Participatory multi-criteria decision analysis for prioritizing impacts in environmental and social impact assessments
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Title: | Participatory multi-criteria decision analysis for prioritizing impacts in environmental and social impact assessments |
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Authors: | Ortiz, Guadalupe | Domínguez Gómez, José Andrés | Aledo, Antonio | Urgeghe, Anna M. |
Research Group/s: | Población, Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (POMADE) | Observatorio Sociológico de la Educación (OBSOEDU) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Sociología I |
Keywords: | Impact assessment | Multi-criteria decision analysis | Golf projects | Participation | Stakeholder engagement |
Knowledge Area: | Sociología |
Issue Date: | 24-Sep-2018 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Citation: | Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy. 2018, 14(1): 6-21. doi:10.1080/15487733.2018.1510237 |
Abstract: | Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) can be an extremely useful tool for identifying and evaluating the repercussions of a wide range of initiatives. Typically when the project and its impacts are highly complex, an ESIA can detect a large number of issues that need to be prioritized so that they can be effectively and efficiently addressed. This article presents a mixed-methodology proposal for impact prioritization in ESIA, divided into four phases: (1) creation of the stakeholders’ platform; (2) identification and assessment of impacts; (3) impact categorization; and (4) impact assessment and prioritization using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This procedure was applied as an ex-post evaluation of a golf-based tourism project in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Huelva, Spain), but can also potentially be used to conduct ex-ante assessments. The main contribution of the study is in the design and testing of a parsimonious procedure, which condenses a large amount of qualitative information into relatively simple operations using MCDA. The process is grounded in the constructivist social impact assessment (SIA) paradigm through stakeholder evaluation of impacts and criteria. |
Sponsor: | This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CSO2012.32493] and the Council of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Regional Government) [SEJ2397]. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/83762 |
ISSN: | 1548-7733 |
DOI: | 10.1080/15487733.2018.1510237 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2018.1510237 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - POMADE - Artículos de Revistas INV - OBSOEDU - Artículos de Revistas |
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