Environmental & Social Impact Assessments

Wardell Armstrong have undertaken ESIA’s as well as high level Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA’s) throughout the world for a diverse range of activities including gold, base-metal and energy minerals. Our ESIA work enables assessment of all impacts of a proposed project, prepared in accordance with good practice and bank funding requirements.

The social element of our ESIA work covers a diverse range of topics including:

• Local stakeholder analysis
• Baseline socio-economic, demographic and ethnological studies
• Health, education, employment and social infrastructure studies
• Livelihood analysis
• Mapping of local cultural, political and religious practices and beliefs and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
• Assessing potential displacement and required resettlement plans
• Impact causation, risk assessment and significance
• Determining potential conflicts, fears, aspirations and expectations
• Assessment of potential mitigation measures and coping strategies
• Framework closure and post-mining social legacy plans