Economic Impact Assessments

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I'm just curious if anyone has done any, and/or if there are any good, credible webpages that might help provide you with a guideline as to how to go about constructing, then implementing one?

I've found a few pages that seem very useful, but I'd feel very negligent without using the resource known as CalgaryPuck.

[northernflame]

Do you mean a Socio-economic assesment or a straight- up EIA? If the latter, than you are primarily dealing with input-output modelling.

For an excellent summary of I/O analysis, Google Methods of Regional Analysis: The Input Output Model (Krishana Akundi). I don't have the link, but I know it's available online.

You might also want to have a look at Community Economic Analysis: A How to Manual (Hustedde, Shaffer and Pulver). This is reference book in a question and answer format that contains some case studies in the appendices.

Remember, EIA is mostly art rather than a science. Make sure you understand the technicalities of I/O analysis (it has some pretty restrictive underlying assumptions that mean one should interpret the results with extreme caution). Be creative and have fun!

[Maritime Q-Scout]

downloaded and saved, thanks man, I'll be thumbing through them this afternoon

[Resolute 14]

Calgarypuck: the lazy man's search engine.

Bingo should take the site on an IPO and challenge Google!

[Maritime Q-Scout]

damn rights!

Google gives you all kinds of crap, especially if you're searching for generalities like "economic impact study"

however Calgary Puck gives you gold... pure gold!

[Winsor_Pilates]

I've seen many Environmental Impact Assessments, but I don't think that's the same thing.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

Economic and Environmental... aren't those opposites

[Clarkey]

Asking a question on a message board like this often gives you information that is a thousand times more helpful and specific than google. It's amazing what this message board technology has done and will do in the future for the dissemination of useful knowledge.