Suggestions for integrating EIA and economic development in the Caribbean region

Making Environmental Impact Assessment Convincible to Developing Countries

“…Ebisemiju (1993) states that only 19 out of the 121 developing countries in the world have a formal EIA status. The possible reasons for the alarmingly slow pace for adopting formal EIA status in developing countries have been discussed by a number of researchers including Biswas and Geping (1987), Gamman and McCreary (1988), Lin Lewis (1989) and Ebisemiju (1993). Towle (1987), Ebisemiju (1991) and others have analysed and discussed the argument that the absence of an enabling environment for EIA in developing countries is largely responsible for the slow pace at which formal EIA is being adopted.…”