Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions

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Csiro Publishing, 2001 - Business & Economics - 296 pages
This 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
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About the author (2001)

Allan Dale is a natural resource planner at CSIRO in Queensland, Australia and General Manager of Resource Policy in Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines. He was the first manager of Queensland's Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Unit from 1993 to 1996. Nick Taylor is a director of Taylor-Baines and Associates in Christchurch, New Zealand. He specialises in social assessment relating to natural resource management, including tourism development. He has been involved in the development of techniques for social assessment and conducts training courses in social assessment internationally. Marcus Lane is Assistant Professor of Environmental Planning in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research is concerned with the interaction of civil society and the state in environmental planning. In earlier work he has examined social impact assessment (SIA) for indigenous peoples in resource planning.

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