Environmental Health and Sustainable Development
Despite its importance to sustainable development, very little information exists on environmental health linkages. Being multisectoral, it escapes focused attention during project design. Recently, however, the World Bank conducted a study on Sub-...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1997/03/12844838/environmental-health-sustainable-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9938 |
| Summary: | Despite its importance to sustainable
development, very little information exists on environmental
health linkages. Being multisectoral, it escapes focused
attention during project design. Recently, however, the
World Bank conducted a study on Sub-Saharan Africa
infrastructure operations to assess their environmental
health dimensions and lessons learned which could be
transferred to projects without unduly complicating project
management. The result is a three-volume report: bridging
environmental health gaps. Volume one contains environmental
health background material as well as a checklist for
integrating environmental health into projects. Volume two
offers a cross-sectoral analysis of the literature. Drawing
from some 2,000 books and articles, and about 300 published
Bank documents, it summarizes the major themes of the
literature, demonstrating that, outside the health sector,
health has not played a significant role in setting policies
and priorities. Finally, volume three discusses the
compatibility of environmental and health considerations,
their policy implications for the Bank, and recommendations
for future work with other agencies. |
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