Measuring the social impact of natural resource policies

Book · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6481517

Burch, Jr, W R; DeLuca, D R

This book deals with the social dimensions of energy and natural resource systems. The authors feel it can contribute to decisions involving forestry, wildlife, grazing, minerals, and other natural resources. The focus of attention and the majority of their examples, though, are given over to the central fulcrum of all resource actions - energy. They attempt to provide basic information with a minimum of jargon, to aid students and people outside the social sciences interested in social impact analysis. At the same time, they hope to interest the practicing social scientist in their particular synthesis and ordering of basic findings. They believe that an engineer or other administrator of an environmental assessment study in consulting the book would get a better understanding of what social assessment can contribute to an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The book seeks to link applied needs of impact assessment to several bodies of well-developed theory and data; it should complement the excellent technical reports on measuring and modeling social responses to change. 316 references.

• OSTI ID: 6481517
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COMMUNITIES
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL IMPACT