ENST3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Impact Assessment, Debt Management Plan, Local Economic Development
The values of native vegetation
• Direct economic benefits –Wildflowers
• Direct economic benefits –fuel
• Direct economic benefits –Forestry & wood products
• Direct economic benefits –Medicines - 1 in 4 drugs are based on a chemical compound originally
discovered in plants
Definition of environment
The Northern Territory
• Environmental Protec/on Authority Act 2012defines the environment as: environment– means all
aspects of the surroundings of humans, including the physical, biological, economic, cultural and
social aspects.
What is Social Impact Assessment?
• Focuses on impact of development proposals on people;
• Often part of EIA or can be separate process;
• SIA significant in developing countries –Division of World Bank deals with SIA
Definition of Social Impacts
• the consequences to human populations of any public or private actions-that alter the ways in
which people live, work, play, relate to one another, organize to meet their needs, and generally
cope as members of society. The term also includes cultural impacts involving changes to the norms,
values, and beliefs that guide and rationalize their cognition of themselves and their society.–
Interorganizational Committee on, G., and A. Principles for Social Impact. 1995. Guidelines and
principles for social impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 15 (1): 11-43
Types of social impacts –Ref IAIA principles
• people’s way of life –
• their culture –
• their community
• their political systems –
• their environment
• their health and wellbeing
• their personal and property rights
• their fears and aspirations –
Social impacts can be …(Draft NSW SIA guidelines)
• positive or negative; • tangible or intangible (i.e. perceived);
• direct,
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