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Bougainville - The long struggle for freedom
The Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources set the scene for further mineral exploitation when a prospecting license virtually gave prospectors the freedom to ... and blatant exploitation of natural resources be it in the form of timber, fisheries or mineral wealth. In some instances, such exploitation has been going on now for scores of years, especially ...
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Peace on Bougainville? (Do or Die)
Africa." Dr Smith from the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College, London, says ... and rebuild the island communities ravaged by the war, oppression from Papua New Guinea and mineral exploitation. The people of Bougainville remain hopeful and optimistic while guarded about the possible ...
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MRF - Africa Home Page
The MRF Africa is a section of the Mineral Resources Forum (MRF) that focuses on development, social, environmental and other issues relevant to mineral resources in Africa. Some of these issues are ... Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 19-22 November 2002. A Joint Seminar on "Management of Mineral Wealth and the Role of Mineral Wealth in Socio-economic Development" by the UN ECA, UN DESA and UNCTAD was ...
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MRF > Law & Policy > Events
Sustainable Development (WSSD) 13-15 Aug 2002 Joint Seminar on "Management of Mineral Wealth and the Role of Mineral Wealth in Socio-economic Development" 11-23 Aug 2002 ACUNS/ASIL Summer Workshop on ... be held during the Summit. Title of event: Joint Seminar on "Management of Mineral Wealth and the Role of Mineral Wealth in Socio-economic Development" Venue: Lusaka, Zambia Dates of Event: 13-15 ...
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ETFRN NEWS 43/44: Forests and conflicts
Liberalization of mineral export was a measure taken by a “cornered” government in 1983 to relieve ... Masisi and Rutshuru. Continuing instability permitted Rwanda easy access to the DRC forests with their mineral wealth – as these were claimed to be particularly dangerous and source of threat to ...
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ETFRN NEWS 43/44: Forests and conflicts
Many of the interests were fuelled by the vast reservoirs of mineral wealth and other natural resources in the DRC. The war in Rwanda ended in 1994, but ...
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Costa Rica - Overview: History of Costa Rica
Central America, indeed from the rest of Latin America , because its people distribute their wealth, land, and power far more equitably. Its social welfare system and parliamentary democracy have no ... Rica by 1611, because it had neither of the two things the Spanish conquistadors wanted : mineral wealth (gold and silver), or an abundant Indian population to work their haciendas. The absence of ...
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National Geographic magazine: April 1998 @ nationalgeographic.com
The Orinoco is a river of many contrasts, and author Donovan Webster visited some of ...
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Minerals Move People
People accordingly will move into developing mineral resource areas. Then, as the mineral base gradually declines, people begin to move out. There are examples of ... , Texas. However, in some instances, once people have come to an area because of the mineral wealth, they find other ways to survive after the minerals are gone. Some areas become farming ...
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Walter Youngquist • The Coming Global Oil Crisis
All through history there have been two responses to mineral wealth. One is to regard it as an infinite cornucopia, and create nothing of permanent ... . The author discusses what Stanford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Rhodes, and Guggenheim did with their wealth from mineral resources. My life was profoundly affected by two of these men, so the argument ...
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