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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
1 Biodiversity Conservation Global Priorities, Trends, and the Outlook for the Future doi:10.1093/0195125789.003.0002 Russell A. Mittermeier William R. Konstant Abstract: This chapter describes biodiversity and its value to society. The concepts of biodiversity hotspots, major tropical Wilderness Areas, and Megadiversity Countries and Conservation International's method of setting priorities are also discussed. Keywords: biodiversity, Conservation International, Megadiversity Country, Protected Areas, Wilderness Area,

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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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