A framework for combining social impact assessment and risk assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Mahmoudi, Hossein ^a,b   Renn, Ortwin ^c   Vanclay, Frank ^d   Hoffmann, Volker ^a   Karami, Ezatollah ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concern assessment; Cumulative effects; Risk management; Social amplification of risk; Socio political ambiguity; Unanticipated impacts

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

CONCERN ASSESSMENT; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; RISKS ASSESSMENTS; RISKS MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL AMPLIFICATION OF RISKS; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; SOCIAL RISKS; SOCIO-POLITICAL AMBIGUITY; UNANTICIPATED IMPACT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84879583890     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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