Social impact assessment

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A social impact assessment (SIA) can be used to identify, analyze, and monitor the potential social impacts of an intervention or a project. The social impacts can be positive or negative and have intended or unintended consequences.

For example, installing a stop sign might have the intended positive consequence of decreasing traffic accidents. It could also have the unintended consequence of increasing the number of families in that neighbourhood because of the perceived safety.

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