TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-designing Social Impact Assessment to enhance community resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action and Sustainable Development
AU - Imperiale, Angelo Jonas
AU - Vanclay, Frank
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - Enhancing disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community resilience are fundamental for sustainable development. However, cultural and political-institutional barriers hinder governments from progressing towards sustainability. We propose a redesign of social impact assessment (SIA) to make it more applicable to the field of regional and urban planning, and we discuss the role SIA can have in enhancing community resilience to achieve DRR and sustainable development in localities. We argue that, to convert SIA into a tool that can inform regional recovery and development planning, a rethinking of SIA and of the role of SIA practitioners is needed. We therefore expound the SIA Framework for Action and we enhance it to be a community-based process focussed on informing regional policies and plans and decisions about the projects to be included in such plans. Application of the SIA Framework for Action will help governments overcome the barriers to DRR and sustainable development.
AB - Enhancing disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community resilience are fundamental for sustainable development. However, cultural and political-institutional barriers hinder governments from progressing towards sustainability. We propose a redesign of social impact assessment (SIA) to make it more applicable to the field of regional and urban planning, and we discuss the role SIA can have in enhancing community resilience to achieve DRR and sustainable development in localities. We argue that, to convert SIA into a tool that can inform regional recovery and development planning, a rethinking of SIA and of the role of SIA practitioners is needed. We therefore expound the SIA Framework for Action and we enhance it to be a community-based process focussed on informing regional policies and plans and decisions about the projects to be included in such plans. Application of the SIA Framework for Action will help governments overcome the barriers to DRR and sustainable development.
KW - capacity development
KW - climate change adaptation
KW - community participation
KW - disaster risk governance
KW - environmental governance
KW - place-based development
KW - urban and regional planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85165596109&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/sd.2690
DO - 10.1002/sd.2690
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165596109
SN - 0968-0802
VL - 32
SP - 1571
EP - 1587
JO - Sustainable Development
JF - Sustainable Development
IS - 2
ER -