Adapting social impact assessment to address a project's human rights impacts and risks
| Autor: | Sérgio Moreira, Frank Vanclay, Nora Götzmann, Ana Maria Esteves, Gabriela Factor |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Urban and Regional Studies Institute |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Social impact assessment
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Business and human rights 0211 other engineering and technologies Vulnerability 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Social licence to operate Environmental impact assessment Corporate social responsibility Human rights impact assessment Environmental planning Risk management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Resettlement Ecology Human rights business.industry Impact assessment project-induced displacement and resettlement Human rights-based approach 021107 urban & regional planning Business risks business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 67, 73-87. ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC |
| ISSN: | 0195-9255 |
| Popis: | We address the weaknesses inherent in the social risk assessments undertaken for business, especially hi the extractive industries. In contrast to the conventional approach that considers consequence to the company rather than to impacted communities, conformance with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights requires that consequence to affected communities has precedence. In order for social risks to be properly assessed, we consider that: companies need to know and understand the human rights impacts of their activities; contemporary approaches to project impact and risk assessment need to be adapted to consider human rights; and environmental impact assessment (EIA) and social impact assessment (SIA) methods need to be adapted to give greater attention to impacts on human rights. Using an example from the mining, oil and gas sector, we provide a method that differentiates social risks from business risks, and we position impact assessment as an instrument that actively facilitates the improved identification, analysis and management of social risks. Practical adaptations to SIA activities and risk assessment processes are provided. Taking human rights impacts into account and using the dimensions of gravity, extent, vulnerability and remediability, we nominate criteria to assess the significance of negative social impacts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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