Biodiversity and Gender for Sustainable Development Book

A concise guide which focuses on the environmental impact of development projects. It aims to teach the knowledge, skills, approaches and best practices necessary if environmental assessment is to be integrated into all development projects.

The book recognizes the diversity of environmental problems from country to country. It identifies five areas which managers and planners should pay attention to: 1. natural habitat destruction; 2. land degradation; 3. the depletion and degradation of fresh water resources; 4. agricultural, industrial and urban pollution; 5. the degradation of "global commons".

The book analyzes the environmental impact of a number of projects in order to generate a useable checklist of potential impacts, provides economic analysis of environmental impacts discusses environmental auditing and includes case studies.