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UNEP Studies of EIA Practice in Developing Countries

The Compendium of "Studies of EIA Practice in Developing Countries" is a companion volume to the UNEP Environmental Impact Assessment Training Resource Manual. It contains a series of case studies of EIA (and elements of SEA) practice in developing and transitional countries.

The case studies have been prepared by EIA specialists from developing countries to exemplify how the EIA process is implemented in different parts of the developing world and to identify difficulties that are commonly encountered in EIA practice in this context.

It is intended that the case studies will be of use in two main ways:

Firstly, they can be incorporated into customised training materials to give them added relevance and realism.

Secondly, the studies can be used as 'reference points' or 'building blocks' to develop specific cases that reflect experience and issues of EIA practice in a country or region.

The UNEP Environmental Impact Assessment Training Resource Manual is a generic tool kit for use by EIA trainers, particularly those in developing and transitional countries. The main objective is to facilitate the preparation of training courses and materials that are specific to a particular country or region. Resource aids are included to help EIA trainers to identify the needs of participants and to custom-design courses to meet them. There is guidance on the sources of EIA information that will be useful when preparing training courses and materials for each topic. EIA reports and supporting documents have been identified as particularly relevant as a resource for preparing locally appropriate case studies.

However, copies of EIA reports are not always readily obtainable in many developing countries or they may be too descriptive to be easily translated into a case study. Indeed, relatively few case studies of EIA practice in developing countries are available in the literature of the field.

This compendium of cases has been compiled to help fill that gap.


Requests for copies of the above publications should be sent to: EarthPrint

Electronic version of the UNEP Studies of EIA Practice in Developing Countries


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Implementing Sustainable Development

EIA Training Resource Manual, Second Edition

Fisheries and the Environment Series

Environment and Trade

Country Case Studies on Trade and the Environment


ETB Documents and Papers

Documents prepared for the WSSD

UNEP/ETB Briefs on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development

UNEP/ETB Fact Sheets