Impact analysis - the social audit approach

Social audit techniques have been used increasingly during the 1980s recession. They represent an important means of extending impact assessment into the area of community social and economic costs. In this paper some of the experience of recent work in this field is discussed, concentrating on matters of continuing major debate. The discussion is taken further by considering how social audit techniques might have to be broadened to cater for new project proposals, in the process providing some useful additional areas for examination applicable to all social audits. -Author