Scaffolding: Using Social Impact Assessment to Map Framework for Construction Stakeholders’ Engagement

Ekung, Samuel; Effiong, James

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Scaffolding: Using Social Impact Assessment to Map Framework for Construction Stakeholders’ Engagement

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Abstract:

Strategy to construction stakeholders’ engagement in Nigeria is anchored on environmental impact assessment (EIA) law. While EIA is conducted only in large projects, every project continues to witness one form of opposition or another from the community stakeholders. This study examined social impact assessment’s (SIA) procedures as a scaffold to mapping framework for construction stakeholders’ engagement. The objectives were to examine problems associated with the implementation of EIA which hitherto ought to address the social risk triggers in project delivery and to develop a framework embedded in SIA for construction stakeholders’ engagement in Nigeria. The study engaged a sample of 46 respondents comprising project managers, environmental management experts and community stakeholders in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria in a qualitative structured interviewing. Collected data were sorted and analysed. The study reveals extant approach to stakeholders’ management failed as a result of low social context and impact mitigation are based on monetary incentives whereas there are relevant urgent needs to be satisfied. A framework integrating SIA procedures and construction stakeholder engagement strategy was also developed based on the peculiarity of the industry needs. The implication is that construction stakeholders’ management must be structured on satisfying real needs of the citizenry.

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International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (Volume 32)

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154-165

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.32.154

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S. Ekung and J. Effiong, "Scaffolding: Using Social Impact Assessment to Map Framework for Construction Stakeholders’ Engagement", International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Vol. 32, pp. 154-165, 2014

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June 2014

Authors:

Samuel Ekung, James Effiong

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EIA, Framework, Scaffold, SIA, Stakeholders’ Engagement

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