Sierra Leone is blessed with abundant natural resources but yet prone to environmental degradation due to the mining operations. Most often, the mining communities are faced with social tensions, as a result of the possible trade-off between the expected employment impact and the cost of mining operations to the environment. Over the past decades, the contribution of the mining sector to the de...

In this response to Dusík and Bond, I reflect on what taxonomies of sustainable investment will need be able deliver in order add value our existing efforts towards making development more environmentally sustainable. What support should provide for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) policies, plans programmes impact (EIA) projects, as well cost-benefit analysis (CBA) plans, projects is d...

 Due to the growth of population and industrialization, a great number of problems associated with producing industrial wastes have been created for both the environment and human beings. The industrial waste management in Brujen industrial park, located in the western part of Iran, has been investigated in this study using the environmental rapid impact assessment matrix techn...

Abstract The cooling demand in buildings has increased over the past decades due to global warming, heat-island-effect cities and airtightness thermal resistance of building envelope. This led an use conventional air-conditioners, which now account for 7% greenhouse gas emissions 10% total energy consumption. In this context, MIRACLE project aims at developing a new Photonic Meta-Concrete (PMC)...

The environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a nearly universal instrument intended to limit or offset the tolls of development projects. Here, I describe some key shortcomings EIAs in terms their real-world application, especially developing nations that harbor much world’s imperiled biodiversity. A surprisingly large number suffer from major inaccuracies and are green-lighting projects will h...

The principal aim of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is to foster sustainable development. Sustainability can be conceived along a ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ continuum, in which the latter holds that substitution natural capital severely limited, evidence suggests weak sustainability prevails decision-making supported by EIA. Therefore, based on assumption strong required goal protect biodiversi...

This paper discusses an experiment with a formative method for ethical impact assessment (EIA) in the context of IT design for multi-agency crisis management that draws on scenarios and role-playing to ground ethics in a broader socio-technical domain not just in user needs and values. Contextualising the EIA discussions in this way opened up new avenues for addressing ethical concerns, broaden...

The rapid growth of renewable energy developments, particularly offshore wind, means that worldwide there are hundreds artificial structures in the marine environment will at some point require removal. Decommissioning activities can have a range effects on environment, which assessed through an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) prior to EIA provides opportunity explore best environmental o...