Ortiz Noguera, GuadalupeDomínguez Gómez, José AndrésAledo Tur, AntonioUrgeghe, Anna M.2024-10-312024-10-312018-09-24Ortiz, G., Domínguez-Gómez, J. A., Aledo, A., & Urgeghe, A. M. (2018). Participatory multi-criteria decision analysis for prioritizing impacts in environmental and social impact assessments. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 14(1), 6–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2018.15102371548-7733https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24368Environmental 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.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Impact assessment; multi-criteria decision analysis; golf projects; participation; stakeholder engagementImpact assessmentMulti-criteria decision analysisGolf projectsParticipationStakeholder engagementjournal article10.1080/15487733.2018.1510237open access63 Sociología