Critical Uncertainties and Gaps in the Environmental- and Social-Impact Assessment of the Proposed Interoceanic Canal

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Jorge A Huete-Pérez1, Manuel Ortega-Hegg1, Gerald R Urquhart1

  • 1Jorge A. Huete-Pérez (jorgehuete@uca-cbm.org), Manuel Ortega-Hegg (mortega@ns.uca.edu.ni), Katherine Vammen, Julio C. Miranda, Sergio Espinoza-Corriols, Adolfo Acevedo, María L. Acosta, Jaime Incer-Barquero, Jean Michel Maes, Salvador Montenegro-Guillén, and Pedro J. J. Alvarez are all affiliated with the Academy of Sciences of Nicaragua, in Managua, Nicaragua. JAH-P, MO-H, and KV are also affiliated with the University of Central America, in Managua, Nicaragua, as is Juan P. Gómez. JCM is also affiliated with CH2M Hill, in San Jose, California. MLA is also with the Center for Legal Assistance to Indigenous Peoples (CALPI), in Managua, Nicaragua. JI-B is also with the Nicaraguan Foundation for Sustainable Development, Fondo Natura, in Managua. JMM is also affiliated with the Entomology Museum, in León, Nicaragua. PJJA and Mason B. Tomson are with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. Gerald R. Urquhart is with the Lyman Briggs College and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, in East Lansing. Alan P. Covich is affiliated with the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, in Atlanta. Bruce E. Rittmann is with the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology at Arizona State University, in Tempe. Michael T. Brett is affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, in Seattle. Michael Hanemann is with the Department of Economics at Arizona State University, in Tempe. Andreas Härer and Axel Meyer are affiliated with the Laboratory for Zoology and Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz, in Germany. Frank J. Joyce is with the Tropical Biology and Conservation Program and the Education Abroad Program at the University of California, in Goleta. J. Wesley Lauer is affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and W. Lindsay Whitlow with the Department of Biology at Seattle University, in Washington. Jerald L. Schnoor is affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City.

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|March 31, 2018
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Keywords:
Lake NicaraguaNicaraguaenvironmental impactsinteroceanic canalsocial impacts

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