Dear colleagues

Dear colleagues,

Our society relies crucially on Environmental Impact Assessments to safeguard our environment -- from new highways, dams, mining, and other big projects during the most dramatic era of development expansion in human history. 

But in this essay, we argue that this is a very dangerous assumption — that many EIAs are biased or done so poorly they’re barely worth the paper they’re written on:

Environmental impact assessments aren’t protecting the environment

We all need to understand these weaknesses, and what we can do to help alleviate them.

Please forward this email to others who’d be interested, and retweet this link (https://twitter.com/ALERTconserv/status/1070856308826419200).

Thanks much,

Bill

William F. Laurance, PhD, FAA, FAAAS, FRSQ

Distinguished Research Professor

Australian Laureate & Prince Bernhard Chair in International Nature Conservation (Emeritus)

Director of the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS)

Director of ALERT (ALERT-conservation.org)

College of Science and Engineering

James Cook University

Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia

Phones: +61-7-4038-1518 and +61-7-4232-1819

Email: bill.laurance@jcu.edu.au

Lab websites: http://global-roadmap.org  &  http://laurancelab.org/

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