What is HIA?

Health Impact Assessment, or HIA is a consensus building process around the future positive and negative health consequences of changes that affect defined populations of people. It may be integrated with other forms of impact assessment (ESHIA/ESIA), or stand-alone....more

Book update: Health inequality

An important addition to our understanding of the evidence for and causes of health inequality is provided by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book “The Spirit Level: why equality is better for

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Book update: resource curse

Chapter 12: Current and future challenges Section 12.6: Cumulative impacts Sub-section 12.6.2: National cumulative impacts There is a growing literature from econometrics and other disciplines exploring the reality of the resource curse. One highly

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Book update: energy scarcity

Chapter 12: current and future challenges 12.8: Energy scarcity Recent disclosures from the International Energy Agency among others reinforce the urgency of energy scarcity and the need to switch from fossil fuels. It now

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