Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in addressing development-induced disasters: a comparison of the EIA processes of Sri Lanka and New Zealand

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Effectiveness of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in addressing development-induced disasters: a comparison of the EIA processes of Sri Lanka and New Zealand

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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Disasters are no longer viewed as natural events, but as the results of ill-planned development and poor governance. It has been generally accepted that instruments such as Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reduce disaster risks of development projects. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the EIA process in addressing disaster risks in development projects in Sri Lanka and New Zealand, two countries with quite different quality of g...

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2016-03

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Hapuarachchi, AB / Hughey, Kenneth / Rennie, Hamish

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8196

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disaster risk / EIA / governance / development-induced disasters / effectiveness / donor influence / Environment Policy / Environmental Politics / Environmental Impact Assessment / Comparative Government and Politics / Physical geography and environmental geoscience

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