Professor Frank VANCLAY

Prof. VANCLAY is Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural Geography in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Prof. VANCLAY writes in the areas of: social impact assessment; the management of social issues associated with large projects; social licence to operate; business and human rights; social aspects of resource extraction; social aspects of project-induced displacement and resettlement; and avoiding the resource curse. He was the lead author of the guidance document, Social Impact Assessment: Guidance for Assessing and Managing the Social Impacts of Projects, published by IAIA in 2015 (LINK) – also available in Portuguese , Spanish, and Traditional Chinese. 

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