Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure
The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissi...
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okr-10986-311862022-09-20T00:13:41Z Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure Losos, Elizabeth Pfaff, Alexander Olander, Lydia Mason, Sara Morgan, Seth INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS RAILWAYS ROADS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as transportation infrastructure, due to their vast geographic reach, generate more complex and potentially more extensive environmental risks. The proposed Belt and Road Initiative rail and road investments have stimulated concerns because of the history of significant negative environmental impacts from large-scale transportation projects across the globe. This paper studies environmental risks -- direct and indirect -- from Belt and Road Initiative transportation projects and the mitigation strategies and policies to address them. The paper concludes with a recommendation on how to take advantage of the scale of the Belt and Road Initiative to address these concerns in a way not typically available to stand-alone projects. In short, this scale motivates and permits early integrated development and conservation planning. 2019-01-31T23:41:22Z 2019-01-31T23:41:22Z 2019-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/700631548446492003/Reducing-Environmental-Risks-from-Belt-and-Road-Initiative-Investments-in-Transportation-Infrastructure http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31186 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8718 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific South Asia China |
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INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS RAILWAYS ROADS TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE Losos, Elizabeth Pfaff, Alexander Olander, Lydia Mason, Sara Morgan, Seth Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure |
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The Belt and Road Initiative, due to its
diverse and extensive infrastructure investments, poses a
wide range of environmental risks. Some projects have easily
identifiable and measurable impacts, such as energy
projects' greenhouse gas emissions. Others, such as
transportation infrastructure, due to their vast geographic
reach, generate more complex and potentially more extensive
environmental risks. The proposed Belt and Road Initiative
rail and road investments have stimulated concerns because
of the history of significant negative environmental impacts
from large-scale transportation projects across the globe.
This paper studies environmental risks -- direct and
indirect -- from Belt and Road Initiative transportation
projects and the mitigation strategies and policies to
address them. The paper concludes with a recommendation on
how to take advantage of the scale of the Belt and Road
Initiative to address these concerns in a way not typically
available to stand-alone projects. In short, this scale
motivates and permits early integrated development and
conservation planning. |
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Working Paper |
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Losos, Elizabeth Pfaff, Alexander Olander, Lydia Mason, Sara Morgan, Seth |
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Losos, Elizabeth Pfaff, Alexander Olander, Lydia Mason, Sara Morgan, Seth |
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Losos, Elizabeth |
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Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure |
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Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure |
| title_full |
Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure |
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Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure |
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Reducing Environmental Risks from Belt and Road Initiative Investments in Transportation Infrastructure |
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reducing environmental risks from belt and road initiative investments in transportation infrastructure |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2019 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/700631548446492003/Reducing-Environmental-Risks-from-Belt-and-Road-Initiative-Investments-in-Transportation-Infrastructure http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31186 |
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