Education

Ernesto holds an engineering degree from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia).

Career

Dr. Sánchez-Triana has led the preparation of numerous policy-based programs, investment projects, technical assistance operations, and analytical works. He holds an engineer degree from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). He has authored numerous publications on pollution management, clean production, environmental economics, energy efficiency, environmental policy, organizational learning, poverty assessment, and green growth.

Achievements

• Among his recent papers are Influence of Organizational Learning on Water Pollution Control in Colombia's Cauca Valley, Cleaner Production in Pakistan's Leather and Textile Sectors, Using Policy-based Strategic Environmental Assessments in Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reforms, and Managing Water-related Risks in the Sundarbans. Some of his most recent books include Cleaning Pakistan's Air: Policy Options to Address the Cost of Outdoor Air Pollution; Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction; Revitalizing Industrial Growth in Pakistan: Trade, Infrastructure, and Environmental Performance; Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation: Confronting Environmental Threats in Sindh, Pakistan; and Building Resilience for Sustainable Development of the Sundarbans.

Works

• Academic article

  • A Systematic Framework for Collecting Site-Specific Sampling and Survey Data to Support Analyses of Health Impacts from Land-Based Pollution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    (The rise of small-scale and localized economic activities...)

    2021
  • A Systematic Framework for Collecting Site-Specific Sampling and Survey Data to Support Analyses of Health Impacts from Land-Based Pollution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    (The rise of small-scale and localized economic activities...)

    2021
  • Pollution and health: a progress update - The Lancet Planetary Health 2022

• book

  • When the Dust Settles : A Review of the Health Implications of the Dust Component of Air Pollution — 2022

    (When the Dust Settles : A Review of the Health Implicatio...)

    2022
  • Recycling of Used-Lead Acid Batteries: Guidelines for Appraisal of Environmental Health Impacts

    (Coauthor with von Stackelberg, Katherine; Williams, Pamel...)

    2022
  • Artisanal Scale Gold Mining : A Framework for Collecting Site-Specific Sampling and Survey Data to Support Health-Impact Analyses. International Development in Focus;. © Washington, DC:

    (Coauthor with von Stackelberg, Katherine; Williams, Pamel...)

• chapter

  • Health Taxes: Expanding Health Taxation to Other Unhealthy Behaviors and Harmful Activities

    (Expanding Health Taxation to Other Unhealthy Behaviors an...)

  • Environmental Degradation: Estimating the Health Effects of Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution in Developing Countries | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

    ("Environmental Degradation: Estimating the Health Effects...)

    2022
  • Economic Instruments and Financial Mechanisms for the Adoption of a Circular Economy. In: Liu L., Ramakrishna S. (eds) An Introduction to Circular Economy. Springer, Singapore.

• paper

  • Evaluating the use of satellite observations to supplement ground-level air quality data in selected cities in low- and middle-income countries 2019
  • Risk Analysis Approaches to Evaluating Health Impacts from Land-Based Pollution in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Risk Analysis 41 (11): 1971-1986. 2021

• Other Work

  • Organizational learning and environmental impact assessment at Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation | WorldCat.org

    (During the 1976 to 1993 period, the design and implementa...)

Connections

Among his recent papers are Influence of Organizational Learning on Water Pollution Control in Colombia's Cauca Valley, Cleaner Production in Pakistan's Leather and Textile Sectors, Using Policy-based Strategic Environmental Assessments in Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reforms, and Managing Water-related Risks in the Sundarbans. Some of his most recent books include Cleaning Pakistan's Air: Policy Options to Address the Cost of Outdoor Air Pollution; Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction; Revitalizing Industrial Growth in Pakistan: Trade, Infrastructure, and Environmental Performance; Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation: Confronting Environmental Threats in Sindh, Pakistan; and Building Resilience for Sustainable Development of the Sundarbans.

References

• Sustainability and Poverty Alleviation: Confronting Environmental Threats in Sindh, Pakistan;
  2015
• Cleaner production in Pakistan's leather and textile sectors
  2014
• Environmental Priorities and Poverty Reduction : A Country Environmental Analysis for Colombia
  2009
• Environmental Sustainability : A Key to Poverty Reduction in Peru
  2007
• Cleaning Pakistan's Air: Policy Options to Address the Cost of Outdoor Air Pollution: Directions in Development - Environment and Sustainable Development
  2015
• Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
  2014
• Managing water-related risks in the West Bengal Sundarbans: policy alternatives and institutions
  2016
• Strategy for adapting to climate change and conserving biodiversity in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
  2016
• Influence of Organizational Learning on Water Pollution Control in Colombia's Cauca Valley
  2006
• A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Impact Analysis Systems
  2006
• Managing the Sundarbans region: opportunities for mutual gain by India and Bangladesh: International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development: Vol 15, No 1
  2016
• Building Resilience for Sustainable Development of the Sundarbans
  2014
• Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies : An Instrument for Good Governance
  2004
• Revitalizing Industrial Growth in Pakistan : Trade, Infrastructure, and Environmental Performance
  2014
• Cleaner production in Pakistan's leather and textile sectors
  2013
• Using policy-based strategic environmental assessments in water supply and sanitation sector reforms: the cases of Argentina and Colombia
  2007
• Integrating Poverty and Social Analysis in SEA: The Cases of Pakistan and the Piauí, Brazil
  2016
• PRIORIDADES AMBIENTALES PARA LA REDUCCIÓN DE LA POBREZA EN COLOMBIA
  2008
• Liciencias Ambientales: Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental Instrumento de Planificación
  1995
• The Role of International Organizations and Development Banks in Pakistan’s Environmental Impact Assessment Practices
  2011
• Greening Growth in Pakistan through Transport Sector Reforms : Strategic Environmental, Poverty, and Social Assessment
  2013
• Legal Framework of Environmental Impact Assessment in South Asia
  2015
• Getting the Most for the Money — How Public Environmental Expenditure Reviews Can Help
  2003
• Peru: Propuesta de Política de Salud Ambiental Chapters 21 and 22
  2006
• Government strategies for improving mining development outcomes: The case of Peru
  2012
• The Potential of SEA to Influence Policy Formulation: Lessons from Six Cases in Latin America
  2010
• Enlisting Markets in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in South Asia’s Sundarbans: Environmental IS&T Journal Article | IGI Global Enlisting Markets in the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in South Asia’s Sundarbans: 10.4018/jsesd.2013070106: The unique biodiversity of the Sundarbans is threatened by a number of factors, many of which are the direct or indirect result of market failures. Past
• Environmental impact assessment reform in Peru
  2014
• Contaminación Industrial y Estrategias de Solución
  1995
• Medio ambiente y desarrollo sostenible
  2003
• Eficiencia energética : producción limpia para un desarrollo sustentable (Book, 1996) [WorldCat.org] Get this from a library! Eficiencia energética : producción limpia para un desarrollo sustentable. [Ernesto Sánchez Triana; Carlos Mauricio Silva Fernández]
• Contaminacion industrial en Colombia
  1994
• Mecanismos Financieros e Instrumentos Económicos para la Gestión Ambiental
  1995
• A Bogotá se le subieron los humos. (Article, 1993)
• Zheng ce zhan lüe huan jing ping jia : Da zhi liang hao guan zhi de gong ju (Book, 2009) Zheng ce zhan lüe huan jing ping jia : Da zhi liang hao guan zhi de gong ju. [ Ernesto Sanchez-Triana; Jianzhi Lin;] -- Ben shu ji zhong shou lu le zai zheng ce ceng mian ti gao zhan lüe huan jing ping jia you xiao xing de zhong yao jing yan he jiao xun,Bing wei ying xiang ping jia he jue ce jian li le yi ge qiao ...
  2009
• Organizational learning and environmental impact assessment at Colombia's Cauca Valley Corporation. (Article, 2001)
  2001
• Mecanismos financieros e instrumentos económicos para la protección ambiental en Colombia (Book, 1994)]
  1994
• Instrumentos economicos para el control de la contaminacion industrial. (Article, 1994)
  1994
• Estudio de comportamiento de elementos estructurales de suelo-cemento reforzado con bambusa guadua sometidos a flexión (Book, 1980)
  1980
• Identificación y análisis de impactos acumulativos en evaluaciones ambientales (Article, 1994)
  1994
• Plan de proteccion y control de la calidad del rio Bogota : cuenca alta. (Article, 1986)
• Impacto de los derrames de petróleo (Article, 1992)
  1992
• Access to quality information is crucial to tackle Peru’s environmental problems | Voices By the early 2000s, Peru faced serious environmental problems. Air pollution in urban areas was so severe that it caused thousands of premature deaths every year. In fact, air quality in Lima was worse than in other large Latin American cities, such as Mexico City or Sao Paulo. Other environmental challenges that damaged people’s health included air pollution inside homes caused by the use of wood for cooking; insufficient access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; and exposure to lead, a highly toxic chemical. Together, these environmental problems caused 12 million cases of illnesses annually, dramatically affecting young children, the elderly, and poor people who couldn’t afford medical care. The World Bank estimated that these negative impacts had an economic cost equivalent to 2.8% of Peru’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2003. One of the main reasons the Peruvian government wasn’t able to respond promptly to these serious environmental problems was the country didn’t have governmental organizations with a clear responsibility for environmental protection. Another important reason was the absence of a system of reliable environmental information to support the government’s decision-making process. For example, there was little awareness about the seriousness of air pollution, largely because most cities didn’t have a functional air quality monitoring network. Even in the few cities that did, the information was not widely disseminated. In the absence of such information, it was difficult to identify which environmental problems were most severe, and to develop actions and assign resources to solve them. In addition, lack of information limited the opportunities for the public—including the poor families and other vulnerable groups that suffered the most from pollution —to discuss their environmental concerns and agree on solutions with government officials.
• Lead pollution robs children of their futures | Voices When the water is poor, people get sick: they have diarrhea; their growth is stunted; they die. When the air is poor, people get sick: they cough; they cannot leave their beds; they die. However, they do not look sick when there is lead in their blood. You cannot look at a child who has an unhealthy blood lead level (BLL) and say, "This is not right. Something must be done," because in most cases, there is nothing to see. Lead (Pb) exposure—which is making headlines in the U.S. because of recent events in Flint, Michigan-- is a major source of critical environmental health risks. But the problem is subtle: Affected children do not perform as well in school. They are late to read. They are slow to learn how to do tasks. Perhaps a few more children are born with cognitive deficits. Perhaps these children have less impulse control. Perhaps they exhibit more violence. These symptoms are not always understood as an environmental or a public health problem – or indeed a development problem. Instead, people will say it is an issue of morals or of education. They will discipline the children, and then they will take themselves to task and ask how and why they are failing to raise these children correctly. Furthermore, they will have no idea that the problem is in the children’s blood. Young children are particularly vulnerable to lead exposure. Studies have documented that exposure leads to neuropsychological impacts in children--including impaired intelligence, measured as intelligence IQ losses--at blood lead levels even lower than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood (µg/dL). So, clearly, the effect occurs at even very low BLLs.
• Clean air as a poverty reduction priority | Voices ​Many parts of the development community have long embraced the following narrative: When nations are young and poor, they are willing to sacrifice natural resources—dirtying their water and their air—to promote economic growth and meet their population’s basic needs. Then, once these nations achieve a certain level of wealth, they become less concerned with accumulating material goods and more concerned with quality-of-life issues, and only at that point are they willing to spend money—or sacrifice growth—for benefits like clean air. However, a recent resolution by the World Health Organization's (WHO) governing body shows that this narrative is beginning to change.
• Strategic Environmental Assessment for Colombia's Water Policy Reforms (Spanish)s
• Environmental Degradation: Estimating the Health Effects of Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution in Developing Countries | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science "Environmental Degradation: Estimating the Health Effects of Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution in Developing Countries" published on by Oxford University Press.
  2022
• Are All Air Pollution Particles Equal? How Constituents and Sources of Fine Air Pollution Particles (PM2.5) Affect Health Coauthor with Thurston, George; Awe, Yewande; Ostro, Bart. Are All Air Pollution Particles Equal? How Constituents and Sources of Fine Air Pollution Particles (PM2.5) Affect Health.
  2022
• When the Dust Settles : A Review of the Health Implications of the Dust Component of Air Pollution. Coauthor with Ostro, Bart; Awe, Yewande; When the Dust Settles: A Review of the Health Implications of the Dust Component of Air Pollution.
  2022
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