Footprints in the Jungle: Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation
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Book Description
Tropical forests have seen a tremendous growth in logging, mining, and oil and gas development over the past decades. These industries and their infrastructure, including roads and power lines, have a tremendous impact on the environment and often conflict with the growing concern for
conservation, particularly the conservation of tropical biodiversity. However, development in the tropics is extremely important economically, both for developing and industrialized nations, and Footprints in the Jungle is an invaluable reference in this important and highly politicized debate. This
volume looks at new approaches that lessen the impact of development. It collects numerous case studies by project managers, advocates, and researchers from major international companies, development agencies, universities, and non-governmental organizations. It also examines the environmental and
social impact of resource development, proposes a rigorous "best practices" approach, and analyzes a number of challenging technical, environmental, social, and legal issues.
Book Info
A text aiming to stimulate debate about developing natural resources in a safe manner which facilitates biodiversity. Covers a host of environmental, legal, technical, and social issues related to the extraction of natural resources from tropical rain forests, fully examining the issues in order to help all concerned parties. DLC: Forest management--Tropics.
Footprints in the Jungle: Natural Resource Industries, Infrastructure, and Biodiversity Conservation,Ian A. Bowles,Glenn T. Prickett,Oxford University Press, USA,0195125789,Ecology,Economic development,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Science,Environmental Studies,Environmental aspects,Forest Conservation,Forest Management,Forest products industry,Forests & Forestry,Life Sciences - Ecology,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Tropics,Ecological science, the Biosphere,Economics | Environmental,Environmental economics,Management of land & natural resources,Science / Ecology
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