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EV5601 - Social Impact Assessment: Environmental Management
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2012 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
2 |
Administered by: |
Sch of Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Develop an awareness and understanding of the theoretical and practical processes
of Social Impact Assessment. The history and development of Social Impact Assessment
is presented along side practical learning of the processess. An intergral component
of the planning degree program.
Learning Outcomes
- understand the commonly accepted definitions of Social Impact Assessment, Technological
Assessment and Environmental Impact; and be familiar with and understand the commonwealth
and state environmental protection legislation and its international context;
- understand the history of EIA-SIA legislation; and understand how Social Impact Assessment
fits into the overall Environmental Impact Assessment process in developed and developing
countries;
- understand the relationship between the steps in the SIA process and the steps in
the planning process; and understand and be able to do "scoping" and an adequate DRAFT
of an SIA (the group project);
- be familiar with the main body of social science research findings on identifiable
social impacts as summarised under the following topics: (a) Population Impacts (b)
Community/Institutional Arrangements (c) Communities in Transition (d) Individual
and Family Level Impacts (e) Community Infrastructure Needs; and become familiar with
a State (Provincial) or Federal Land Management and/or Donor Agency that does Social
Impact Assessment as a component of EIS;
- be able to define and understand the following terms: EIS SIA, Social Impact Settings,
Public Involvement, Social Soundness Analysis, World Bank, AusAID, Social Impact Assessment
Variables, Social Assessment Data, Social Assessment Model, Social Impact Assessment,
Environmental Impact Statement, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Baseline Conditions,
Social Assessment Analytical Procedures, Social Assessment Analysis, Public Involvement,
Environmental Assessment, Needs Assessment, Citizen Participation, Needs Assessment
Techniques, Mitigation, Monitoring, Scoping, Cumulative Effects, Primary and Secondary
Effects, and Zones of Influence; and be familiar with the approaches utilised to mitigate
and monitor significant social impacts, particularly in the context of the Integrated
Planning Act in Queensland.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments,
and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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EV3601 |
Availabilities
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Townsville,
Study Period 3,
Block
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Census Date 02-Feb-2012 |
Face to face teaching
05-Feb-2012 to 11-Feb-2012
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Coordinator: |
<Person not found>, Assoc. Professor David King |
Lecturers:
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<Person not found>, Assoc. Professor David King. |
Workload expectations: |
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Assessment: |
other exams (40%); group assignment preparing a draft social impact assessment (20%); assignments (20%); participation in class based exercises which work through the process of developing
a draft sia (20%).
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