Assessing health impacts of the Chad–Cameroon petroleum development and pipeline project: challenges and a way forward

Integration of health into urban spatial planning through impact assessment: Identifying governance and policy barriers and facilitators

“…EIA (Bond et al, 2001) Chad and Cameroon IA (Jobin, 2003;Utzinger et al, 2005) Tanzania EIA (Mwalyosi and Hughes, 1998) Canada EIA Bronson, 2005, 2006) IA (Kwiatkowski and Ooi, 2003) SE Asia HIA (Caussy et al, 2003) Hong Kong SEA (Ng, 2005) Countries not disclosed HIA (Davenport et al, 2006;Taylor and Quigley, 2002;Wright et al, 2005: covers Europe)…”

Enhancing impact: visualization of an integrated impact assessment strategy

“…Can indeed anybody in a potentially impacted community possibly understand the highly technical nature of the analyses presented? Our group has reviewed and/or contributed to numerous extractive industry and water resources impact assessments (IAs) in developing countries (Utzinger et al, 2005;Krieger et al, 2008Krieger et al, , 2010Winkler et al, 2011Winkler et al, , 2012a. Without exception, these IAs, including our own health impact assessments (HIA), are elaborate, multi-volume documents, all certainly reach a "magna" length.…”

“…The English translation of the original Magna Carta is less than 5,000 words in total length, while current environmental, social and health impact statements often need thousands of pages, with 10-30 volumes of supporting appendices. For example, the mid-1990s Chad-Cameroon petroleum development and pipeline project EIS contained tens of thousands of pages spanning 21 volumes (Utzinger et al, 2005).…”

Health impact assessment of industrial development projects: a spatio-temporal visualization

“…New social-ecological contexts alter -positively and/or negatively -vulnerability, resilience and livelihood of the resident people. Patterns of endemic diseases, injuries and risk factors change at the local, sometimes even regional scale (Lerer and Scudder, 1999;Jobin, 2003;Utzinger et al, 2005;Krieger et al, 2008). In order to minimize negative health outcomes and maximize health benefits, health impact assessment (HIA) is used as a decision-making tool to evaluate and quantify the potential health effects of a project, programme and policy for the subsequent development of mitigation measures (Quigley et al, 2006).…”