Report | Social Impact Assessment
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Running head: SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTSocial Impact AssessmentName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
1SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTThe essay focuses on Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and indigenous rights on theAboriginal people in Australia. Social Impact Assessment (SIA) defined as a structure thatinvolves the procedure of identification, monitoring and analyses of the positive and negativeimpact on the people of Australia affected intentionally or unintentionally due to the process ofdevelopment. The primary purpose of SIA however lies in guiding the decision making therebyleading to the creation of economic, socio cultural and biophysical environments. Therefore, SIAis meant for addressing both the rail and the mine components of a project and is prepared as perthe Terms of Reference (TOR) for a particular project issues by the co-coordinator general of thestate of Queensland. Thus, SIA involved a robust methodology for ensuring clearance inassumptions and tactics, appropriate analysis and data collection and consideration of socialequity. However, the methodology followed is in accordance with the principles and guidelinesofInternational are prepared in close consultation of the government of Coordinator General ofthe government of Queensland. The SIA however outlines the influence ofcultural and socialaspect, engagement of the community with parties affected thereby helping in display of baselinefor a social study, profile for workforce, potential project impacts, strategies and measuresstrategies in mitigating the project.The study area of SIA refers to the locations where operation, construction and projectdecommissioning might lead to culturally and socially influencing the people of Australia.However, from the point of view of impact assessment the social impacts occur either in theimmediate areas of the projects, in the closer locality or communities or in the regional centrecloser to the area of the project. The potential impact of SIA included impacts on existingmining, economic impacts locally, accommodation and demand for housing, roads and traffic,impacts on amenity and landholder, the capacity of infrastructure and social service in dealing
2SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTwith the development, the potential of changing the values of the community. However, at thesame time there were certain strategies adopted for responding to these potential impacts thatincludes landholder agreements, stakeholder engagement, accommodation and housing,management of the workforce, participation plan of the local industry, health and safety of thecommunity, planning and consultation of the emergency service, initiatives for the developmentof the community. The essay also discusses about the indigenous land rights of the Aboriginalpeople of Australia. Present State of Cultural Activities and Values of Aboriginal Over the period of 50, 000 years, the Aboriginal people have inhabited the regionsurrounding Ranger. The cultural activities and values of the people have undergone changes tothe external environment that ranged from changes in the climate to the rise in sea level,European colonization and interest on agricultural, conservation and mining on the traditionallands (De Rijke 2013). These have resulted in a varied range of lifestyles, practices and beliefswith the incorporation of other cultural influence and traditional elements. The Aboriginal population consists of traditional owners, resident of Torres Strait andother portions of Australia. The traditional owners in the region indentified under the AustralianLaw that helps in acknowledging and establishing rights to the land. This includes knowledge ofsites, primary spiritual responsibility for the area and traditional mechanisms (Leonard et.al2013). These traditional owners possess customary responsibilities and obligations for theimpacts and activities taking place on their lands that includes protection of sacred sites and land,management of resources that are traditional, ensuring protection of visitors from any harm anddecisions regarding issues that affects land. The obligation however, applies to the future and
3SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTcurrent generations of the Aboriginal people in the region. The achievements of the obligationsand responsibilities put forward reinforcement and active expression of the culture (Selin 2013).The remoteness, limited interaction amongst the aboriginal people has helped in enduring thetraditional culture as a part of the everyday life though there has been immense social changetaking place in the area. The social change is thus a contribution of the changing lifestyles andcommencement of modernization. Activities Contributing to Social changeThe continued development process of Ranger has contributed to its social change andhas substantially affected the activities and cultural values of the Aboriginal people (Franks andVanclay 2013). However, the activities that contributed to the social change of Ranger are thedevelopment of the Jabiru town as the service centre of the locality and ensuring establishmentof the infrastructure in Ranger that includes processing plant, pits and dams thereby resulting inthe changes of qualities of the land environment around the mines and its physical characteristicsSocial changes also attributed to distribution of various royalties and other benefits that arose inRanger. This resulted in the contest and division between and within the communities and groupsof Aboriginal people. Social change ensured through extensive consultation with Mirrar andother Aboriginal people by using the processes related to not only Ranger but also traditionalland interest. However, examples of this include SIAs, negotiations and campaign related toJabiluka mine and management of royal distributions. Further, the ability of the Aboriginalpeople in the region to safely use and manage resources such as sacred sites, traditional foodsand water also affected the change. Social change depended on the safety of the community ormineworkers on the land of Mirarr or incidents that arose from the extracted resources of theland. Moreover, the actions and decisions of the government, companies dealing with mining and
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