Social impact assessment in the Russian Federation: does it meet the key values of democracy and civil society?

Gulakov, Ilya; Vanclay, Frank

doi:10.1080/14615517.2018.1507111

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“…In practice, of course, project proponents do not always fully share or commit to this conceptual stance on social development and they may undertake SIA only in order to meet the minimum regulatory expectations (Gulakov and Vanclay 2018). Over time, this will be moderated by increasing expectations in formal requirements for SIA, as well as by improved normal practice understandings within the SIA community of practice.…”

Section: Current Understanding Of Social Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modifying social impact assessment to enhance the effectiveness of company social investment strategies in contributing to local community development

Gulakov

Vanclay²,

Arts³

2020

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Good practice social impact assessment (SIA) should lead to improved local community development outcomes. However, the social benefits alleged to flow from projects are often not as evident to affected communities as the project's adverse impacts. Projects still give inadequate attention to social issues and fail to achieve social development outcomes. Using a prominent gas project in Russia, the Nord Stream 2 project, as an illustrative example, we explore the potential of environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) to enhance the effectiveness of project contributions to local community development. We analyse the main steps of the community development process for the Nord Stream 2 project, and consider how it benefitted from the SIA process. We also reflect on the potential further contribution of SIA to community development. Even though SIA and community development are interrelated, we conclude that SIA, as currently practiced, is constrained in its ability to contribute to community development outcomes. Adjustments to the SIA and corporate social investment frameworks are needed to make them more effective in achieving social development outcomes.

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Section: Current Understanding Of Social Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modifying social impact assessment to enhance the effectiveness of company social investment strategies in contributing to local community development

Gulakov

Vanclay²,

Arts³

2020

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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“…Russian state recognises and protects the rights of select minority indigenous peoples with a total population of 258,000 people comprising of 40 nations who reside in the Russian North, Siberia and Far East that lead traditional activities of hunting, fishing, plant gathering and reindeer herding (collectively called the indigenous peoples of the North) (Fondahl et al, 2001;Fondahl & Sirina, 2006;Gavrilyeva et al, 2019;Potravnyy et al, 2017;Soloviev et al, 2014). Despite an extensive body of legislation, living spaces of indigenous peoples fall into focus of national economic policies for commercial exploitation of mineral and natural resources by oil, gas, mining, energy and infrastructure companies (Gulakov & Vanclay, 2018;Semenova, 2007;Stammler & Peskov, 2006;Stammler & Wilson, 2006;Xanthaki, 2004). IP of the North do not possess land ownership rights (outside of municipal settlements), but registered IP groups (groups formed around kinship ties organise themselves in 'IP communes' to conduct traditional activities) can register user rights for land, that enable traditional resource use practices, but these are under continuous threat of withdrawal into industrial use (Potravnyy et al, 2016(Potravnyy et al, , 2017.…”

Section: Russian Arcticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of NGOs in Promoting Salience of Stakeholders and Social Issues

Yakovleva¹,

Vazquez-Brust

Gavrilyeva

2020

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This paper aims to explore how non-governmental organisations (NGOs) influence environmental governance, public policy and recognition of social issues and social groups. From a conceptual standpoint, the study examines how NGO activism affects salience of stakeholders and salience of social issues in public policy. It is based on longitudinal study of NGO activism in a Russian Arctic region during oil pipeline construction and qualitative analysis of interviews and secondary data collected during 2006 and 2019. The study uses a theoretical lens of environmental governance and salience as applied to stakeholders and social issues, and utilises Salience and Institutional Analysis and Design framework in qualitative data analysis. The study reveals that NGOs activism leads to changes in public policy, elevates salience of indigenous peoples as stakeholders and their concerns within the nexus of business-government-community operating at operational, collectivechoice and constitutional levels of environmental governance. New public policy incrementally addresses social issues at collective-choice level but actually limits the radical change at the constitutional level of environmental governance. As a result, NGO participation in public policy adds external legitimacy to government innovations, while paradoxically reifying the exclusion of indigenous peoples' groups from critical functions of environmental governance such as distribution of benefits from resource use and participation in modification of governance solutions.

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“…In addition, the mining sector worldwide has not improved, according to those living closest to the mines and, consequently, most affected [30]. As a result, information from international literature [12,[31][32][33][34][35] and English translations of interviews [36][37][38] of the Russian mining company director was collected and analysed.…”

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Social Life Cycle Assessment of Brine Treatment in the Process Industry: A Consequential Approach Case Study

Tsalidis

Korevaar

2019

Sustainability

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Social life cycle assessment (SLCA) was developed to complement the environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and economic assessment. Contrary to LCA, SLCA is not yet standardized, and the consequential approach is little discussed in literature. This study aims to perform a consequential SLCA and investigate the applicability of the method in industrial decision making. The aforementioned assessment is done within the Zero Brine project, which works on zero liquid discharge technology for water, salt, and magnesium recovery from brine effluents. The developed SLCA systems are gate-to-gate, and the analysis is performed at two levels: Hotspot and site-specific. The system boundaries consist of a demineralized water (DW) production company, a chlor-alkali company, an electricity provider, a magnesium distributor in the Netherlands, and a Russian mining company. The latter exists only in the boundaries before the change due to the Zero Brine project, because recovered magnesium is expected to replace the Russian magnesium imported in the Netherlands. Within the system boundaries, the stakeholders contributing the most are the DW and the magnesium distributor companies. The former produces the brine and thus recovers the magnesium and salt. The latter is the exclusive distributor of Russian magnesium in the Netherlands. Overall, we find that the recovered magnesium results in improving social performance mainly in "Freedom of association and collective bargaining", "Fair salary", and "Health and Safety" due to decreasing the dependency of the Netherlands on Russia, while increasing operation in a country with much stronger environmental regulation and corporate commitment to sustainability issues. Modelling with SLCA may not result in the expected societal benefits, as the Russian community and workers may not benefit due to the large geographical boundaries of the system under study. Nevertheless, the application of the consequential approach can be considered suitable, yet complicated, for offering decision makers adequate social information. We recommend that decision makers in the DW company invest in magnesium recovery and that decision makers in the magnesium distributor company distribute the recovered magnesium.

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Social impact assessment in the Russian Federation: does it meet the key values of democracy and civil society?

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Modifying social impact assessment to enhance the effectiveness of company social investment strategies in contributing to local community development

Modifying social impact assessment to enhance the effectiveness of company social investment strategies in contributing to local community development

Role of NGOs in Promoting Salience of Stakeholders and Social Issues

Social Life Cycle Assessment of Brine Treatment in the Process Industry: A Consequential Approach Case Study

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