Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Foreword by Klaus Toepfer, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

 

Can peacebuilding succeed without environmental remediation and natural resource restoration?

David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)
Steve Lonergan, University of Victoria (Canada)

PART 1: POST-CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS

Introduction

 

Evaluating the Impact of UNEP's Post-Conflict Environmental Assessments

David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)

Mitigating the environmental impacts of post-conflict assistance: Assessing USAID’s approach

Charles John Kelly, ProAct Network (U.S.A)

Environment and Peacebuilding in War-Torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme's Experience with Post-Conflict Assessment

Ken Conca, American University (USA)
Jennifer Wallace, University of Maryland (USA)

Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Peacebuilding and Development: Initial Lessons from Capacity Building in Sierra Leone

Oli Brown, United Nations Environment Programme
Morgan Hauptfleisch, Southern African Institute for Environmental Assessment
Haddijatou Jallow, Environment Protection Agency - Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone)
Peter Tarr, Southern African Institute for Environmental Assessment

Challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming environmental assessment tools in the post-conflict setting

George Bouma, United Nations Development Programme (Australia)

How the Use of Economic Analysis of Environmental Degradation Can Influence Policy Processes: Experience from Rwanda

Louise Wrist Sorensen, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme (Denmark)

Medical and environmental intelligence in peace operations and crisis management

Birgitta Liljedahl, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Annica Waleij, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Louise Simonsson, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Christina Edlund, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Bjorn Sandstrom, Swedish Defence Research Agency (Sweden)
Claes Nystrom, Swedish Armed Forces (Sweden)
Sture Sundstrom, Swedish Armed Forces (Sweden)

PART 2: PLANNING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

Introduction

 

Thinking back-end: Improving post-conflict analysis through consulting, adapting to change, and scenario building

Alexander Carius, Adelphi Research (Germany)
Achim Maas, Adelphi Research (Germany)

Evaluation in post-conflict natural resource assistance: Designing for accountability and real-world consequences

Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan, United Nations Development Program (Sri Lanka)
Juha Uitto, United Nations Development Program (Finland)

Peacebuilding and adaptation to climate change

Richard Matthew, UC-Irvine (USA)
Anne Hammill, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)

PART 3: IDENTIFICATION AND REMEDIATION OF HIGH-RISK ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

Introduction

 

Salting the Earth: Environmental health challenges in post-conflict reconstruction

Chad Briggs, Institute for Environmental Security (USA)
Inka Weissbecker, Harvard School of Public Health (Germany)

Remediation of polluted sites in the Balkans, Iraq, and Sierra Leone

Muralee Thummarukudy, United Nations Environment Programme (India)
Oli Brown, United Nations (UK)
Hannah Moosa (Canada)

The Risks of Depleted Uranium Contamination in Post-Conflict Countries: Findings and Lessons Learned from UNEP Field Assessments

Mario Burger, United Nations Environment Programme (Switzerland)

Linking Demining to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Cambodia*

Nao Shimoyachi-Yuzawa, Japan Institute of International Affairs (Japan)

PART 4: RESTORATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ECOSYSTEMS

Introduction

 

Restoration of Damaged Land in Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of Lebanon

Aida Tamer-Chammas, University of London (Lebanon/France)

Ecological Restoration and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Iraqi Marshes

Steve Lonergan, University of Victoria (Canada)

Haiti: Lessons Learned and Way Forward in Natural Resource Management Projects

Lucile Gingembre, United Nations Environment Programme (France)

PART 5: INFRASTRUCTURE AND RECONSTRUCTION

Addressing infrastructure needs in post-conflict reconstruction: An introduction to alternative planning approaches

P.B. Anand, University of Bradford (India)

Natural Resources, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Regional Integration: Lessons from the Marshall Plan and Other Reconstruction Efforts*

Carl Bruch, Environmental Law Institute (UK)
Ross Wolfarth, Columbia University (USA)
Vladislav Michalcik, American University Washington College of Law (Czech Republic)

Making Best Use of Domestic Energy Sources: Priority Production System for Coal Mining and Steel Production in Post-World War II Japan

Mikiyasu Nakayama, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Road Infrastructure Reconstruction as a Peacebuilding Priority in Afghanistan: Negative Implications for Land Rights*

Jon Unruh, McGill University (USA)
Mourad Shalaby, McGill University (Egypt/Canada)

PART 6: LESSONS LEARNED

Natural resources and post-conflict r estoration, remediation, and reconstruction: Lessons and way forward

David Jensen, United Nations Environment Programme (Canada)
Steve Lonergan, University of Victoria (Canada)

 

*denotes contributions supported by the Center for Global Partnership (CGP) of the Japan Foundation. See http://www.eli.org/Program_Areas/SPCSD/index.cfm.