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Footprints in the Jungle Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation Bowles, Ian A. Vice President, Conservation International, Washington D.C. Prickett, Glenn T. Senior Director, Conservation International, Washington D.C. Print publication date: 2001 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512578-8
14 Conservation and Concession Contracts Environmental Issues in Mineral Extraction Agreements doi:10.1093/0195125789.003.0015 David N. Smith Cyril F. Kormos Abstract: This chapter discusses the environmental dimensions in mining and petroleum laws and contracts, obstacles to environmental and local community protection in resource legislation and contracts as related to conservation, and concession contracts. This chapter concludes with recommendation for governments, NGOs, companies, and international organizations. Keywords: conservation, energy, environmental legislation, mineral extraction, mining,

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Preface

Part I Conservation and Development in the Twenty-First-Century Tropics

1 Biodiversity Conservation

2 Private-Sector Participation in Infrastructure Development

3 Partner or Pariah

Part II Oil and Gas Development Meet Conservation

4 Reinventing the Well

5 An Industry Perspective on Environmental and Social Issues in Oil and Gas Development

6 Monitoring Impacts of Hydrocarbon Exploration in Sensitive Terrestrial Ecosystems

Part III Forests Under Pressure

7 Trade, Transnationals, and Tropical Deforestation

8 Aracruz Celulose

9 Stewardship of Mexico's Community Forests

10 Options for Conserving Biodiversity in the Context of Logging in Tropical Forests

Part IV Mining and Conservation

11 Biodiversity Conservation, Minerals Extraction, and Development

12 Mining Industry Responses to Environmental and Social Issues

13 Evolution of Environmental Practice During Exploration at the Camp Caiman Gold Project in French Guiana

14 Conservation and Concession Contracts

Part V Infrastructure for Sustainable Development

15 Rethinking Infrastructure

16 Environmental and Social Considerations in the Development of the Greater Mekong Subregion's Road Network

17 Roads and Tropical Forests

Part VI Conclusion

Index

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