ROUND THE PEG OR SQUARE THE HOLE? Populists, Technocrats and Environmental Assessment in Third World Countries

Yap, Nonita T.

doi:10.1080/07349165.1990.9726029

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“…It shed light on alternative ways of understanding this landscape and the people who inhabited it. Yap (1990) has made a similar observation: the most important function of social and environmental impact assessment may be in creating a forum for democratic debate. In this case, the SIA contributed to this societal conversation in a significant way and, in so doing, helped organize attention to a range of policy alternatives that hitherto had not been central to the debate.…”

Section: Conclusion and Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Sacred land, mineral wealth, and biodiversity at Coronation Hill, Northern Australia: indigenous knowledge and SIA

Lane

Ross

Dale

et al. 2003

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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This paper is concerned with the role of social impact assessment (SIA) in the resolution of an environmental conflict involving demands for the conservation of an ecologically significant area, a proposal to exploit mineral wealth, and the concerns of indigenous custodians who feared damage to sacred lands. This is a case in which the knowledge claims of key protagonists were deeply politicized and contested, and in which the process of decision-making was itself the subject of controversy and debate. The paper reviews the case, emphasizing the roles of western and indigenous epistemologies in decisionmaking. It presents an approach to SIA that addresses these epistemological issues and ensures the articulation of indigenous knowledge to governmental decision-makers.

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Section: Conclusion and Reflectionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Sacred land, mineral wealth, and biodiversity at Coronation Hill, Northern Australia: indigenous knowledge and SIA

Lane

Ross

Dale

et al. 2003

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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“…Proponents of this line of analysis argue that public participation should give voice to social groups with environmental interests and values (Caldwell, 1991;Caldwell, 1998;Yap, 1990;Boggs, 1991). Open debate should provide an opportunity for transformative learning for all parties engaged in the assessment process (Webler et al, 1995;Sinclair and Diduck, 2001;Fitzpatrick and Sinclair, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%

Contentious politics in environmental assessment: blocked projects and winning coalitions

Devlin¹,

Yap²

2008

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Environmental assessment (EA) is now institutionalized in over 100 countries but is widely criticized by practitioners and analysts for failing to convince decision-makers. Environmental sustainability is still not placed high on the list of criteria influencing project and programme approvals. This paper suggests that the failure of EA reflects the politically contested domain of EA. A framework for the analysis of public participation in EA based on the study of contentious politics is introduced. Public participation is a crucially important condition for influencing decision makers to pursue sustainability objectives, but the effectiveness of public participation is conditional upon characteristics of the coalitions created by diverse stakeholders. The importance of coalitions between local stakeholders and intellectuals is highlighted and exemplified through four cases in the Philippines, Brazil, South Africa and Taiwan where public participation in EA processes is associated with the blockage of large-scale development projects.

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“…Relatively early, Yap (1990) examined the applications of EIA in developing countries and argued that the traditional system of assessment (prepare an impact statement, subject it to public review, and accept, modify or reject it), was of little value in developing countries because governments had often already decided to go ahead with the plan and there was a lack of quality baseline data that could be used to evaluate the project's impact. To compensate for this lack of data, Yap proposed a participatory impact assessment and monitoring (PIAM) model based on local experiential knowledge.…”

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“…PIAM assumes that it is the instrument that must adapt to new conditions. It is the peg that must be rounded, not the hole that must be squared (Yap 1990, p. 72).…”

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An evaluation of community and corporate bias in assessment tools

Bauer

Thomas

2006

Int Social Sci J

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This is a comprehensive review and evaluation of the main international and national tools utilised to assess the impact of developments on communities to determine their validity of their capacity to detect and measure impacts across a wide spectrum of community resources. Manuals from environmental, health and social impact assessment were reviewed. The criteria for evaluation were the type of indicators used in the tool; the stage at which communities were involved in the assessment process and whether assessments were completed from an insider (local) or outsider (expert) perspective. The findings were that few guidelines include detail in measuring, monitoring, and including community‐validated indicators. It is still rare to find impact assessments that include criteria that are meaningful to the community rather than to the developer or outside expert. While the need to include the target community in the assessment process has been acknowledged over the last 10 to 20 years the rigorous work required for the development of criteria to validate community‐driven assessment still needs to be completed.

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ROUND THE PEG OR SQUARE THE HOLE? Populists, Technocrats and Environmental Assessment in Third World Countries

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Sacred land, mineral wealth, and biodiversity at Coronation Hill, Northern Australia: indigenous knowledge and SIA

Sacred land, mineral wealth, and biodiversity at Coronation Hill, Northern Australia: indigenous knowledge and SIA

Contentious politics in environmental assessment: blocked projects and winning coalitions

An evaluation of community and corporate bias in assessment tools

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