A Collaborative Approach to Human Rights Impact Assessments

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the Sciences Po Law School Clinic are pleased to share their new discussion paper, entitled 'A Collaborative Approach to Human Rights Impact Assessments'.

A Health Impact Assessment Framework for Special Economic Zones in the Greater Mekong Subregion

This health impact assessment framework serves as a guide to manage health risks and impacts in economic zones of the Greater Mekong Subregion and address transboundary issues associated with human migration.

Adapting social impact assessment to address a project's human rights impacts and risks.

This newly published article represent the collective views of an economist, environmental engineer, sociologist, human rights lawyer and an environmental psychologist.

The article lays out a practical approach to taking human rights into account in assessing and managing project-related risks to communities.

Esteves, A.M., Factor, G., Vanclay, F., Götzmann, N. Moreira, S. (2017). Adapting social impact assessment to address a project's human rights impacts and risks. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 67 (2017) 73–87. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2017.07.001>

Avaiblable at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195925517300070 

Adaptive Assessment of Cumulative Socioeco impacts

'Adaptive Assessment' of Cumulative Socioeconomic Impacts (2015), Will Rifkin, Katherine Witt, Jo-Anne Everingham, and Vikki Uhlmann Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland.

Assessing the Social Impact of Development Project

ASSESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Experience in India and other Asian countries (2016)

Hari Mohan Mathur, Editor
Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

Climate Change Perception and Response: Case Study

The purpose of this paper is to assess the responses of fishers to the impacts of climate variability and change in two small islands. Little is known of how persons are adapting to climate change within the Caribbean and the South Pacific, two of the most affected regions in the world. The research broadly sets out to answer the following questions: (1) what is the level of perception of climate change and its impacts among key stakeholders who rely on the coastal environment for their livelihoods? (2) what climate change adaptation plans and options have been implemented within these livelihoods? This study uses a survey questionnaire to elicit data on perception, adaptation measures, demographic and other factors from eighty fishermen on two islands, Antigua and Efate. We found that the fishers’ perceptions did not always match the meteorological data. Nevertheless all fishers had implemented various adaptation strategies, some of which were considered to be routine practices. This study points to the need for greater support and investment by public and private sector agencies to enable fishers to better respond to climate variability and change.

Community Development Journal

A special edition on community development and mining is free to download
http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

Delivering the Promise of Social Outcomes

Delivering the Promise of  Social Outcomes: The Role of the Performance Analyst (2015) by Emma Tomkinson. Jointly published by The Social Investment Lab, Impetus-PEF and Think Impact.

Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?

Ben Leo, Robert Morello, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Peixoto, and Stephen Davenport. 2015. "Do
Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?" CGD Working Paper 398. Washington, DC:
Center for Global Development.

Estate Regeneration and Community Impacts

"Estate Regeneration and Community Impacts: Challenges and lessons for social landlords, developers and local councils", A. Belotti, LSE Housing & Communities (2016).

evaluating protected area management

A key challenge has been to define and measure “success” in managing protected areas. A case study was conducted of efforts to evaluate the new protected area management system in Trinidad and Tobago using a participatory approach.

Evaluating Environmental and SIA in Developing C's

Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries provides environmental scientists with tools to evaluate environmental and social impacts of development initiatives, especially in developing countries.

Elsevier

ISBN: 9780124081291

Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessm

Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment - is a valuable reference book for practitioners and researchers in environmental and social impact assessment. The authors have developed and tested a new framework to evaluate environmental impact assessment (EIA) systems that may be adopted by most developing countries with EIA experience.

Experiencing Climate Change in Bangladesh

This book offers a solid framework for analyzing the process and components of adaptation of rural livelihoods to a changing hydro-climatic environment and presents empirical evidence of livelihood adaptation at the local level.

Gender and the Extrative Industries

Gender and the Extrative Insdustries: Putting Gender on the Corporate Agenda, OXFAM, May 2016.

Gendering the Field

'Gendering the field : towards sustainable livelihoods for mining in mining communities' is edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and published by ANU E Press. This book is also available online at http://epress.anu.edu.au/gendering_field_citation

Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas

This new book from Prof. Anthony Bebbington and other authors uses Latin American and African case studies to form a broad geographical comparison. It also compares countries over long historical periods in order to allow readers to see patterns over time, using theory and deep empirical analysis, explaining concepts and supporting them with broad based substantiation.

Human Rights and Impact Assessment

Special issue on human rights and impact assessment of the journal, Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal 31(2) June 2013 published and now available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tiap20/current

(Free for IAIA members)

Human Rights and the Business of Fracking

Human Rights and the Business of Fracking: Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to Hydraulic Fracturing

© The Center for Human Rights and Environment 

CONSULTATION DRAFT: AUGUST 20, 2015

Intimate Partner Abuse and Women’s Health

The study found significant negative mental health consequences for women experiencing any form of abuse and a reluctance to seek counselling and support services. Support services and education and prevention programs must recognise that all forms of partner abuse, including non-physical forms, result in depression and severe psychological symptomatology which are likely to affect women’s help seeking behaviour.

Legitimizing industry & multi-sectoral regulation

 "Legitimizing industry and multi-sectoral regulation of cumulative impacts: a comparison of mining and energy development in Athabasca, Canada and the Hunter Valley, Australia" in Resources Policy.

Lose to Gain: Is Involuntary Resettlement...

Lose to Gain: Is Involuntary Resettlement a Development Opportunity?
Edited by Jayantha Perera. Asian Development Bank, 2014.

Social Impact Assessment of Resource Projects

"Social impact assessment of resource projects", International Mining for Development Centre (Franks D., 2012).

The Art and Science of Benefit Sharing

The Art and Science of Benefit Sharing in the Natural Resource Sector, IFC, February 2015.

The Extractives Industry & Society (second issue)

The second issue of The Extractive Industries and Society, edited by Professor Gavin Hilson, University of Surrey, UK.

Understanding the Measurement of Social Impact

Understanding the Measurement of Social Impact Within the Context of Social Investment: A Descriptive Study – Summary of Results from Key Informant Interviews

Voluntary codes of conduct & their implementation

Voluntary codes of conduct & their implementation in the Australian mining and petroleum industries: is there a business case for CSR? Tapan K. Sarker, Asian Journal of Business Ethics, January 2013

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13520-012-0027-3

What about the people?

What about the people? The socially sustainable, resilient community and urban development