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Author Dale, A (ed)

Title Social assessment in natural resource management institutions / editors: Allan Dale, Nick Taylor and Marcus Lane
Published Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, [2001]
©2001

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Description xiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Part I. Introduction to social assessment in natural resource institutions: [1]. Social assessment in natural resource management: promise, potentiality and practice -- Part II. Institutionalising social assessment in the global context: [2]. The international institutionalisation of social impact assessment; [3]. Institutionalising social assessment at the World Bank; [4]. The institutionalisation of social assessment in South Africa: the post-apartheid window of opportunity; [5]. Assessing environmental justice: social assessment lessons from the California Energy Commission's sitting process -- Part III. Institutionalising social assessment at the national level: [6]. Social assessment in New Zealand resource management; [7]. Limitation and opportunity: the institutional basis for social assessment in natural resource management in Australia; [8]. Social assessment and resource management at the Australian federal level: trapped in an epistemiological corner?; [9]. Reframing the nature and scope of social impact assessment: psychological and social (psychosocial) impacts -- Part IV. Institutionalising social assessment at the provincial level: [10]. Institutionalising social assessment in Queensland: the Social Impact Assessment Unit 1993-1996; [11]. The Western Australian Social Impact Unit 1989-1993: nicety or necessity?; [12]. Social assessment in New South Wales and the 2000 Olympics: a great leap forward? -- Part V. Institutionalising social assessment at the local level: [13]. Social impact assessment in the Australian Capital Territory; [14]. Institutionalising social impact assessment in Australian local government: a practitioner's perspective from Brisbane City Countil, Queensland; [15]. Social impact assessment at the local government level in New South Wales, Australia: the Lismore City Council experience -- Part VI. Institutionalising social assessment at the sector level: [16]. The Australian urban water industry; [17]. Social assessment in the tourism sector in New Zealand; [18]. Hastening the evolution of Australian rural industry policy: social impact assessment in a broader context; [19]. Social impact assessment in New Zealand natural resource management research institutions; [20]. Social assessment in the Australian forest sector; [21]. Social assessment and indigenous peoples: Aboriginal versus bureaucratic agency -- Part VII. Conclusions: the way forward: [22]. Conclusions. Social assessment, natural resource institutions and the future
Summary "This book is the first significant international attempt to outline and analyse how social assessment has been integrated within natural resource management institutions. In doing so, it focuses on contemporary Australian and New Zealand experiences, and relates these back to the international context [with a chapter each on South Africa and California]."--Back cover
Analysis Natural resource management
Social impact assessment
Social change
New Zealand
Notes "This book is the first significant international attempt to outline and analyse how social assessment has been integrated within natural resource management institutions. In doing so, it focuses on contemporary Australian and New Zealand experiences, and relates theese back to the international context [with a chapter each on South Africa and California]."--Back cover
Logos of CSIRO Publishing and Land & Water Australia appear on back cover
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 295-296
Notes CSIRO 2001
Donated by Professor Jennifer McKay, Director, Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws
Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Natural resources -- Social aspects.
Conservation of natural resources -- Social aspects.
Natural resources -- Management -- Social aspects.
Natural resources -- Management.
Natural resources -- Australia -- Management.
Natural resources -- New Zealand -- Management.
Conservation of natural resources.
Human ecology.
Social change.
Author Taylor, C. Nicholas.
Lane, Marcus B. (Marcus Benjamin), 1966-
Dale, Allan.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
LC no. 2002327698
ISBN 064306558X