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- A Strategic Environmental Assessment of Fiji's Tourism Development Plan (PDF) pop
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Prepared by Roger Levett & Richard McNally, Worldwide Fund for Nature South Pacific Programme (WWF-SPP) Suva, Fiji May 2003. The World Wide Fund for Nature - South Pacific Programme (WWF-SPP) and ADB formed a partnership agreement to carry out a 'Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of Fiji's Tourism Development Plan'. This case study was chosen because tourism is the fastest growing industry in Fiji with potentially significant impacts on its natural and social environment.
http://www.adb.org/projects/pres/pres_case_05.pdf
(Added: Fri Jul 25 2003 Modified: Mon Nov 28 2005 Hits: 917)
- 2006 Environmental Performance Index
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By identifying specific targets for environmental performance and measuring how close each country comes to these established goals, the Pilot 2006 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) provides benchmarks for current national pollution control and natural resource management results. The issue-by-issue and aggregate rankings facilitate cross-country comparisons both globally and within relevant peer groups. The EPI thus provides a powerful tool for improving policymaking and shifting environmental decisionmaking onto firmer analytic foundations.
(Added: Thu Feb 02 2006 Hits: 322)
- Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment: A Guide
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The Access Initiative has developed a set of tools to help civil society groups measure how well governments are performing on access to information, public participation, and justice in decision-making for the environment. These tools are available in the new CD-ROM publication, Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment: A Guide. The Guide describes our unique methodology and includes more than 150 research questions designed to measure law and practice in the following areas: * Degree of access to selected types of Information about the Environment; * Degree of Public Participation in decision-making processes; and * Comprehensiveness and quality of Capacity Building efforts to encourage informed and meaningful public participation. In addition, the Guide provides detailed and user-friendly instructions for all phases of the assessment, including assembling a coalition, launching a study, selecting cases and research methods, finalizing data, and using findings to stimulate tangible results.
http://www.accessinitiative.org/how_to_guide.html
(Added: Thu Jan 19 2006 Hits: 444)
- Assessing the Ecological Footprint: A look at the WWF's Living Planet Report 2002
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This report assesses the analytical capability of the concept of ecological footprints. The concept was applied in the latest WWF report: "Living Planet Report 2002". Ecological footprint is used to measure whether we demand more than the Earth can provide sustainably. According to WWF our demand exceeds Earth's supply and we will be faced with a collapse in human welfare in the near future. Our report concludes that the ecological footprint is a weak analytical tool that should not be applied in sustainability discussions. The ecological footprint rests on a restrictive understanding of sustainability and it makes use of questionable assumptions - the most serious being that we should raise forests in order to solve the problem of carbon dioxide emissions.
(Added: Thu Nov 07 2002 Modified: Thu Oct 05 2006 Hits: 274)
- Environmental Assessment - The European Union
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This site provides some valuable resources on Environmental Impact Assessment for projects (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment for policies, plans and programmes (SEA). The aim is to ensure that significant environmental impacts are identified and assessed and taken into account in the decision-making process to which the public can participate.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/eia/home.htm
(Added: Thu Dec 13 2001 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 332)
- Environmental Assessment at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
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Assessing the environmental implications of projects, programs, and policies has become an integral part of planning and implementation at CIDA. EA helps ensure that environmental concerns are addressed at an early stage, and that projects are designed with environmental sustainability in mind. The EA process also offers many diverse stakeholders the opportunity to participate in community development. This site has useful information and resources for the field of environmental assessment.
(Added: Thu Dec 13 2001 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 316)
- Environmental Assessment in Countries in Transition (CITs)
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Environmental Assessment (EIA & SEA) legislation and practice are rapidly changing in the transitional countries (CITs) of Central and Eastern Europe, Mongolia and the NIS. This site is a forum for exchanging ideas and information on how to improve EA practice in CITs. It was initiated by participants of the CEU Summer Universities in 1996-1998, and has since expanded to involve wider audiences and cover broader EA issues.
http://www.ceu.hu/envsci/eianetwork/
(Added: Thu Dec 13 2001 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 233)
- Environmental Management Guide for Australia's Aid Program
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This guide provides an overview of AusAID's environmental management system (EMS) and outlines the steps to be followed in environmental assessment of activities and procedures for managing likely environmental impacts. The Guide specifies the obligations of contractors and NGOs involved in designing or implementing AusAID or AusAID funded projects and programs. Contractors and NGOs should note that the Guide is a draft and will be trialled over the next six months.
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pubout.cfm?Id=2297_1393_1917_9648_6600&Type=PubPolicyDocuments
(Added: Tue Feb 19 2002 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 269)
- Guide to Greener Electronics
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This Guide ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers. Companies are ranked solely on information that is publicly available. Use this guide to inform yourself before making purchases.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/greener-electronics-guide
(Added: Fri Sep 08 2006 Hits: 224)
- International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment - Final Report - Environmental
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The International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment (EA) is a joint exercise by a number of partner countries and international organizations. It was initiated and led by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) in collaboration with the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). Prepared by Barry Sadler, June 1996. From the Australian EIA Network.
http://www.ea.gov.au/assessments/eianet/eastudy/final/chapter1.html
(Added: Thu Dec 13 2001 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 294)
- Outflanked : the World Trade Organisation, international trade and sustainable development
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It is clear that the relationship between trade liberalisation and the environment is an uneasy one. It appears that the main international focus has been on the liberalisation of trade, with the benefits that this may bring, while failing to recognise the full environmental or social impacts that this liberalisation may have. It is paramount that, where liberalisation is pursued, effective accompanying measures are adopted to prevent or limit the environmental and social impacts. Without such measures, international trade liberalisation is only likely to add to environmental degradation. Moves to address environment-trade issues may ultimately prove inadequate unless the WTO can be used to ensure that sustainable development is more fully considered in trade negotiations, and unless Millennium Ecosystem Assessments (MEAs) are able to protect the environment without the risk of contravening WTO rules. (House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, November 2006)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmenvaud/1455/1455.pdf
(Added: Wed Feb 14 2007 Hits: 152)
- Take the Ecological Footprint Quiz!
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The Ecological Footprint Quiz is based on national consumption averages and is meant to give you an idea of your Ecological Footprint relative to other people in the country you live in. It is not highly detailed, but should give most people an idea of where they stand. The Ecological Footprint provides a means to compare various components of consumption and ultimately serve as an indicator of sustainability - or, in the case of deficits, of unsustainability. (EarthDay Network)
http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index_reset.asp?pid=8577234158223794
(Added: Fri Sep 01 2006 Hits: 129)
- The Environmental Assessment Sourcebook
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The Sourcebook is designed to assist all those involved in environmental assessment (EA). They include the environmental assessors themselves, project designers and World Bank task managers (TMs). This focus supports an important premise of EA, that sustainable development is achieved most efficiently when negative environmental impacts are identified and addressed at the earliest possible planning stage. The Sourcebook provides practical guidance for designing just such sustainable Bank-assisted projects.
(Added: Wed Dec 01 1999 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 334)
- The Happy Planet Index: An Index of Human Well-Being and Environmental Impact
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The Happy Planet Index (HPI) seeks to measure the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered. It compares countries based on three different indicators: life expectancy; ecological footprint; and people's subjective well-being or "life satisfaction". In putting forward the HPI as an alternative measure of success, this report argues for greater attention to environmental and quality of life consequences of government policies. (New Economics Foundation - NEF, 2006)
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/dl44k145g5scuy453044gqbu11072006194758.pdf
(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006 Hits: 174)
- The International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site
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The site offers a section with international news, a full Web directory with links to all information related to CER that can be found on the Web and a Gallery of Awards with an overview of all Awards Schemes for CER's all over the world.
http://www.enviroreporting.com/
(Added: Mon Feb 23 2004 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 250)
- The Little Green Data Book 2005 [PDF]
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World Bannk, 2005. The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized quick reference on key environmental data. Each page corresponds to one country. The user-friendly presentation of country data provides a baseline for comparison with regional and income group averages. Under the headings of agriculture, forests, biodiversity, energy, emissions and pollution, water and sanitation, and 'greener' national accounts, the Little Green data Book presents 47 indicators of the environment and its relationship to people for more than 200 countries.
(Added: Tue Apr 26 2005 Modified: Thu Jun 01 2006 Hits: 209)
- Understanding Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation (PDF 2013 KB)
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2004. This document represents United Nations Environment Programme's response to the growing worldwide interest in further exploring the environment and security nexus and the contribution of timely and credible assessments to conflict prevention. Consultations in January 2004 enabled governments to identify as a priority the need for scientific assessments of the link between environment and conflict in order to promote conflict prevention and peace building. UNEP's mandate for this work is consistent with the broader UN goal of promoting peace and security, and follows from the Montevideo Programme III adopted by the Governing Council in 2001, in which UNEP was encouraged to promote "studies on the concept of security and the environment." As an initial step in the new global initiative, UNEP's Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA) organized a conference in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., on "Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation: Scoping Gaps and Opportunities for Research and Policy Agendas" in December 2003. Researchers and policymakers from a variety of disciplines and continents gathered to discuss what role UNEP can take to further the understanding of the relationship between environment and conflict. The chapters in this document were presented at the meeting, and then revised according to the subsequent discussion. UNEP intends to continue its work on environment and conflict prevention, and the chapters presented here help to establish a foundation for this future work.
http://www.unep.org/PDF/ECC.pdf
(Added: Wed Jan 26 2005 Modified: Thu Jun 09 2005 Hits: 368)
