Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institutions

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This book is the first significant international attempt to outline and analyse 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 Institutions provides 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 nongovernment organisations. It also arrives at a time when such institutions are realising they can no longer ignore the social, cultural and economic impacts that their activities generate.

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"The book would be a useful resource for Year 12 Environmental Science and Geography teachers and tertiary students for topics involving environmental planning."--Wallis "Geographical Education "
"This is essential reading for those considering an involvement with social assessment. It is positive yet critical and directly confronts the important issues facing the area."--Syme "stralian Journal of Environmental Management "

Author Bio

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.