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The purpose of a socio-economic & environmental assessment (SEEA) is to provide plan architects, stakeholders, & decision makers with background on the socio-economic structure of the plan area & its communities, a description of the key socio-economic parameters that may be impacted by resolution of the resource use management issues to be addressed by the plan, and an assessment of the expected socio-economic impacts of the plan and/or alternate management scenarios relative to a base case. This document presents guiding principles for use when carrying out a SEEA in British Columbia, focussing on socio-economic assessment. The principles are relevant for all levels of land & coastal use plans, including land & resource management plans and sustainable resource management plans. Topics covered in the principles include methods of analysis, defining land use options, data review & presentation, assessing current & future economic development, estimating net resource value, government finance & Aboriginal community impacts, and documentation of stakeholder preferences.
In 2001, the British Columbia government endorsed phase I (the framework agreement) of the Central Coast Land & Coastal Resource Management Plan, which delineated protected areas, management zones, 7 other types of planning areas for a 4.8 million hectare region of the British Columbia coast. This report summarizes the agreement and presents an assessment of the socio-economic impact of the agreement. In the assessment, impacts on such factors as employment and existing & foregone economic activity are compared between the base case (absence of the Plan) and the land use regime specified in the agreement. Assessments are presented for the following sectors: forestry, tourism & recreation, commercial fisheries, aquaculture, mining & energy, agriculture, botanical forest products & trapping, and community/First Nations concerns.