Resumen

VERDUZCO CHAVEZ, Basilio  y  VALENZUELA, M. Basilia. Measuring Social Impacts of Energy Projects at the Small Scale Level: Methodological Problems and Policy Implications. Gest. polít. pública [online]. 2019, vol.28, n.2, pp.377-406.  Epub 30-Mayo-2020. ISSN 1405-1079.  https://doi.org/10.29265/gypp.v28i2.624.

Following the experience of an international epistemic community, Mexico introduced in the constitutional reform approved in 2013, and secondary legislation enacted in 2014, the obligation to present a social impact assessment for all energy projects. This article identifies methodological problems when trying to measure social changes and impacts and explores the implications of such problems for consensus building in impact management. A comparative study of four cases of social impact assessments conducted between 2014 and 2017 provides the evidence to argue that adoption of this instrument induces the elaboration of social impact assessments with a quantitative orientation, which performs better for large-scale projects, but faces problems in small-scale cases. Evidence suggests the need to make adjustments on the institutional framework to open room in social impact assessments to consider contextual variations for different project scales, the existence of other projects and to allow more methodological experimentation.

Palabras llave : social impact assessment; energy projects; epistemic community; electricity; consensus building; methodological experimentation; energy reform.

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