Social Impact Assessment in Tehran Municipality (Systematic review of SIA reports)

The present paper aims to review the social impact assessment reports conducted by Tehran Municipality and to specify their pros and cons with a focus on the variables affecting the current conditions of this field of research. With that end in view, after several stages of screening 89 reports was selected and systematically reviewed with a qualitative approach and an in-depth perspective in order to study their various structural, formal and content specifications and to identify available faults. Therefore the first step was to develop a protocol and design an instrument to extract needed information from the reports. In the next step, descriptive outputs were taken from the software to give the designed indicators comparability, and in the end an overall image of these reports was provided.