|
|
Documents
This page provides a collection
of documents and information with relevance to the Latin America and Caribbean
region. They are usually in HTML or PDF format. Documents in HTML format
can be viewed through the web browser.
Documents in PDF format require the
Adobe Acrobat Reader software that is free, and available for download,
from the Adobe
website.
|
 |
|
Users who wish to contribute documents
to this page should email the material, preferably in MS Word, Adobe
PDF or text formats, to minerals.forum@unctad.org.
|
Image:
Small Scale Mining in Bolivia.
Source:
Norman Jennings, ILO.
|
| |
| United Nations Documents |
|
United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD)
- Guía
para la Gestión de las Autoridades Locales de Pueblos
y Distritos Mineros de América Latina y el Caribe (PDF
2.7MB) - United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC) and UNCTAD, December 2003. A management guide
for the local authorities of towns and mineral districts
of Latin America and the Caribbean. This document presents a summary
of the following documents from the series 'Recursos Naturales
e
Infraestructura':
- La
función de las autoridades en las
localidades mineras (PDF 324KB)- Patricio Ruiz Maldonado,
Santiago de Chile, mayo de 2003. No. 53, Recursos
Naturales
e
Infraestructura.
- Guías prácticas para situaciones
específicas:
manejo de riesgos y preparación
para respuestas a emergencias mineras - Zoila Martínez
Castilla, Santiago de Chile, julio de 2003. No. 57, Recursos
Naturales
e
Infraestructura. (PDF
Part
1 372 KB, Part
2 64KB, Part
3 284KB)
- Evaluación de la función y el potencial
de las fundaciones mineras y su interacción
con las comunidades locales - Germán del Corral,
Santiago de Chile, agosto de 2003. No. 58, Recursos
Naturales
e
Infraestructura.
- Planeamiento
del desarrollo local - Hernán Blanco,
Santiago de Chile, septiembre de 2003. No. 61, Recursos
Naturales
e
Infraestructura. (PDF
Part
1 356 KB, Part
2 76KB, Part
3 560KB)
- Desarrollo Basado En Los Recursos Naturales No Renovables: Estructura
Legal, Administrativa y Financiera para el Desarrollo Descentralizado
en el Perú - Anida Yupari, 2001.
United Nations Environment Programme -
Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (UNEP-DTIE) - Economics
and Trade Unit (ETU)
International
Labour Organisation (ILO)
The ILO has been involved in mining
sector activities in Latin America and elsewhere. Their principal
areas of concern are small scale mining, safety and health, training
and industrial relations. Work is also conducted on the issue of
child labour across a variety of sectors including mining.
A variety of other
documents on mining are available.
United
Nations Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) - Committee on Natural Resources
The following documents prepared for the former Committee on Natural
Resources meetings are relevant to the Latin America and the Caribbean
region. These may be downloaded in pdf format from here.
- Developments
in Small-Scale Mining - Report of the Secretary-General, UN
Doc: E/C.7/1996/9, 6-17 May 1996.
- Technical
cooperation activities of the United Nations system in mineral
resources - Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc: E/C.7/1998/2,
10-19 March 1998.
- Basic
problem of improving the capacity of developing countries and
economies in transition to capture the
maximum economic and social benefits of their potential for
mineral production - Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc:
E/C.7/1998/4, 10-19 March 1998.
United Nations - Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC)
ECLAC maintains a library
of specialized information on economic and social development of
Latin America and the Caribbean . The library catalogue is available
on-line and contains a significant number of documents on the mining
sector including ECLAC publications. Most are in Spanish.
Recent publications include:
The World Bank Group
-
Community
Development Toolkit. (Spanish Version). The Community Development
Toolkit was published in November 2005, jointly by ICMM, the
World Bank and ESMAP. It is a tool addressed to support government,
industry, and community efforts to realize more sustainable
community development around mining and mineral processing operations.
(PDF file)
- The Pollution Prevention and Abatement
Handbook (PPAH), adopted in July 1998, applies to all World
Bank funded projects. The guidelines are designed to be used in
the context of the World Bank Group’s environmental policies set
out in Operational Policy (OP) 4.01, “Environmental Assessment,”
and related documents. The environmental assessment process sets
the requirements for environmental performance of projects.
The handbook has a range of sectoral guidelines, some of relevance
to the minerals sector (Adobe PDF):
|
|
|
|
Various Organizations
|
|
Dialogue
and Management of Conflicts on Community Lands: The Case of the
Tintaya Mine in Peru. Authors: José De Echave Karyn Keenan María
Kathia Romero Ángela Tapia. Published by CooperAccion, 2006. (PDF
file).
A variety of other documents
on mining and communities are available in Spanish.
Mining
and Sustainable Development Series are new publications of the
Mining Policy Research Initiative (MPRI) aimed at contributing to
the dissemination of relevant information on key topics on mining
and sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The first in the series on "Conflict, consensus and dialogue
in the mining sector" was published June 2004.
Centro
de Investigación y Planificación del Medio Ambiente (CIPMA) / Center
for Environmental Investigation and Planning
- Summary - Sustainability of the mining sector: What role could
a Sustainability Fund play? - Project financed under UNEP's Program
on "Selection, design and implementation of economic instruments"
- Nicola Borregaard, Annie Dufey, Paloma González, Paul
Lewin and Jane Newbold - July 2001. (English
/ Spanish
MS Word document)
Grupo de
Análisis para el Desarrollo
(GRADE) / Group of Analysis
for Development
Various documents are available in Spanish.
IDRC - International Development
Research Centre
The IDRC of Canada funds a number of mining projects in the
Latin America region. Project descriptions are available.
Mandala Projects
The Mandala Projects
is a collection of cross-disciplinary efforts to examine the effects
of globalization on people. The Trade
and Environment Database (TED) and Inventory
of Conflict and Environment (ICE) are two projects under this
banner. Each consists of a series of case studies, research papers
and other information on the areas of trade, conflict, environment,
culture, etc. The following documents are taken from these databases
and relate specifically to the mineral industry and Latin America.
Mining and Communities in Peru and Canada
/ Minería
y Comunidades en Perú y en Canadá
MPRI
Virtual Library
The Mining Policy Research Initiative (MPRI)(Iniciativa de Investigación
sobre Políticas Mineras: Minería, Bienestar y Desarrollo
Sustentable en
América Latina y el Caribe) has a virtual library with an
extensive range of resources on the major mining countries in Latin
America as well as Canada. The information is organized in categories
including research reports, databases, papers, magazines, legislation,
presentations and links. (English, French and Spanish)
MMSD South America
Documents available include:
See the website for more. (Spanish)
Rocky Mountain
Mineral Law Foundation (RMMLF)
A number of publications relating to mining in Latin America are
available. See the publications list available here.
|
|
|
|
