Incorporating social concerns in environmental impact assessments

Conference · Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:7160371

Wolfe, A K

Social impact assessments most often focus on the population-driven impacts of projects. Such impacts may be insignificant when compared with social structural impacts of complex, controversial projects. This set of impacts includes social disruption, social group formation, and stigma effects. The National Environmental Policy Act does not explicitly call for assessment of, and assessors often are reluctant to address, these complex issues. This paper discusses why such impacts are critical to assess and gives examples of how they have been incorporated into environmental assessment documents. 6 refs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 7160371
• Report Number(s): CONF-9003123-1; ON: DE90009231
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1990 international meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, York (UK), 28 Mar - 1 Apr 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GOVERNMENT POLICIES
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