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  Indigenous peoples and mining encounters: strategies and tactics

  Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project, IIED, 2002

  This paper argues that mining can not be considered ‘sustainable’ if indigenous cultures are rendered unsustainable in the process. Given that many remaining unexploited ores lie under indigenous lands, there is increasing pressure to mine on or near indigenous lands.
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  Export credit agencies explained

  Export Credit Agencies International NGO Campaign, 2001

  This brief paper outlines the nature of export credit agencies (ECAs), how they impact development, the environment and human rights.The paper finds that ECAs (public agencies that provide government-backed loans, guarantees, credits and insurance to private corporations from their home country to do business abroad) often invest in developing countries They are one of the largest sources of p
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  Responsible tourism handbook: a guide to good practice for tourism operators

  Eldis Document Store, 2003

  This handbook uses South Africa’s National Responsible Tourism Guidelines as a basis for providing practical examples and tips on how to operate more responsibly. It is aimed at owners and operators of tourism establishments e.g.
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  Extractive industries and sustainable development: an evaluation of World Bank Group experience (volume one: overview)

  Operations Evaluations Division, World Bank, 2003

  The World Bank Group (WBG) has the potential to improve the contribution of extractive industries (EI) to sustainable development and poverty reduction.
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  Development of criteria and benchmarks for green hotels in Thailand: Phase I

  The Oregon Economic and Community Development Department, 2002

  This study aims to assist the Thai hotel industry in conducting their business operations more efficiently, and reducing operating costs, particularly in energy, water and solid waste, while also improving the local and global environment.
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  Logs of war: the timber trade and armed conflict

  Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2002

  This report explores the relationship between the trade in timber and armed conflict.
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  Towards an improved governance agenda for the extractive sector: Report based on RIIA workshop: Sustainable Relationships: Financing and Monitoring Responsibilities, 10–11 October 2002

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2003

  This report highlights issues discussed in the 2002 RIIA workshop. It demonstrates the challenges faced in the creation and implementation of agreements with stakeholders on economic and environmental areas of sustainable development in the extractive industry. The report highlights key issues discussed relating to maximising economic benefits and minimising negative environmental impacts.
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  DFID and corporate social responsibility

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This paper outlines DFID’s approach to corporate social responsibility.
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  Trade and forests: why forest issues require attention in trade negotiations

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper attempts to assess the impacts of trade negotiations on natural tropical forests, taking into account the context and regional dynamics both within and outside the forest sector.Findings:further liberalisation for agricultural products is likely to have a significant impact on forest areas, encouraging increased conversion to agricultural landWTO decisions on ecolabelling
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  Natural disasters: the business of Asian business?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Should the private sector in developing countries get involved in natural disaster reduction? How could businesses be encouraged to move beyond providing support to relief efforts by taking up disaster preparedness instead? How transferable is northern experience of inter-sectoral partnerships and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in disaster reduction?

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