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  Environmental and Social Assessment

 

Oil and Gas pipelines
Social and Environmental Impact Assessment
State of the Art

How the World Bank Should Cut Poverty
and Help Make the World Environmentally Sustainable


Guyana
Social and Environmental Impact Reconnaissance
of Gold Dredging on Indigenous Peoples in the Upper Mazaruni

Violence
The Institutionalized Use of Force In Economic Development

Suriname
BHPBilliton/Suralco's Bakhuys Bauxite Mine Project

Suriname
Bakhuis Bauxite Mine: An Independent Review of SRK's Impact Assessment

This…has four goals. First…to help people who may be impacted by the Bakhuis bauxite project to understand what the impacts…may be, how to prevent or minimize these impacts, and how the impacted communities might ensure that the potential benefits of the project outweigh the potential damages. Second…to assist the impacted communities should the project resume. Third..to review the (draft) ESIA…and show how their deficiencies may be rectified…Fourth…to enable joint learning on how to embark properly on ESIAs regarding projects that affect Indigenous and Maroon Peoples…[refers to Suralco, Alcoa, BHP Billiton, SRK Corp]. 
Published by: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Individualcompanies/A/Alcoa

How the world bank could lead the world in alleviating climate change
Oxford  Univ Climate Change speech

2008: "How Libya Could Become Environmentally Sustainable" (from: Libyan Studies 39: 145-160)

2009  Book: "Philippines: Mining or Food?"  247 pp:

2009 "Community Engagement in Extractive Industries":  47 pp
             How to engage potentially impacted communities while planning
             and operating extractive industries.  Helps foster FPIC.

 

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