TY - CHAP
T1 - Social impact assessment in China and its Overseas investments
T2 - Some recent developments
AU - Price, Susanna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In China, SIA dimension in development has recently emerged in response to growing protests against displacement. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview on these new developments. Initially, planning for rapid development focused mainly on technical, economic and financial aspects, with social and environmental aspects remaining into the background. Gradually, things began to change. In 1989, environment emerged as an additional input into the process of development planning. While formal SIA does not exist in China as yet, key development agencies have begun moving in this direction. And for certain kinds of projects SIA has now become a formal requirement. In addition to focusing on SIA experience in China, this overview also looks at the impacts of it growing investment projects in Africa and other countries in Asia and Latin America. The Chinese companies are not particularly known for integrating social and environmental concerns in investment projects abroad. Efforts are currently continuing to improve the situation both in overseas projects and also in projects at home. But still there is a long way to go.
AB - In China, SIA dimension in development has recently emerged in response to growing protests against displacement. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview on these new developments. Initially, planning for rapid development focused mainly on technical, economic and financial aspects, with social and environmental aspects remaining into the background. Gradually, things began to change. In 1989, environment emerged as an additional input into the process of development planning. While formal SIA does not exist in China as yet, key development agencies have begun moving in this direction. And for certain kinds of projects SIA has now become a formal requirement. In addition to focusing on SIA experience in China, this overview also looks at the impacts of it growing investment projects in Africa and other countries in Asia and Latin America. The Chinese companies are not particularly known for integrating social and environmental concerns in investment projects abroad. Efforts are currently continuing to improve the situation both in overseas projects and also in projects at home. But still there is a long way to go.
KW - Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank
KW - Chinese companies
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Development-forced displacement and resettlement
KW - Green credits
KW - Overseas investment projects
KW - Social stability risk assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031506281&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-19117-1_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-19117-1_9
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
SP - 129
EP - 151
BT - Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
PB - Springer International Publishing Switzerland
ER -