Abstract The Social Impact Assessment (SIA) literature has highlighted the need to focus attention on the most vulnerable groups to improve the management of socio-environmental risk. However, methodological proposals to introduce vulnerability in SIAs are still incipient. The aim of this article is to present a proposal to analyze the role of social vulnerability in the production of risks generated by large infrastructure projects. Taking the theoretical-methodological advances made from the social vulnerability and natural disasters approach, and from the social vulnerability, development and poverty approaches, we have designed a Social Vulnerability Approach (SVA) which we aim at incorporating into the SIA of large infrastructure projects. To illustrate our methodological proposal, the case of the socio-environmental conflict generated by the HydroAysen Project (which entailed the construction of a set of hydroelectric dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in the Chilean Patagonia region) has been selected. Our proposal allows us to identify elements of vulnerability throughout the whole project cycle and, therefore, windows for intervention in order to reduce social vulnerability as well as other kind of hazards that large infrastructure projects may generate on affected populations.

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社会影响评估的社会脆弱性方法

摘要 社会影响评估 (SIA) 文献强调需要将注意力集中在最脆弱的群体上，以改善社会环境风险的管理。然而，在 SIA 中引入脆弱性的方法建议仍处于起步阶段。本文的目的是提出一项建议，分析社会脆弱性在大型基础设施项目产生的风险中的作用。利用社会脆弱性和自然灾害方法以及社会脆弱性、发展和贫困方法的理论方法进步，我们设计了一种社会脆弱性方法 (SVA)，我们旨在将其纳入大型基础设施项目的 SIA。为了说明我们的方法论建议，选择了 HydroAysen 项目（该项目需要在智利巴塔哥尼亚地区的贝克河和帕斯库亚河上建造一组水电大坝）产生的社会环境冲突案例。我们的提议使我们能够确定整个项目周期中的脆弱性因素，从而确定干预窗口，以减少社会脆弱性以及大型基础设施项目可能对受影响人群产生的其他类型的危害。