| Featured Documents / Sites |
| Business
as Usual with Marginal Change (PDF) - Dr. Emil Salim,
Extractive Industries Review, 22 July 2004. Final comments
to the World Bank Management Response |
| Civil Society Views on the World Bank's
Extractive Industries Review - http://www.eireview.info/ -
New website. |
| Mining
Ombudsman case study on the social and environmental
impacts of the Vatukoula Gold Mine in Fiji. |
| Prior
Informed Consent and Mining: Promoting Sustainable Development
of Local Communities - Report by the Environmental
Law Institute, Oxfam International and Peruvian Society
of Environmental Law. |
| No
Rock Unturned: Revitalizing the Economies of Mining Dependent
Communities (PDF 344KB) - MiningWatch Canada, August
2003. |
| Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals,
Metals and Sustainable Development - The Terms
of Reference (PDF 56KB) and Draft
Rules of Procedure (PDF 60KB) are available for the
newly announced Forum. |
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| Guía
para la Gestión de las Autoridades Locales de
Pueblos y Distritos Mineros de América Latina
y el Caribe - 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. Summarises
a number of documents from the series 'Recursos Naturales
e Infraestructura' which are also available
for download. |
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| Publish
What You Pay - The campaign aims to help citizens
of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments
accountable for the management of revenues from the oil,
gas and mining industries. |
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| Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI) - Draft Supplement for the
Mining and Metals Sector - The draft Supplement to
the GRI Guidelines deals with economic, environmental,
and social performance indicators specific to the mining,
minerals, and metals industry and is available for public
comment until August 2004. |
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| Worldwatch
Paper #162: The Anatomy of Resource Wars - Michael
Renner, October 2002. The paper is now available as a
free PDF download from Worldwatch. |
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| "Striking
A Better Balance" - Extractive Industries Review Final
Report - The final report of the Extractive Industries
Review (EIR). The EIR was established to review and make
recommendations to guide the future activites of the
World Bank Group
in the mining, oil and gas sectors. |
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| Mining
Ombudsman Annual Report 2003 - Oxfam Community Aid
Abroad. |
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| The Regulation of
Mineral Enterprises: A Global Perspective on Economics,
Law and Policy - James Otto and John Cordes. |
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| Leaders
and Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation
- Prof. Neil Gunningham, and Darren Sinclair. Chapter 7
of the book focuses upon voluntary approaches in the mining
sector. |
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| A distance
learning course on Mineral Law and Policy is available
from the MRF Education section. The course has been prepared
by the University of Dundee, United Kingdom. |
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