Environmental assessment, planning studies, preliminary design & final engineering design of two industrial parks in Afghanistan : Kamari Industrial Park : Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report / Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA).

“November 2006”.
Includes some Dari texts.

Contents: Executive summary—Chapter 1 : introduction—Chapter 2 : Policy, legal, and administrative framework—Chapter 3 : project description—Chapter 4 : baseline conditions—Chapter 5 : anticipated environmental impacts and mitigation measures—Chapter 6 : analysis of alternatives—Chapter 7 : environmental management and monitoring plan—Chapter 8 : social assessment—Chapter 9 : conclusions and recommendations—List of figures—List of annexes & appendix—List of tables.

Summary: “The soviet invasion and ensuing civil war destroyed much of the under-developed Afghanistan's limited infrastructure, industries and disrupted normal patterns of economic activity. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has fallen substantially after 1981 and revived to some extent in year 2004 but still country is facing acute unemployment, less export, and bad economy due to industrial as well as agricultural less economic growth. Currently, Afghanistan's import reaches to some US $5 billion against US $450 million of export. About half of the import includes cooking oil, soft drinks, processed food, construction materials, etc. Therefore, country is in desperate need of developing its own resources especially the industrial sector in order to stabilize their economy…”—(page summary).

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