Social and environmental assessment to promote sustainability : an informal view from the World Bank (English)

This report compares the history of Environmental Assessment (EA) and Social Assessment (SA) in the World Bank, in order to draw "lessons learned" to improve development. The main need-to shift attention from the EA report to implementation on the ground-has been started recently (Goodland and Mercier 1999), so this paper focuses on process. The history of social and economic assessments shows how scarce social and natural capital is being converted...

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Goodland,Robert James;
Document Date
2000/01/31
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Departmental Working Paper
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20977
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1
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1
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2010/07/01
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Social and environmental assessment to promote sustainability : an informal view from the World Bank
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Environmental and Social Impact

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Goodland,Robert James.

Social and environmental assessment to promote sustainability : an informal view from the World Bank (English). Environment Department working papers ; no. 74. Environmental Management series Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/263231468739184595

Social and environmental assessment to promote sustainability : an informal view from the World Bank (English)

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