatives and
biodiversity projects. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 29, 48-56. ................................ 8
Boutrais 2011 “Pastoralism and protected areas in West and East Africa”, in Catherine Aubertin and
Estiennne Rodary (eds) Protected Areas, Sustainable Land?, Farnham & Burlington: Ashgate. .......... 10
Vanclay, F. 2017 Project induced displacement and resettlement: From impoverishment risks to an
opportunity for development?.............................................................................................................. 12
Vanclay 2002 Conceptualising social impacts, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 22(3), 183-
211. ........................................................................................................................................................ 16
Community engagement ....................................................................................................................... 20
,Vanclay (2003) The International Principles for SIA
In general, SIA = analysing, monitoring and managing the social consequences of development.
SIA should not be understood only as the task of predicting social impacts in an impact assessment
process. Primary purpose is to bring about a more sustainable and equitable biophysical and human
environment. Important features of this understanding of SIA are that:
1. The goal of impact assessment is to bring about a more ecologically, socio-culturally and
economically sustainable and equitable environment
2. The focus of concern of SIA is a proactive stance to development and better development
outcomes, not just the identification or amelioration of negative or unintended outcomes.
3. The methodology of SIA can be applied to a wide range of planned interventions
4. SIA contributes to the process of adaptive management of policies, programs, plans and
projects
5. SIA builds on local knowledge and utilises participatory processes to analyse the concerns of
interested and affected parties.
6. The good practice of SIA accepts that social, economic and biophysical impacts are inherently
and inextricably interconnected.
7. In order for the discipline of SIA to learn and grow, there must be analysis of the impacts that
occurred as a result of past activities.
8. While SIA is typically applied to planned interventions, the techniques of SIA can also be used to
consider the social impacts that derive from other types of events (disasters etc).
SIA is an overarching framework that embodies:
the evaluation of all impacts on humans and on all the ways in which people and communities
interact with their socio-cultural, economic and biophysical surroundings.
By identifying impacts in advance:
1 better decisions can be made about which interventions should proceed and how they should
proceed;
2 mitigation measures can be implemented to minimise the harm and maximise the benefits from
a specific planned intervention or related activity
Social impacts
Social impacts are changes to one or more of the following:
• people’s way of life
• their culture (shared beliefs, customs, values and language or dialect
• their community – its cohesion, stability, character, services and facilities;
• their political systems – the extent to which people are able to participate in decisions that
affect them
• their environment
• their health and wellbeing
• their personal and property rights
• their fears and aspirations
Activities comprising SIA
• Participating in the environmental design of the planned intervention
, • Identification of interested and affected peoples
• Facilitation and coordinates the participation of stakeholders
• Documenting and analysing local historical setting of the planned intervention so as to be able
to interpret responses to the intervention, and to assess cumulative impacts
• Collecting baseline data (social profiling) to allow evaluation and audit of the impact
assessment process and the planned intervention itself
• Giving a rich picture of the local cultural context
• Identifying and describing the activities which are likely to cause impacts (scoping)
• Predicting (or analyses) likely impacts and how different stakeholders are likely to respond
• Assisting, evaluating and selecting alternatives (including a no development)
• Assisting in site selection
• Recommending mitigation measures
• Assisting in the valuation process and provides suggestions about compensation
• Describing potential conflicts between stakeholders and advises on resolution processes
• Developing coping strategies for dealing with residual or non-mitigatable impacts
• Contributing to skill development and capacity building in the community
• Advising on appropriate institutional and coordination arrangements for all parties
• Assisting in devising and implementing monitoring and management programs
Core values of SIA
1. There are fundamental human rights that are shared equally across cultures, and by males and
females alike.
2. There is a right to have those fundamental human rights protected by the rule of law, with
justice applied equally and fairly to all, and available to all.
3. People have a right to live and work in an environment which is conducive to good health and
to a good quality of life and which enables the development of human and social potential.
4. Social dimensions of the environment – specifically but not exclusively peace, the quality of
social relationships, freedom from fear, and belongingness – are important aspects of people’s
health and quality of life.
5. People have a right to be involved in the decision making about the planned interventions that
will affect their lives.
6. Local knowledge and experience are valuable and can be used to enhance planned
interventions.
Principles
1. Respect for human rights should underpin all actions.
2. Promoting equity and democratisation should be the major driver of development planning, and
impacts on the worst-off members of society should be a major consideration in all assessment.
3. The existence of diversity between cultures, within cultures, and the diversity of stakeholder
interests need to be recognised and valued.
4. Decision making should be just, fair and transparent, and decision makers should be accountable
for their decisions.
5. Development projects should be broadly acceptable to the members of those communities likely
to benefit from, or be affected by, the planned intervention.
6. The opinions and views of experts should not be the sole consideration in decisions about
planned interventions.
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