|
 United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD) [http://www.unctad.org]
is the principal organ of the UN General Assembly dealing with trade,
investment and development issues, as well as the United Nations
focal point for the least developed countries. From its headquarters
in Geneva, Switzerland, UNCTAD provides a forum for consensus building
among governments on global trade and development issues. UNCTAD
also carries out research and policy analysis, and related capacity
building and technical cooperation activities that currently involve
the organization in some 300 projects in over 100 developing countries.
The global mandate for mineral resources within the
United Nations was assigned to UNCTAD in 1995, and the organization
has undertaken several new initiatives in order to respond to this
mandate. For example, UNCTAD initiated the website, Mineral
Resources Forum (MRF) [http://www.natural-resources.org/minerals/]
with the aim of providing a global portal to sustainable development
issues related to mineral resources. It produces the Handbook of
World Mineral Trade Statistics which contains trade data on 32 mineral
commodities. UNCTAD also produces detailed market information on
iron ore through the UNCTAD Iron Ore Fund.
Other UNCTAD activities directly concerning minerals
and metals relate to life cycle issues, including trade and environment
questions arising under WTO Agreements and the Basel Convention.
For instance, UNCTAD supports multi-stakeholder panels advising
the Philippine and Indian Governments on the development of coherent
national strategies for the environmentally sound, economically
viable and socially acceptable management of lead, including lead
recovery. Further information on these and similar mineral-related
activities can be found on UNCTAD’s Trade
and Environment website [http://www.unctad.org/trade_env/].
In 1996, UNCTAD organized an international expert
group meeting on resource-based development, with a focus on mineral
economies. This resulted in the publication of a book entitled Development
Policies in Natural Resource Economies (UNCTAD/Edward Elgar, 1999).
UNCTAD has also been promoting the idea of long-term
regional planning for mining areas, and discussions are currently
underway with a view to establishing pilot planning projects for
specific localities in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region.
More recently, funding from the United Nations Development
Account has allowed UNCTAD to extend its work on sustainable resource-based
development. This new phase of work is designed to emphasize the
development of human resources and the strengthening of institutions
in order to enhance policy design and implementation, especially
for mineral economies in Africa and Latin America.
The featured documents are organised according to
the following topics:
•Mining, Environment and
Development Papers
•Various Documents
•Distance Learning Courses
•Workshops
•Websites
| Mining, Environment and Development Papers |
|
A series of papers on Mining, Environment and Development
prepared under UNCTAD's programme of activities on sustainable,
resource-based development.
The Geopolitics of Mineral Resources
(PDF |
Word)
- R.M. Auty
International Law and Mineral Resources
(PDF
| Word)
- G.W. Pring
Macroeconomic Policy for Mineral Economies
(PDF
| Word)
- R.M. Auty
Mineral Policy, Legislation and Regulation
(PDF |
Word)
- J.M. Otto
Mining and the Natural Environment
(PDF
| Word)
- L.R. Blinker (UNEP)
Geographic Information Systems for
Mineral Resources (PDF
| Word)
- S. Luque
|
|
|
| Various Documents |
|
Cajamarca
y la Incidencia de Minera Yanacocha: Marco para el Desarrollo
Sostenible / Cajamarca and the
impact of the Yanacocha mine (PDF) - Anida Yupari,
2002.
Desarrollo Basado En Los Recursos
Naturales No Renovables: Estructura Legal, Administrativa
y Financiera para el Desarrollo Descentralizado en el Perú
- Anida Yupari, 2001.
Resume
(PDF)
Parte
1 (PDF)
Parte
2 (PDF)
Notes
(PDF)
Documento Completo (PDF
| Word)
Growth and Diversification in Mineral
Economies, Planning and Incentives for Diversification
(PDF |
Word)
- M.H. Solomon, 2000.
Management
of Natural Resources And the Environment In Zimbabwe: The
Case of Gold (PDF) - Mr. Oliver Maponga and Mr. Anderson
Mutemererwa, The Institute of Mining Research,University
of Zimbabwe for UNCTAD, 1995.
Natural
Resource Management And Sustainable Development: The Case
of The Gold Sector in Ghana (PDF) - Dr Peter Claver
Acquah, Environmental Protection Council, Ghana, for UNCTAD,
1996.
An Integrated
Participatory Framework for Sustainable Development: The
Case of Namaquland, South Africa (PDF) - Olle Östensson,
UNCTAD. - Presentation of a comprehensive approach to resource
development illustrated through an application to Namaqualand
in South Africa.
Socio-Economic
consequences of the restructuring and privatization of the
Alexkor diamond mine. Namaqualand, South Africa (PDF)
- Report on project SAF/97/A14 to the Department of Economic
Affairs and Tourism of the Government of the Northern Cape
province, South Africa.
|
|
|
| Distance Learning Courses |
|
Mineral
Law and Policy
Author: Elizabeth Bastida
Co-ordinator: Janeth Warden-Fernandez
University of Dundee, 2002.
The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral
Law and Policy (CEPMLP) [http://www.cepmlp.org]
in collaboration with the Centre for Medical Education.
The Mineral Law and Policy course documents
below form two units that provide an introduction to the complete
course offered through the CEPMLP. These introductory units
refer to the fundamentals of mineral law and policy including
its underlying technical, economic and political factors,
as well as the basic concepts and instruments of mineral law.
The aim of the complete course is to provide
participants with an overview of the core concepts of mineral
law as practised in a variety of jurisdictions, identifying
the main instruments of mineral law and policy including mining
codes and mineral agreements. This is accompanied by an overview
of the contemporary evolution of mining legislation, mineral
investment agreements, major actors and their legal and policy
status. Further information on the complete course may be
obtained from the CEPMLP website [http://www.cepmlp.org].
The introductory course documents are:
Title
Page (PDF)
Introduction
(PDF)
Unit
1: Fundamentals of Mineral Law and Policy (PDF)
Unit
2: Basic Instruments and Concepts of Mineral Law
(PDF)
Readings
List (PDF)
Mineral
and Petroleum Taxation
Author: Philip Andrews-Speed
Coordinator: Janeth Warden-Fernandez
University of Dundee, August 2000.
The Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral
Law & Policy (CEPMLP) [http://www.cepmlp.org]
in collaboration with the Centre for Medical Education.
Mineral
and Petroleum Taxation (PDF) - English version
Sistema
Tributario para Minerales y Petróleo (PDF)
- Spanish version
|
|
|
|
