Social assessment provides a process for research, planning, and management of change arising from projects, programs, and policies. Applied both to the design and implementation of changes causing social effects, the process is firmly established internationally as an integral component of environmental assessments and decision making. Application to projects ranges from community-level projects to large infrastructional and industrial ones. Strategic application of social assessment also occurs in the development and implementation of programs and policies. The authors have practiced widely in the field of social assessment and held training courses and workshops on social assessments in many countries, for multi-lateral organizations, public agencies, industry private consultants, academics, and non-government organizations. This text describes social assessment theory, processes, and common techniques, as developed from the authors' international practice and training sessions. It will be of value to students and practitioners with interests and responsibilities in determining and managing social consequences of projects, programs, and policies affecting natural resources and the human environment.

Social Assessment: Theory, Process, and Techniques (Volume 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Bryan, C. Hobson

Sociology

Society and Natural Resources Press

Society and Natural Resources: A Summary of Knowledge (Society and Natural Resources Book Series)

Social Sciences

This Social Impact Assessment textbook provides the reader with details on the background and development of the SIA concept to include the methods, guidelines and principles for conducting an actual Social Impact Assessment. These sections are followed by actual SIA case studies to include the use of public involvement in the SIA process. The text concludes with the application of SIA outside the United States and international principles for doing Social Impact Assessment.

The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment

Burdge, Rabel J.

This provocative investigation draws from diverse sources not usually combined in sociological synthesis (such as Pleistocene geography, literary criticism, biology, and chemistry). The analysis examines the social consequences of man-environment interactions under a variety of conditions and includes such topics as the discovery of the environmental crisis; time, habitat and social structure; vocabularies of nature; rhetorical uses of nature; democracy and conservation; frontiers, abundance, and rationality; and the end of normality.

Daydreams and Nightmares: A Sociological Essay on the American Environment

Burch Jr., William R.

Rural Sociology and the Environment clearly and carefully illustrates the evolution of natural resource sociology and social science as a distinct field of study. Well before "social-ecological systems" became a popular concept in academic literature broadly, Donald R. Field and William R. Burch, Jr. co-authored this seminal text on what they call "social ecology." In this examination, these authors explore the evolving concepts of the environment in Rural Sociology during the 20th century from "dominion over nature" to "expanding the domain of nature" to "nature as a partner," which reflects a broader recognition of human dependence on environmental systems. One important contribution of this text is the revelation that the contemporary recognition of environmental service values for people emerges in part from a rigorous tradition of scholarship in Rural Sociology.

Rural Sociology and the Environment

Field, Donald R.

The Community in Rural America by Kenneth P. Wilkinson remains one of most significant texts on the interactive dynamics of U.S. communities written in the past 50 years. Originally published in 1991, Wilkinson carefully synthesizes the most important contributions to Community Sociology from the 20th century, which had redefined the community phenomenon as a "field of interaction" located in a local population, before expanding upon the concept of the Community Field to address community well-being and development in the "turbulent environment of rural America in the 1990s." The book remains as helpful to scholars interested in community today as when it was originally published due in part to Wilkinson's clear and concise articulation of these important concepts.

The Community in Rural America

Wilkinson, Kenneth P.

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