The national environmental management authority's capacity to manage and control the potential environmental impact of the emerging oil and gas sector.
| dc.contributor.author | Kering, Nimo Chebet | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-06T08:46:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-10-06T08:46:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | A Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Bachelors of Laws Degree | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the capacity of Kenya's National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to manage the demands of the country's emerging upstream oil and gas industry. The need to analyze NEMA's capacity is a result ofrecently introduced legislation that now requires oversight oflntegrated Environmental Impact Assessment (lElA) over extractive projects by NEMA This paper tlms seeks to examine NEMA's capacity to comply with this change and comparatively analyzes the authority's managerial scope with that of Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (NPSA) and its Petroleum Directorate (NPD), which is considered to be one of the world's leading institutions in the management of socio environmental impacts stemming from extractive projects.Tllis paper uses research metl10dology based on comparative research, policy transfer and material from conducting interviews. The aspects scrutinized are the laws and policies required to ensure success in tl1e Kenyan oil and gas industry as a result of prudent management of resources, emergency preparedness and proper safeguarding the e:ll..'ternal environment | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11071/4801 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Strathmore University | en_US |
| dc.title | The national environmental management authority's capacity to manage and control the potential environmental impact of the emerging oil and gas sector. | en_US |
| dc.type | Learning Object | en_US |