TY - BOOK TI - Environmental assessment, planning studies, preliminary design & final engineering design of two industrial parks in Afghanistan : : Hissar-E-Shahi Industrial Park : Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report / AV - TD171.5. A34. PY - 2006/// CY - Kabul, Afghanistan ; , Lahore : PB - Afghan Investment Support Agency (AISA) ; , National Engineering Services Pakistan (PVT) Limited, KW - Environmental protection – Afghanistan KW - Environmental policy – Afghanistan KW - Environmental management – Afghanistan KW - Environmental assessment – Afghanistan KW - Humanitarian assistance – Afghanistan KW - Afghanistan – Environmental conditions KW - Afghanistan – Politics and government – 2001- N1 - “November 2006”. Includes some Dari texts. “E1522 ; VOL. 2”—cover page ; Contents: Executive summary—Chapter 1 : introduction—Chapter 2 : Policy, legal, and administrative framework—Chapter 3 : project description—Chapter 4 : environmental and social baseline conditions—Chapter 5 : anticipated 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 N2 - 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) UR - https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_td171_5_a34_e665_2006 ER -