ABSTRACT SIA is a recognised form of impact assessment, and is implemented in many parts of the world. The difference between emerging and developed economies provides a background to the social context in which SIA takes place, and project-scale benefits of SIA are often lost due to factors that operate at a much broader scale. Deteriorating governance and increased migration in the context of increased economic and well-being disparities are examples that decrease the efficacy of SIA in emerging economies. The approaches that have been crafted in SIA can be strategically focussed on the well-being of communities. SIA methods can be focussed on policy level which is where many future social impacts must be mitigated. The challenges that are going to be faced in the 21st Century are complex societal issues that present on scales larger than the project scale. SIA should be divorced from project-level compliance where it is often reduced to a tick-box exercise and transformed into a defined discipline that serves a strategic function at a broader, strategic scale. Abbreviations: SIA - social impact assessment

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在社会不平等盛行的未来，社会影响评估能否改善社会福祉？

摘要SIA是一种公认​​的影响评估形式，已在世界许多地方实施。新兴经济体与发达经济体之间的差异为发生SIA的社会环境提供了背景，而SIA的项目规模收益往往由于范围更广的因素而丧失。在经济和福祉差距日益扩大的背景下，治理恶化和移民增加是降低新兴经济体在新兴经济体中效力的例子。SIA中制定的方法可以在战略上集中于社区的福祉。SIA方法可以集中在政策级别，在此必须减轻许多未来的社会影响。21世纪将面临的挑战是复杂的社会问题，其规模大于项目规模。SIA应该与项目级别的合规性脱节，后者通常被简化为复选框，并转变为在更广泛的战略规模中担当战略职能的明确学科。缩写：SIA-社会影响评估