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Social Impact Assessment

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Miguel Huerta Anth 231 Dr. Pitchon 12/4/2016 References Goldman, Laurence R. Social Impact: An Applied Anthropology Manual. Oxford, 2000. The book for this week focused on Social Impact Analysis. Social Impact Analysis is an assessment of the social effects of projects, construction, and disaster preparedness. This was a manual that gave insight on how to conduct SIA, information that affects SIA and how various different issue affect populations. Social Impact Assessment (week 15) Social impact assessments (SIA) are used to identify the impact of projects, programs, epidemics or natural disasters. SIA are important in determining the impact these events may have on specific populations. In the world we live in there are constantly infrastructural projects, SIA are important because underrepresented communities are usually the ones greatly affected by such projects, they are the ones that suffer the most and ironically are the ones that may have virtually no voice and sometimes vaguely considered when such projects emerge. In a world where corporations and governments place the economic above the well-being of certain people it is important to have social impact assessments to assess the pros and cons …show more content…

This is a way to prevent as much negative impact that a population could experience. Since marginalized populations are the most vulnerable to big infrastructural projects and natural disaster SIA is a way to prevent as much harm as possible. One of the main responsibilities of SIA is to determine the effects of the project, whether it have a short-term or long-lasting effect on the given social group (Goldman 2000). By doing SIA this method allows for the evaluation of social impact on any given event that will allow to improve the system or issue so populations could be better prepared for what the future

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