Footprints in the jungle : natural resource industries, infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation / edited by Ian A. Bowles, Glenn T. Prickett ; assistant editor Amy E. Skoczlas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowles, Ian A.

Prickett, Glenn T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest management--Tropics.

Forest management.

Biodiversity conservation.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Forest products industry--Environmental aspects.

Forest products industry.

Tropics.

Forest products industry--Environmental aspects--Tropics.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Tropics.

Economic development.

Biodiversity conservation--Tropics.

Rain forest conservation.

Rain forest ecology.

Rain forests.

Conservation of natural resources--Tropics.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

xix, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

With their tremendous resources and complex ecosystems, tropical forests are equally important to the environmental movement and the logging, mining, and oil industries. Although preserving bio-diversity is a vital concern, development in the tropics is extremely important economically, both for developing and industrialized nations. This volume looks at new approaches to resource development that attempt to minimize its social and environmental impact. It collects numerous case studies from major international companies, development agencies, universities, and non-governmental organizations and looks closely at the long- and short-term effects of resource development. It will be an invaluable reference in this important and highly politicized debate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195125789

OCLC:

40856959