The law and practice on Environmental Impact Assessments (EAIS) in Zambia: strengths and weaknessesThis article reviews the Zambian EIA laws against a set of criteria to determine their strengths and weaknesses. The criteria employed include, the legal origins and the procedural aspects of the EIA...
Several critical migration routes and pathways of human exposure to PTEs in ASGM exist. Firstly, there is a common occurrence of incidental ingestion of soils, especially by young children and pregnant women that exhibit pica (Dooyema et al.2012b; Gottesfeld et al.2015; Moyo et al.2021; Nya...
Like environmental rule of law itself, this toolbox continues to evolve and adapt. There are new challenges (such as the pandemic) and new opportunities (such as social reckoning); and in many cases, the challenges and opportunities intersect (such as technologies). Practitioners, scholars and ...
Prediction of climate change impacts on heatstroke cases in Japan's 47 prefectures with the effect of long-term heat adaptation Kazutaka Oka, Yasushi Honda, Vera Ling Hui Phung, Yasuaki Hijioka Article 116390 View PDF select article Association of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution with...
It is important to attend to the causes of this immobility, whether forced, involuntary or somewhere in between, especially in cases where migration presents a more outwardly active and favourable, but ultimately discarded or untenable, prospect. By extension, perspectives that broaden the remit of ...
Law enforcement and non-governmental organizations around the world are constantly planning and conducting operations to catch environmental criminal groups and fugitives involved in environmental crimes (PDF). These crimes may occur at local, regional, national, or transnational levels and include the ...
Second, the Law of One Price necessitates that prices will eventually converge when the status quo is restored, even when discrepancies occur due to local conditions. Moreover, as shown in Narciso (2020), events like conflict or climate crises can result in migration, which eventually would ...
Importantly, in all cases, people decide to stay37. Forced environmental non-migrants On the opposite end of the continuum of 'aspiration and capability' approach, certain people are not capable of handling the livelihood risks of environmental disasters yet are compelled to stay put—they are ...
and locals in Zambia refrain from felling trees around some wetlands and river systems (Makondo and Thomas2018), and avoid building piggeries near water sources in Vanuatu (Granderson2017; Shaffril et al.2020). The use of IK in the conservation of water resources form effective adaptation ...
We used remotely sensed environmental data to analyze the influences of environmental risk factors on malaria cases caused byPlasmodium falciparumandPlasmodium vivaxfrom 2014 to 2017 in two geographic settings in Ethiopia. Geospatial datasets were derived from multiple sources and characterized climate, vege...