ABSTRACT
The assessment of the socioeconomic impacts of natural resource developments entails the use of procedures and methodologies from diverse fields including economics, demography, sociology, public service planning, fiscal analysis, and several others. In interfacing components from two or more computational sets, principles that reflect impact projection processes, the characteristics of the components to be integrated, the units of the interface and the interface process are required. One of the factors that have caused Inconsistency in some Impact analyses has been the failure to employ consistent interface methodologies in both baseline and impact projections. The need to retain the essential aspects of each component is an evident, but often neglected, factor in interfacing projections from different substantive areas. In many impact interfaces, simplifications of each component often occur prior to the interfacing of the components. A majority of the interfaces between socioeconomic components utilize a single factor interface.
