| 1) Achieve extensive understanding of local and regional settings to be affected |
| a—Identify and describe interested and affected stakeholders and other parties |
| b—Develop baseline information of local and regional communities |
| 2) Focus on key elements of human environment |
| a—Identify the key social and cultural aspects related to the action or policy from the community and stakeholder profiles |
| b—Select social and cultural variables that measure and explain the issues identified |
| 3) Identify methodologies of research, hypothesis and relevances |
| a—Methodologies must have holistic scope, i.e., they must describe all aspects of the social impacts related to intervention or politics |
| b—Methodologies must describe cumulative social effects related to intervention or politics |
| c—To ensure that methodologies and forecasts are clear and replicable |
| d—To select manners and level of data collect analysis appropriate for the importance of the intervention or politics |
| 4) Provide quality information for use in decision-making |
| a—To collect information, whether quantitative and qualitative, about social, economic and cultural aspects which are sufficient and useful to describe and rationally analyze the alternatives for the intervention. |
| b—To ensure that the data collection, methodologies and analysis models are scientifically robust |
| c—To ensure the integrity of the collected information |
| 5) To ensure that any subject related to the environmental justice is fully described and analyzed |
| a—To ensure that the research methods, data and analysis consider population and underrepresented vulnerable actors |
| b—To consider the distribution of all impacts (whether they are social, economic, air quality, noise or potential health effect) in different social groups, including ethnic and racial and migratory groups |
| 6) To undertake assessment/monitoring and mitigation |
| a—To establish assessment mechanisms and monitoring of interventions, politics or programs |
| b—Where the impact mitigation is required, provide planning and mechanism to ensure the mitigation efficiency. |
| c—Identification of gaps in data and planning for the fulfillment of required data |