 | Environmental Impact of Sudden Population Displacements - Expert Consultation on Priority Policy Issues and Humanitarian Aid (European Commission Humanitarian Office, 1995, 28 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |
|  | 2. OPENING STATEMENTS |
| | 2.1. Statement by Mr. E. Thielmann (ECHO III-Brussels) |
| | 2.2. Statement by Dr D. Guha-Sapir (Université Catholique de Louvain - Brussels) |
| | 3. OVERVIEW OF POLICY ISSUES |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 3.1. Environment and Sudden Population Displacement: Policy Issues for Humanitarian Action and Development Programmes (D. Guha-Sapir, Université Catholique de Louvain and M. Salih, Institute of Social Studies-The Hague) |
| | 3.2. What Makes Emergencies Different? Interrelations of Development, Environment and Disasters (T. Cannon, University of Greenwich-London) |
| | 3.3. Environmental Issues: UNHCR’s Experience and Response (R. Thiadens and H. Mori, UNHCR-Geneva) |
| | 3.4. Environmental Change in Refugee Affected Areas: Research Needs and Future Directions (R. Black, University of Sussex-Brighton) |
| | 4. CASE STUDIES (SUMMARIES) |
| | 4.1. Cooking Energy for Refugees: The Cases of Zaire and Kenya (A. Klingshirn and T. Hoerz, GTZ-Eschborn) |
| | 4.2. Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Ecosystems (U. Bloesch, Swiss Disaster Relief-Bern) |
| | 4.3. Environmental Health and Environmental Impact: Policy and Practice in Emergency Water Supply (P. Sherlock, Oxfam-Oxford) |
| | 4.4. Environmental Impact of Refugees in Africa: Some Suggestions for Future Actions (Oweyegha-Afunaduula, University of Makerere-Kampala) |
| | 4.5. When Refugees Stream: Environmental and Political Implications of Population Displacement (Shin-wha Lee, Harvard University-Cambridge) |
| | 5. RECURRENT THEMES AND CONCERNS |
| | 6. AN APPEAL FOR URGENT POLICY ATTENTION |
| | 6.1. Principle |
| | 6.2. Time framework and policy parameters |
| | i. Preparedness Phase |
| | ii. Emergency Phase |
| | iii. Relief Phase (care and maintenance) |
| | 6.3. Urgent policy concerns |
| | i. Energy |
| | ii. Shelter |
| | iii. Agriculture |
| | iv. Site and size of settlements |
| | v. Indigenous knowledge |
| | vi. Research and impact assessment |
| | 6.4 Institutions, resources and technical interventions |
| | i. Institutional issues |
| | ii. Resource competition concerns |
| | iii. Technical issues |
| | ANNEXES |
| | 1. Selected Bibliography |
| | 2. List of Participants |
| | 3. Support Staff |
| | 4. Programme and Presentations |
2.2. Statement by Dr D. Guha-Sapir (Université Catholique de Louvain - Brussels)
Donor agencies increasingly recognise the importance of socio-economic and environmental issues in the context of promoting development through relief. With this expert consultation, the European Commission wishes to bring together a small group of experts in technical and socio-economic issues capable of discussing and laying the ground level issues related to the linkages between population displacement, the environment and relief. The purpose of the consultation is to furnish ECHO with policy directions for environmental management in humanitarian aid programmes.
While initially the aim was to develop operational guidelines for field work, following discussions with executing agencies, it was later felt that the policy climate has to be clarified before operational guidelines be developed. Establishing clear priority policy direction for an emergency operations is therefore the first objective of our gathering here.
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