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The Environmental Impact of Small Scale Industries (Intermediate Technology Working Papers)
The Environmental Impact of Small Scale Industries - Intermediate Technology Working Papers Author:Andrew Scott The environmental impacts of small scale industries have tended to be ignored by small enterprise development programs. This working paper presents research that has been carried out in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on three industrial sub-sectors (brick making, textile dyeing and mining), providing empirical information about the environmental effect... more »s of these industries. The findings show that though small scale industries do not necessarily have a significant environmental impact from a national or global point of view, they can have significant local impacts, which need to be addressed.« less