Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: Footprints in the Jungle
Footprints in the Jungle
Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation
Bowles, Ian A.
(Editor), Vice President, Conservation International, Washington D.C.
Prickett, Glenn T.
(Editor), Senior Director, Conservation International, Washington D.C.
Print publication date: 2001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512578-8
doi:10.1093/0195125789.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512578-8
doi:10.1093/0195125789.001.0001
Abstract:
Over the past several decades, tropical rain forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development. These extractive industries, as well as the infrastructure associated with them – roads, pipelines, and transmission lines – have had a significant environmental impact worldwide and often conflict with the growing concern for conservation of tropical biodiversity. Even though extractive industries are threatening the last undisturbed tropical ecosystems of the planet, developing countries in these regions rely heavily on revenue generated from resource extraction, and development of delicate ecosystems will continue in spite of its controversial nature. This book examines the technical, environmental, social, and legal issues related to the development of modern infrastructure and resource extraction in tropical forests. Through a variety of case studies, this volume examines the environmental practices of natural resource companies and biodiversity-conservation agencies.
Keywords: best practices, biodiversity, conservation, conservation International, corporate social responsibility, environment, environmental footprint, extractive industries, gas, logging, oil, protected areas, rainforest
Keywords: best practices, biodiversity, conservation, conservation International, corporate social responsibility, environment, environmental footprint, extractive industries, gas, logging, oil, protected areas, rainforest
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Biodiversity Conservation
2. Private-Sector Participation in Infrastructure Development
3. Partner or Pariah
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
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
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
15. Rethinking Infrastructure
16. Environmental and Social Considerations in the Development of the Greater Mekong Subregion's Road Network
17. Roads and Tropical Forests
18. Cóndor
Conclusion
Index
doi:10.1093/0195125789.001.0001
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