Environmental assessment as a tool for peacebuilding and development (UNEP & ELI, 2012)
Environmental assessment as a tool for peacebuilding and development (UNEP & ELI, 2012)
Investing in environmental assessment is a focused and cost-effective intervention in post-conflict states because EIAs are a catalytic intervention for environmental governance that has long-lived implications for the sustainability of extractive industries. This chapter outlines some of the challenges to that process in Sierra Leone and describes the ways in which these challenges have been addressed.
Other Projects
Cutting our Losses? Reducing the Illegal Trade in Natural Resources (IISD 2004)
Since independence, the self-governing nations of Melanesia – Papua New The illegal trade of natural resources, such as wildlife and tropical…
Aiding or Abetting? Dilemmas of foreign aid and political instability in Melanesia (IISD, 2005)
Since independence, the self-governing nations of Melanesia – Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Vanuatu – have…
Regional Trade Agreements and conflict: Promoting conflict or building peace (IISD, 2005)
Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) have become defining features of the modern economy and a powerful force for globalization. By the…