Part I

Draft Black Sea Regional Transmission Project ESIA
intended and unintended, positive and negative. For significant impacts, the developer would
implement a variety of mitigation measures, and these are discussed in Chapter 6.
Nature of
change
Temporary
Table 1-2. Duration of Impacts
Duration
Short-term
Medium-term
Long-term
Permanent -
Definition/ Description
Impact continues during construction (1-2 yrs)
and up to 1 year following construction
Impact continues 1-5 years following
construction
Impact continues 5-10 years after construction
Due to the length of time period for human
beings, impacts over 10 years can subjectively
be defined as permanent.
Generally, the social impact assessment process involves the following major tasks:
Identifying types of adverse and beneficial impacts of the proposed action.
Assessing the level of socioeconomic risks in terms of frequency (how likely is
it to happen) and consequences.
Assessing the acceptability of the risks.
Introducing mitigation measures to reduce risks to acceptable level.
The social impact assessment typically addresses the following issues:
Demographics, including changes in local population size,
emigration/immigration in the area, migration of people in search of work, and
other issues.
Economic issues, including supply chain impacts, local sourcing
opportunities, potential impacts on local markets for goods and services,
employment opportunities for construction, operation and decommissioning
phases of the project.
Health issues, including risks of new diseases to indigenous communities,
impacts on health of operations personnel and local communities, impact of
local diseases on workers.
Social infrastructure, including adequacy of health care and education
facilities, transport and roads, power supply, fresh water supply to support
project activities and personnel as well as the local communities.
Resources, including land use changes, increased access to rural or remote
areas, use of natural resources.
Cultural, including issues associated with sites that have archaeological,
historical, religious, cultural, or aesthetic values.
Social equity, including local social groups who will gain or lose as a result of
the project or operation.
As with environmental impacts, a general method for grading the significance of
socioeconomic impacts was adopted to ensure consistency in the terminology of
significance, whether for a beneficial or an adverse impact. The two principal criteria used
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