@article{10272/24368,
year = {2018},
month = {9},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24368},
abstract = {Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) can be an extremely useful tool for identifying and evaluating the repercussions of a wide range of initiatives. Typically when the project and its impacts are highly complex, an ESIA can detect a large number of issues that need to be prioritized so that they can be effectively and efficiently addressed. This article presents a mixed-methodology proposal for impact prioritization in ESIA, divided into four phases: (1) creation of the stakeholders’ platform; (2) identification and assessment of impacts; (3) impact categorization; and (4) impact assessment and prioritization using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This procedure was applied as an ex-post evaluation of a golf-based tourism project in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula (Huelva, Spain), but can also potentially be used to conduct ex-ante assessments. The main contribution of the study is in the design and testing of a parsimonious procedure, which condenses a large amount of qualitative information into relatively simple operations using MCDA. The process is grounded in the constructivist social impact assessment (SIA) paradigm through stakeholder evaluation of impacts and criteria.},
organization = {This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CSO2012.32493] and the Council of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Junta de Andalucıa Government) [SEJ2397].},
publisher = {Taylor and Francis},
title = {Participatory multi-criteria decision analysis for prioritizing impacts in environmental and social impact assessments},
doi = {10.1080/15487733.2018.1510237},
author = {Ortiz Noguera, Guadalupe and Domínguez Gómez, José Andrés and Aledo Tur, Antonio and Urgeghe, Anna M.},
}