Biodiversity monitoring in the environmental impact assessment of mining projects: a (persistent) waste of time and money?

Environmental impact assessments, not only in Brazil, but also globally, have long had their effectiveness questioned. Among the most frequently debated problems are: low quality of the impact assessment statements, weak public participation, project delays, increased costs for proponents, amongst o...

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Main Authors: Amanda Monique da Silva Dias, Alberto Fonseca, Adriano Pereira Paglia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-07-01
Series:Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1679007316301505