[sustran] Social Impact Assessment for Highway Development

[SUSTRAN Resource Centre]

Dear sustran-discussers

I have had a request for information from a Malaysian NGO about Social
Impact Assessment for Highway Development

Tamaddun Research Trust has been commissioned to look into this for a new
proposed intercity expressway in the eastern part of Peninsular Malaysia.
The terrain involved will include mainly rural areas but will cut accross
some urban areas, on flat as well as hilly or even mountainous terrain, and
may also involve displacement of people as well as natural habitats.

They are at an early stage on exploring this issue and it is not my
speciality. Can anyone please suggest some key references, useful websites
or contacts to help them with this. 

I have one book from the World Bank, with a helpful section on social
impacts. It is "Roads and the Environment: A Handbook", September 1994,
Report TWU 13, The World Bank. It has a section on "Human and Social
Environment".  Any additional references would be most appreciated. 



A. Rahman Paul BARTER
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