Capacity-Building for Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

This section of the site details the outputs from the CBBIA-IAIA project, listed alphabetically by region and country. Documents are available free for downloading, and can be found either by searching these lists by document type, or searching for country-by-country output.

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Brazil

Garcia, K.C., La Rovere, E.L. Inclusion of Environmental Risk Assessment within Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), as a way to ensure the biodiversity conservation in Brazilian oil and gas Exploration & Production (E&P) offshore areas. pdf 0.6Mb

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Bulgaria

Örs Marczin, Plamen Peev (2006) Strengthening the capacity of Bulgarian environmental authorities and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) experts concerning the integration of biodiversity aspects in SEA procedures. pdf 0.3Mb

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Central America

Aguilar Rojas, G. Central America Guidelines for EIA. pdf 2.5Mb

Aguilar Rojas, G. Biodiversity and Impact Assessment in Central America. pdf 0.9Mb

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Costa Rica

Castro-Salazar, M. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assesment: Costa Rica and Central America. pdf 2.2Mb

Castro-Salazar, M. Biodiversity and Impact Assessment: The Costa Rican experience policy and legistation. pdf 0.5Mb

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Democratic Republic of Congo

Ekhassa, B. Impacts d'une décennie des guerres sur la biodiversité dans les aires protégées en RDC [A decade of impacts of war on the protected areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo] (in French only). pdf 3.5Mb

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Ghana

Allotey, J. Status of Biodiversity and Impact Assessment in Ghana. pdf 0.1Mb

Amoyaw-Osei, Y., Fellows, H. Examples of biodiversity IA issues in Ghana. pdf 0.1Mb

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India

Mathur, V.B. Development of Best Practice Guidance Tools: Initiatives in India. pdf 5Mb

Mathur, V., Rajvanshi, A. Integrating biodiversity considerations in SEA of an irrigation project in Central India. pdf 1.0Mb

Rajvanshi, A. Capacity building for biodiversity and Impact Assessment: needs in India. pdf 0.4Mb

Rajvanshi, A. Status of biodiversity and impact assessment in India. pdf 1.5Mb

Rajvanshi, A. Strategic Environmental Assessment of the India Ecodevelopment Project: A review of prospects and challenges for biodiversity conservation. pdf 0.4Mb

Rajvanshi, A. Evaluation of irrigation tunnel project through Pench Tiger Reserve in India. Case study of the application of the precautionary principle to biodiversity conservation. pdf 7.2Mb

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Lao PDR

Sylavong, L. Monitoring of Infrastructure Impacts on Biodiversity: Nam Ha National Protected Area. pdf 0.3Mb

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Lebanon

Biodiversity manual: A tool for biodiversity integration in EIA and SEA. pdf 2.4Mb

(Ministry of the Environment, Lebanon) Biodiversity & Impact Assessment in Lebanon: current situation. pdf 1.3Mb

(Ministry of the Environment, Lebanon) Biodiversity & Impact Assessment in Lebanon: needs. pdf 0.6Mb

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Malaysia

Vun Leong Wan. Strengthening biodiversity consideration in EIA and SEA in Malaysia. pdf 0.2Mb

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Nepal

Uprety, B.K. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assessment in Nepal: issues, strengths and weaknesses. pdf 0.7Mb

Uprety, B.K. Erosion of ethics: a case of hydropower EIA reports in Nepal. pdf 0.1Mb

Uprety, B.K. From Vancouver to Boston: Integrating Biodiversity into Impact Assessment in Nepal. pdf 4.5Mb

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Réunion

Boulejiouch, Renforcement des Capacités Biodiversité et Etudes d'Impacts Réunion du 24-25 Avril 2004 [in French]. pdf 3.3Mb

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South Africa

Author unknown. Provision for SEA in South Africa's Policies, Legislation and Programmes. pdf 0.2Mb

Brownlie, S. South Africa: Needs for capacity building, support, advice, guidance. pdf 1.5Mb

Brownlie, S. Biodiversity & IA in South Africa: key issues. pdf 3.2Mb

S. Brownlie, C. de Villiers, J. Manuel. Review of the effectiveness of the Botanical Society’s input to Environmental Impact Assessments in the Western Cape, South Africa. pdf 0.95Mb

Naicker, I. Capacity Building for Biodiversity Impact Assessment (CBBIA) in a "Mega-diverse" region. pdf 0.2Mb

Olivier, E. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assessment on a Local Authority level. South African perspective: Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. pdf 3.5Mb

Olivier, E. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assessment on a Local Authority level. South African perspective: Local Authority. pdf 0.5Mb

Olivier, E. Possible Methods of Entrenching Biodiversity Principles into all aspects of the Ekurhuleni Integrated Development Plan (IDP). pdf 3.4Mb

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Southern Africa

Cover of SEA training notes

Guidance on Integration of Biodiversity Issues in Impact Assessment and Decision Making in Southern Africa

SAIEA (2006) Situation Assessment on the integration of Biodiversity Issues in Impact Assessment and Decision Making in Southern Africa.

Willemse, N. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assessment, Southern Africa. pdf 0.2Mb

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South and South-east Asia

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IUCN Pakistan (2006) Needs Assessment Survey Report for the South/South East Asia Programme of CBBIA

Rajvanshi, A., Mathur, V.B. and Iftikhar, U.A. (2007) Best Practice Guidelines for biodiversity inclusive impact assessment

The guidance manual presented below is in draft form only. Contents may change slightly in the final form.

Sattar, N. Biodiversity and Impact Assessment in Asian Countries (presentation B). pdf 3.2Mb

Sattar, N. Biodiversity and Impact Assessment in Asian Countries (presentation A). pdf 1.9Mb

Sattar, N., Saeed, A. Capacity Building in Biodiversity and Impact Assessment, Asia: Tentative Workplan. pdf 0.65Mb

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Sri Lanka

(Anon.) Existing Guidance on Biodiversity and Impact Assessment [in Sri Lanka]. pdf 0.08Mb

(Anon.) EIA in Sri Lanka. pdf 0.1Mb

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Tanzania

Kahyarara, G. and Mchallo, I. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of Tourism Development in the Northern Tourist Circuit of Tanzania. pdf 1.1Mb

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Tunisia

Nafti, R. Biodiversity and Impact Assessment in Tunisie. pdf 0.4Mb

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Turkey

Albayrak, A. Biodiversity of Turkey (notes accompanying slides). pdf 0.16Mb

Albayrak, A. Key stages of the Turkish EIA process. pdf 0.06Mb

Albayrak, A. Content of the Turkish EIA study. pdf 0.04Mb

Albayrak, A. Requirements for improving the Turkish EIA system. pdf 0.02Mb

Albayrak, A. Biodiversity and EIA linkages in Turkey. pdf 0.6Mb

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Venezuela

Castillo, C.C. (notes accompanying slides in following presentation). pdf 0.05Mb

Castillo, C.C. Environmental Impact Assessment and Biodiversity in Venezuela. pdf 0.08Mb

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Yemen

Al-Gunied, H. Integration of Biodiversity Considerations into Environmental Impact Assessment Process In The Republic of Yemen. pdf 0.2Mb

Al-Gunied, H. Capacity Building Project: The Integration of Biodiversity Considerations into EIA Process. pdf 0.4Mb

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