Report on the first data collection for the later Social Impact Analysis

At the beginning of the project a baseline analysis will establish the existing social conditions and the main stakeholders thinking norms and values thus providing a benchmark against which potential social impacts can be assessed We apply questionnaire standard and structured interviews and monitoring as research method in the preimpact and postimpact period At the end of the project an impact significance assessment is introduced to measure the extent to which the potentially impacted communities and stakeholders have been affected whether positively or negatively