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Footprints in the jungle : natural resource industries, infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation /
Development in the tropics is important economically for developing and industrialised nations. This text looks at approaches that attempt to minimise the impact of development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introducton, Growing footprint : resource extraction investments expand further into the humid tropics / Ian A. Bowles, Glenn T. Prickett
- Biodiversity conservation : global priorities, trends, and the outlook for the future / Russell A. Mittermeier, William R. Konstant
- Private-sector participation in infrastructure development / Everett J. Santos
- Partner or pariah : public perceptions and responses to the extractive industries / Lisa Jordan, Christopher H. Chamberlain
- Reinventing the well : approaches to minimizing the environmental and social impact of oil development in the tropics / Amy B. Rosenfield, Debra Gordon, Marianne Guerin-McManus
- Industry perspective on environmental and social issues in oil and gas development : case studies from Indonesia and Ecuador / Robert Kratsas, Jennifer A. Parnell.
- Monitoring impacts of hydrocarbon exploration in sensitive terrestrial ecosystems : perspectives from Block 78, Peru / Jorgen B. Thomsen [and others]
- Trade, transnationals, and tropical deforestation / Nigel Sizer
- Aracruz Celulose : a case history / Erling Lorentzen
- Stewardship of Mexico's community forests : expanding market and policy opportunities for conservation and rural development / Justin R. Ward, Yurij Bihun
- Options for conserving biodiversity in the context of logging in tropical forests / Richard Rice [and others]
- Biodiversity conservation, minerals extraction, and development : toward a realistic partnership / Alyson Warhurst, Kevin Franklin
- Mining industry responses to environmental and social issues / Gary Nash
- Evolution of environmental practice during exploration at the Camp Caiman gold project in French Guiana / Frederick T. Graybeal
- Conservation and concession contracts : environmental issues in mineral extraction agreements / David N. Smith, Cyril Kormos
- Rethinking infrastructure : approaches to managing development on the national and continental scale to reduce conservation impacts / Eliezer Batista da Silva, Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, Amy B. Rosenfeld
- Environmental and social considerations in the development of the Greater Mekong Subregion's road network / Robert J. Dobias, Kirk Talbott.
- Roads and tropical forests : from white lines to white elephants / John Reid
- Cóndor : better decisionmaking on infrastructure projects / Silvio Olivieri, Claudia Martinez
- Conclusion, Leave more than footprints : the new corporate responsibility / Glenn T. Prickett, Ian A. Bowles.