Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7464679 | Environmental Impact Assessment Review | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Our findings show that the three EISs were inadequately utilised to determine economic impacts of mining projects on the health and wellbeing of local communities. The evidence base linking economic impacts of mines to health is underdeveloped, which compromises assessing the quality of economic coverage in EISs. EIA scoping should enable sufficient inclusion of broader determinants of health using appropriate methodology, and the economic-focused content of EISs should be subject to rigorous peer-review process to fully inform government approvals for projects. Our methods lend themselves to research in other contexts to investigate the quality of EIAs.
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Authors
Jessica Hresc, Emily Riley, Patrick Harris,