Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management InstitutionsThis book is the first significant international attempt to outline and analyze how social assessment has been integrated within natural resource management institutions to date. In doing so, it focuses on contemporary Australian and New Zealand experiences, and relates these back to the international context. Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutionsprovides practical guidance for a wide range of planners, managers and stakeholders striving for better integration of social issues. The lessons derived are equally relevant to national, provincial, regional and local governance structures, international agencies, corporations, and community-based non-government organizations. |
Contents
Promise | 3 |
The international institutionalisation of social impact assessment | 15 |
Institutionalising social assessment at the World Bank | 24 |
The post | 37 |
Social assessment lessons from | 51 |
Social assessment in New Zealand resource management | 61 |
The institutional basis for social assessment | 74 |
Social assessment and resource management at the Australian federal | 93 |
Institutionalising social impact assessment in Australian local | 176 |
Social impact assessment at the local government level in New South | 189 |
The Australian urban water industry | 203 |
Social assessment in the tourism sector in New Zealand | 218 |
Social impact | 231 |
Social impact assessment in New Zealand natural resource | 242 |
Social assessment in the Australian Forest Sector | 255 |
Aboriginal versus | 266 |
The Social Impact | 125 |
necessity? | 136 |
Social impact assessment in the Australian Capital Territory | 165 |
Social assessment natural resource institutions and | 283 |
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal agencies ANZECC approach assessment process Australia Australian Capital Territory biophysical Brisbane City Council Burdge Commonwealth consultation context cultural decision-making decisions definition of environment Department development assessment effects ensure Environment Protection environmental assessment Environmental Impact Assessment environmental justice environmental management Environmental Planning example forest framework groups guidelines Gungahlin Town Centre implementation indigenous institutional institutionalisation of social institutionalising social assessment integrated involved land Lane legislation monitoring natural resource management organisations outcomes participatory planners planning and development political potential practitioners procedures programme proposals psychological public participation Queensland recognised regional resource development Resource Management Act response role sector SIA practice significant social assessment practice Social Impact Assessment Social Impact Unit social issues social planning Social Policy Directorate social science South Wales stakeholders strategies sustainable Sydney Water tourism urban water industry Western Australia World Bank Zealand