Policymakers, over the years, have been operating at cross purposes by expanding the built environment at significant damage and cost to the environment, according to the executive director of the Mona GeoInfomatics Institute at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr.

He told The Gleaner that the mistake is that usually, parliamentarians make plans for infrastructural investments and housing developing plans, at great sacrifice to the natural environment, but, instead, need to take both factors into account when planning for the future.

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