Over the recent years, we've started to question our development model particularly with regards to infrastructure development and how this impacts humans and habitats. We've come to see that Law and Policy plays a fundamental role in how a nation state develops, and have decided to zero in on two topics: the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) process and Locus Standi.
Humans Habitats Highways Docuseries: Life Along the Pan Borneo Highway
Over the recent years, we've started to question our development model particularly with regards to infrastructure development and how this impacts humans and habitats. We've come to see that Law and Policy plays a fundamental role in how a nation state develops, and have decided to zero in on two topics: the EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) process and Locus Standi.
Highway cutting through Heart of Borneo poised to be ‘very, very bad’
Every few years, stretches of Borneo’s towering dipterocarp trees fruit in a synchronized pulse. In those months, the air is rich with brown, winged fruit, which fall and spin to the forest floor. These are sites where life gathers to feast in momentary abundance: bearded pigs (Sus barbatus), sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and more.
Optimizing roads to limit environmental damage and maximize societal development in the Asia-Pacific
Campbell, M., M, Alamgir and W. Laurance. 2018. Optimizing roads to limit environmental damage and maximize societal development in the Asia-Pacific. HOPE (Householders' Options to Protect the Environment) eNews bulletin, March: 6.
