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Title Footprints in the jungle : natural resource industries, infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation / edited by Ian A. Bowles, Glenn T. Prickett ; assistant editor, Amy E. Skoczlas
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Forest management -- Tropics
Forest products industry -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics
Forest biodiversity conservation -- Tropics
Rain forest conservation.
Rain forest ecology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects
Forest biodiversity conservation
Forest management
Forest products industry -- Environmental aspects
Rain forest conservation
Rain forest ecology
Tropics
Form Electronic book
Author Bowles, Ian A
Prickett, Glenn T
LC no. 99018433
ISBN 1429402202
9781429402200
9780199832927
0199832927
9780195125788
0195125789