ABSTRACT Social impact assessment (SIA) is experiencing both evolutionary and revolutionary forces for change. Using the example of New South Wales, Australia, forces for change include community pressure and shifting expectations, industry desire for clarity and certainty, departmental leadership, a collaborative approach to policy development, and perceived legitimacy of the guideline itself. Inhibiting these forces are general resistance to change, a concern around costs of good SIA, unfamiliarity with social sciences, and insufficient practitioner capacity. The recent Rocky Hill judgement, which highlights concepts such as community cohesion, sense of place, and distributive equity, may accelerate change. However, there is also a need to build capacity among SIA practitioners, and afford sufficient time and budget to meet the standard of leading-practice guidelines. At the same time, unfolding trends such as the climate change and extinction crises, the gendered nature of development, ever-widening inequalities, and ‘post-truth’ discourses may catalyse more revolutionary change in SIA practice – changes that paradoxically may enable SIA to reclaim its social-science principles and the overarching goal of sustainable social development.

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社会影响评估的变革力量

摘要社会影响评估（SIA）正经历着变革的革命力量和革命力量。以澳大利亚新南威尔士州为例，变革的力量包括社区压力和不断变化的期望，行业对清晰度和确定性的渴望，部门领导，政策制定的协作方法以及指南本身的合法性。抑制这些力量是对变革的普遍抵抗，对良好的SIA成本，对社会科学的不熟悉以及从业者能力不足的担忧。最近落基山（Rocky Hill）的判决强调了社区凝聚力，位置感和分配公平性等概念，可能会加速变革。但是，还需要在SIA从业人员中建立能力，并有足够的时间和预算来满足领先实践准则的标准。同时，诸如气候变化和灭绝危机，发展的性别性质，不平等现象不断扩大以及“后真理”之类的话语等不断发展的趋势可能会催生SIA实践中的更多革命性变化，这些变化反常可能使SIA能够重申其社会科学原则和可持续社会发展的总体目标。