Challenges and Prospects for Integrating the Assessment of Health Impacts in the Licensing Process of Large Capital Project in Brazil

• Main Authors: Sandra de Souza Hacon (Author), André Reynaldo Santos Périssé (Author), Jean Simos (Author), Nicola Luca Cantoreggi (Author), Mirko Severin Winkler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Brazil was one of the first countries in Latin America to institutionalize a National Environmental Policy in 1981, including the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process of economic activities with anticipated impacts on the environment. Today, EIA practice in Brazil comes with a number of lim...