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Climent-Gil, Emilio

Aledo, Antonio#Vallejos-Romero, Arturo

The social vulnerability approach for social impact assessment

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW

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The Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature has highlighted the need to focus attention on the most vulnerable groups to improve the management of socio-environmental risk. However, methodological proposals to introduce vulnerability in SIAs are still incipient. The aim of this article is to present a proposal to analyze the role of social vulnerability in the production of risks generated by large infrastructure projects. Taking the theoretical-methodological advances made from the social vulnerability and natural disasters approach, and from the social vulnerability, development and poverty approaches, we have designed a Social Vulnerability Approach (SVA) which we aim at incorporating into the SIA of large infrastructure projects. To illustrate our methodological proposal, the case of the socio-environmental conflict generated by the HydroAysen Project (which entailed the construction of a set of hydroelectric dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in the Chilean Patagonia region) has been selected. Our proposal allows us to identify elements of vulnerability throughout the whole project cycle and, therefore, windows for intervention in order to reduce social vulnerability as well as other kind of hazards that large infrastructure projects may generate on affected populations.

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This work was supported by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chili (CONICYT) [Project Fondecyt, grant numbers 1150576 and Project REDES, grant numbers 150052].

Este trabajo fue apoyado por la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica de Chile (CONICYT) [Proyecto Fondecyt, número de subvención 1150576 y Proyecto REDES, número de subvención 150052].

10.1016/j.eiar.2018.07.005

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Impacts# Social risk# Technological hazard# Dam# Patagonia# HydroAysen project

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2018.07.005

Environmental Studies

Impactos# Riesgo social# Peligro tecnológico# Presa# Patagonia# Proyecto HidroAysén

Ciencias Ambientales (Aspectos Sociales)

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WOS:000447480100007

The social vulnerability approach for social impact assessment

Artículo original

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW

Estudios Ambientales

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ANID FONDECYT 1150576#ANID REDES150052

ANID CONICYT FONDECYT 1150576

ANID CONICYT REDES 150052

This work was supported by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chili (CONICYT) [Project Fondecyt, grant numbers 1150576 and Project REDES, grant numbers 150052].

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