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1. Capacity Building:

Enhancing institutional and human capacities for integrated decision making.

Country Projects
- Round One
- - Synthesis Report
- - Bangladesh
- - Chile
- - India
- - Romania
- - Uganda
- - Philippines

- Round Two

Capacity Building Task Force

Regional and International Meetings and Workshops

2. Manuals and Policy Tools:

Incorporating the Environment into economics and trade policies.

3. Partnerships and Consensus Building:

ETB works intensively with various organisations to develop synergies and build partnerships.

4. Enhancing Awareness:

Clarifying the relationships between trade, environment and development in order to design mutually supportive policies.

5. International Cooperation:

Enhancing cooperation between UNEP, governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.

ETB publications

Publications Archive
Photo of book coverEnvironmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources
A Case Study on Uganda's Fisheries

Economic Policy Research Centre
Year of publication: 1999
Paperback 169 pages




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Who might this report interest?

- national policy makers.
- environmental impact assessment practicioners.
- environmental and natural resource economists.
- trade and development specialists.
- academics.
- fisheries scientists.
- national and international policy research institutions.

This Project:

investigates how trade liberalisation under structural adjustment programmes have fostered substantial growth of Uganda's fisheries industry.

examines both the positive and negative impacts of trade liberalisation on economic, social and environmental systems.

and identifies an array of policy mechanisms, including economic instruments, that can be implemented to maintain sustainability of fisheries' resources and ensure their continued economic exploitation.

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