Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources In Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

David Jensen manages the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding Programme of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Steve Lonergan is a Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Victoria and former director of the UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment.

• Foreword Placing Environment and Natural Resource Risks, Impacts, and Opportunities on the Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Agenda Part 1: Post-Conflict Environmental Assessments Introduction 1. Evaluating the Impact of UNEP’s Post-Conflict Environmental Assessments 2. Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies: Lessons from the UN Environment Programme’s Experience with Post-Conflict Assessment 3. Medical and Environmental Intelligence in Peace and Crisis-Management Operations 4. Thinking Back-end: Improving Post-Conflict Analysis through Consulting, Adapting to Change, and Scenario Building Part 2: Remediation of Environmental Hot Spots Introduction 5. Salting the Earth: Environmental Health Challenges in Post-Conflict Reconstruction 6. Remediation of Polluted Sites in the Balkans, Iraq, and Sierra Leone 7. The Risks of Depleted Uranium Contamination in Post-Conflict Countries: Findings and Lessons learned from UNEP Field Assessments 8. Linking Demining to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: A Case Study of Cambodia Part 3: Restoration of Natural Resources and Ecosystems Introduction 9. Restoration of Damaged Land in Societies Recovering from Conflict: The Case of Lebanon 10. Ecological Restoration and Peacebuilding: The Case of the Iraqi Marshes 11. Haiti: Lessons Learned and Way Forward in Natural Resource Management Projects 12. Peacebuilding and Adaptation to Climate Change Part 4: Environmental Dimensions of Infrastructure and Reconstruction Introduction 13. Addressing Infrastructure Needs in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: An Introduction to Alternative Planning Approaches 14. Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach 15. Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstreaming Environmental Assessment Tools in Post-Conflict Settings 16. Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Peacebuilding and Development: Initial Lessons from Capacity Building in Sierra Leone 17. Natural Resources, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and Regional Integration: Lessons from the Marshall Plan and other Regional Reconstruction Efforts 18. Making Best use of Domestic Energy Sources: The Priority Production System for Coal Mining and Steel Production in Post–World War II Japan 19. Road Infrastructure Reconstruction as a Peacebuilding Priority in Afghanistan: Negative Implications for Land Rights 20. Evaluating Post-Conflict Assistance Part 5: Lessons Learned 21. Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Restoration, Remediation, and Reconstruction: Lessons and Way Forward