Santiago Enriquez

This book provides a pragmatic framework for designing representative studies and developing uniform sampling guidelines to support estimates of morbidity that are explicitly linked to exposure to land-based contaminants from used lead-acid battery recycling (ULAB) activities. A primary goal is to support the environmental burden of disease evaluat...

The Environmental Challenges for Green Growth and Poverty Reduction in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic report reveals strong linkages among environmental quality, economic growth, and social wellbeing of the nation’s 7 million inhabitants. This report is a comprehensive presentation prepared after two years of targeted diagnostic research and...

The transition to a circular economy requires the mobilization of resources and investments that support the adoption and upscale of ecological design and new technologies and business models. Policy instruments, including economic instruments, play a key role in ensuring that the prices of goods and services reflect the economic damages or benefit...

Approximately 4.1 million people live in the three states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche. Some 30 municipalities are in a coastal territory of almost 2,000 linear kilometers, from the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico to the world-renowned beaches of Cancún, just north of the second-largest barrier reef in the world. T...

The paper reviews the EIA systems at the national level in seven countries of South Asia. It also discusses the differences and similarities among the main elements of current EIA procedures, considering aspects such as the nature of the EIA instrument, the institutional leadership and inter-agency coordination, screening and scoping processes, pub...

Examines the evolution of Pakistan’s air quality management (AQM) framework from 1993 to 2013, discussing policy options for strengthening environmental protection agencies (EPAs), while taking into account the devolution of environmental management responsibilities, and providing an assessment of the country’s capacity to monitor outdoor air pollu...

International Organizations and Development Banks (IODBs) shared global experience which helped Pakistan in its adoption of environmental impact assessment (EIA) system. From a procedural standpoint, IODBs have been effective in complying with their internal policies and procedures on environmental assessment. While the substantive effectiveness of...

This paper reviews the strategic environmental assessments (SEAs) that were prepared to incorporate environmental considerations in water supply and sanitation sector (WSS) reforms in Argentina and Colombia. Based on the reviewed cases and on existing literature, the paper proposes a methodology specifically designed to incorporate environmental co...