This document lists potential environmental issues research topics, including crafting effective policies in weak regulatory settings, the impacts of small firms and deforestation and policy responses, conservation in fragmented forests, stakeholder participation in water resource management, community responsibility for urban environmental degradation, evaluating environmental impact assessments in mining, the influence of governance on water pricing, and practices of hotel waste management.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RESEARCH TOPICS
1. Responding to the challenge of crafting effective environmental policies in settings
where regulatory institutions are weak.
2. The environmental impacts of the small firms and how to mitigate them; and the causes
of deforestation and possible policy responses.
3. Conservation in a fragmented rural landscape: how well are protected forest remnants
recovering?
4. Effective stakeholder participation for integrated water resource management
5. Responsibilising the community: a neoliberal governance approach to urban
environmental degradation
6. Evaluating the application of Environmental impact assessment (EIA)in the management
of ……………………. mining industry
7. Environmental governance and its influence on urban water pricing. The case study of
city …………………..
8. Identifying, exploring practices, barriers and drives of solid waste management within the
hotel industry of…………………………….