Assessing, mitigating and monitoring environmental risks of large infrastructure projects in foreign financing decisions: The case of OECD-country public financing for large dams in developing countries

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-32

  Caspary, Georg ^a  

^a SCIENCES PO   (France)

Author keywords

Dams; Environmental risk; Impact assessment; Impact mitigation; Impact monitoring; Infrastructure finance

Indexed keywords

DAM; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINANCE; MITIGATION; OECD; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 69749117333     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3152/146155109X413055     Document Type: Article

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