Common ground: balancing rights and responsibilities for natural resource investments and community development

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By Rhett ButlerApr 3, 2015, 12:41 am195 ptsTrending
Given globalization and rising demands for energy and raw natural resources, extractive industries and their investors deepen the search to the last reaches of the planet for fuel and material. Despite rapid urbanization, millions of people in remote and underserved regions from Colombia to Zambia increasingly…

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