A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment (3rd Edition, 2004)
by Rabel J. Burdge
The Guide is a tool for practitioners at all levels —social scientists, agency employees, community leaders, volunteers—to complete social impact assessments (SIA’s) efficiently and effectively. The Guide is a how-to manual that provides the users with a step-by-step process easily followed by persons with minimal social science training. The Guide is organized into three sections:
Chapters 1-6 provides the background, a short history, the conceptual model, the SIA scoping process and an explanation as to how to obtain data to measure SIA variables.
Chapters 7-11 correspond to the five categories of SIA variables--population change, community and institutional arrangements, communities in transition, individual and family impacts and community infrastructure needs.
Chapters 12-13 provide worksheets for summarizing SIA variables, and how resulting data may be used in the SIA mitigation/enhancement process.
ISBN: 0-941042-17-0 192 pages, spiral bound, 8.5" x 11"
The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment (New 2004)
by Rabel J. Burdge
This book provides the conceptual and theoretical development of SIA by one of the founders and his colleagues of this applied social science field. The 24 chapters are organized around the following topics:
Developing the Concept of Social Impact Assessment
The Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment
Case Studies in Social Impact Assessment
Social Impact Assessment and the Public Involvement Process
Social Impact Assessment in an International Context
Rabel J. Burdge is professor of sociology and environmental studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham and professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), he is now devoting time to workshops and consultation in the field of SIA and public involvement.
Daydreams and Nightmares (A Sociological Essay on the American Environment)
by William R. Burch, Jr
This provocative investigation draws from diverse sources not usually combined in a sociological synthesis (such as Pleistocene geography, literary criticism, biology, and chemistry). The analysis examines the social consequences of man-environment interactions under a variety of conditions and includes such topics as:
the discovery of the environmental crisis - time, habitat, and social structure
vocabularies of nature
rhetorical uses of nature
democracy and conservation
frontiers, abundance, and rationality
the end of normality.
ISBN: 0-941042-22-0 197 pages, paperback, 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"
Fliegel overviews and summarizes research on the spread of innovations through rural populations. The volume begins with a look at the discovery of diffusion as a patterned process in the 1940s and examines the creation of the classical model to explain diffusion as a transfer of information. Fliegel then notes how the classical model changed to accommodate the particular socio-economic condition when the model was applied to developing countries after 1945. He concludes by commenting on the revival of interest in diffusion research, the further development and refinement of the classical model, and the modern emphasis on conservation-oriented innovations rather than on innovations that enhance production.
ISBN: 0-941042-31-6 158 pages, paperback, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
"Man, Mind, and Land" is the first major comprehensive treatise of society, culture and the transformation of natural resources.
This classic in rural sociology is primarily concerned with developing the implications of viewing resource phenomena in terms of their structural properties. The book describes and analyzes four distinct resource systems, two of them belonging to folk societies, one belonging to a feudal society, and the other belonging to an industrial society.
ISBN: 0-941042-25-1 240 pages, paperback, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Rural Sociology and the Environment traces the origin and development of the sociology of natural resources practiced by Rural Sociologists since the turn of the century. The book is a recognition of the interplay of environment and human behavior as a basis for understanding of rural life, its problems and opportunities. An ecological perspective which permeates Rural Sociology is described and a contemporary ecological framework for examining natural resource issues of the day is introduced. An exhaustive and user friendly bibliography accompanies each chapter.
ISBN: 0-941042-11-1 135 pages, paperback, 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"
Three Iron Mining Towns is an analysis of the interdependence of human character and social life connected with natural resource extraction. The book traces mining settlements through their formation, early years and maturity as resource dependent communities. Along the way we learn about the influence of culture upon the reformation of nature, the transformations of social institutions, the people who reside in these towns, politics and economy, and the continuous ebb and flow of social life and community well-being associated with the mining of iron ore.
Three Iron Mining Towns is one of the first sociological treatises which integrates the social with the bio-physical environment, an excellent example of the way in which rural sociologists studied natural resources and the environment.
ISBN: 0-941042-19-7 146 pages, paperback, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
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