Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Environmental and social impact assessments do overlap, since a single project affects both the natural environment and the surrounding communities.

The Assertion is not correct because it claims the two assessments never overlap.

The Reason is correct as the two are often treated as opposite ends of the same assessment spectrum, one focused on nature and the other on people.

In practice they are frequently combined into a single environmental and social impact assessment.

An issue like displacement, for example, has both environmental and social dimensions that the two studies share.

Integrating both helps decision-makers weigh a project's full range of consequences.