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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.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description xix, 332 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Condor : better decisionmaking on infrastructure projects / Silvio Olivieri, Claudia Martinez -- Conclusion: Leave more than footprints : the new corporate responsibility / Glenn T. Prickett, Ian A. Bowles.
Subject Forest management -- Tropics.
Forest products industry -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics.
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Tropics.
Biodiversity conservation -- Tropics.
Rain forest conservation.
Rain forest ecology.
Added Author Bowles, Ian A.
Prickett, Glenn T.
ISBN 0195125789 (alk. paper)

 
    
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