Important social impacts are missing from the lists. Occupational health
and safety issues provide a good example. Disease, death and injury are
social impacts that can be the direct or indirect result of a project, for
example increased traffic in a neighbourhood or increased exposure to
vector-borne diseases in irrigation schemes. Another example of social
impacts that have been absent from previous consideration is changes in
human rights situations: social impacts in the form of violation of human
rights can occur when governments use force to implement a project, or
when public opposition to the project is suppressed.