Social Impact Assessment


Source: Rabel J. Burdge, Frank Vanclay, C. Nicholas Taylor,

IAIA Key Citations Series No. 1, Rita R. Hamm, Editor,

Updated March, 2004

Barrow, C. J. (2000). Social Impact Assessment: An Introduction. London: Arnold. ISBN: 0-340742186
Becker, Henk A. (1997). Social Impact Assessment: Method and Experience in Europe, North America, and Developing World. UCL Press Limited, London. ISBN: 1-85728-347-3 PB
Becker, Henk A. and Frank Vanclay. (eds.). (2003). The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment. Cheltenham, Colchester, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN: 1 84064 935 6
Burdge, Rabel J. (2004). A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment: 3rd Edition (Social Ecology Press, PO Box 620863, Middleton WI 53562) ISBN 0-941042-17-0. www.dog-eared.com/socialecologypress/
Burdge, Rabel J. (2004). The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment. (Social Ecology Press, PO Box 620863, Middleton, WI 53562) ISBN 0-941042-35-9. www.dog-eared.com/socialecologypress/
Burdge, Rabel J. Guest Editor. (2003). The Practice of Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 21(2&3): 84-234 (two issues)

Dale, Allan, Nick Taylor and Marcus Lane, (eds.) (2001). Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions. CSIRO Publishing. PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria, 3066 Australia. 312 pp. ISBN: 0 643 06558X go to www.publish.csiro.au/books/
Finsterbusch, K. (1995). In Praise of SIA: A Personal Review of the Field of Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment, 13(3): 229-252.
Freudenburg, William R. (1986). Social Impact Assessment. Annual Review of Sociology, 12:451-478.
Gramling, Robert and William R. Freudenburg. (1992). Opportunity-Threat, Development, and Adaptation: Toward a Comprehensive Framework for Social Impact Assessment. Rural Sociology, 57: 216-234.
Goldman, Laurence R. (ed.) (2000). Social Impact Analysis: An Applied Anthropology Manual. London: Berg, Oxford.
Goodrich, Colin G. and C. Nicholas Taylor, eds. (1995). Special Issue on Social Impact Assessment. Project Appraisal, 10(3):141-208.
Interorganizational Committee on Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment (IOCPG). (2003). U. S. Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 21(3):233-270. May be accessed on the IAIA homepage.
Lockie, Stewart F. (2001). SIA in Review: Setting the Agenda for Impact Assessment in the 21st Century. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 19(4):277-287.
O’Faircheallaigh, Ciaran. (1999). Making Social Impact Assessment Count: A Negotiation-Based Approach for Indigenous People. Society and Natural Resources, 12(1):63-80.
Rickson, Roy E. Marcus Lane, Mark Lynch-Blosse, John Western. (1995). Community, Environment, and Development: Social Impact Assessment in Resource-Dependent Communities. Impact Assessment, 13:347-386..
Slootweg, R., Vanclay, F. and van Schooten, M. (2001). Function evaluation as a framework for the integration of social and environmental impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 19(1):19-28.
Taylor, Nicholas C, Hobson Bryan and Colin G. Goodrich. (2004). Social Assessment: Theory, Process and Techniques. (Social Ecology Press, PO Box 620863, Middleton, WI 53562) ISBN: 0-941042-37-5. www.dog-eared.com/socialecologypress/
Vanclay, Frank. (2002). Social Impact Assessment. in M. Tolba, ed. Responding to Environmental Change Volume 4 of Encyclopedia of Environmental Change. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, Sussex, UK. pp: 387-393.
Vanclay, Frank. (2002). Conceptualising Social Impacts. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 22(3):183-211.
Vanclay, Frank and the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). (2003). International Principles for Social Impact Assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 21(1):5-11.
Peer reviewed journals
American Anthropologist www.aaanet.org
Australian Geographical Studies go to www.iag.org.au
Environmental Impact Assessment Review go to Editor ejohnson@ecosite.co.uk or www.elsevier.com/homepage/
Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (formerly Impact Assessment Bulletin, shortened to Impact Assessment and combined with Project Appraisal in 1998).  editor.iapa@man.ac.uk or the IAIA website.
Rural Sociology www.ruralsociology.org
Society and Natural Resources go to editor snr@hass.usu.edu sample copy: snr@tandfpa.com
Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management w.sheate@ic.ac.uk
Journal of Environmental Management and Planning j.f.benson@newcastle.ac.uk
Websites
the International Association for Impact Assessment, organized in 1981 to bring together researchers, government employees, practitioners, and users of all types of impact assessment. Provides access to the SIA Listserve, details for purchasing Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal and links to other organizations.
Access to a searchable SIA bibliography with provision for uploading and adding new references.

US Council on Environmental Quality has NEPA guidance, regulations, scoping procedures, and links to other US Federal agencies environmental programs,
EIA Centre, University of Manchester with material on consultation and public participation and other related items.
http://www.worldbank.org/ Access to World Bank publications on SIA and gender analysis.
http://www.adb.org/ Access to Asian Development Bank materials on SIA, rural appraisal and gender analysis.

Last Updated: October 29, 2015