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:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512578-8
doi:10.1093/0195125789.003.0016
 

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
This chapter discusses the impact of infrastructure on biodiversity. The authors conclude that by first ensuring that projects are viable from both the economic as well as the environmental social perspectives, project planners can help ensure that infrastructure development proceeds in a sustainable manner.
Keywords: decision-making, environmental viability, infrastructure, sustainable development, systemic development
doi:10.1093/0195125789.003.0016
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Part I Conservation and Development in the Twenty-First-Century Tropics
Part II Oil and Gas Development Meet Conservation
Part III Forests Under Pressure
Part IV Mining and Conservation
Part V Infrastructure for Sustainable Development
Part VI Conclusion