Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development – serie
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Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience
International Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
2744 kr
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While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global …
Mining in Latin America
Critical Approaches to the New Extraction
Av Kalowatie Deonandan, Michael L. Dougherty
Häftad, 2019
772 kr
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The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and …
Social Terrains of Mine Closure in the Philippines
Häftad, 2019
313 kr
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The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established. Mine closure …
Regime Stability, Social Insecurity and Bauxite Mining in Guinea
Developments Since the Mid-Twentieth Century
Av Penda Diallo
Inbunden, 2019
997 kr
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This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.Guinea is amongst the world’s top producers of bauxite, and the country’s rich mineral …
Local Experiences of Mining in Peru
Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes
Inbunden, 2020
997 kr
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This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context. Mining is a major component of economic growth in many resource endowed …
African Artisanal Mining from the Inside Out
Access, norms and power in Congo’s gold sector
Av Sara Geenen
Häftad, 2019
851 kr
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Artisanal mining is commonly associated with violent conflict, rampant corruption and desperate poverty. Yet millions of people across Sub Sahara Africa depend on it. Many of them are living in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to important mineral reserves, but also to a plethora of …
Governance in the Extractive Industries
Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation
Av Lori Leonard, Siba N. Grovogui
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty …
Stakeholders, Sustainable Development Policies and the Coal Mining Industry
Perspectives from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Av Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2586 kr
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This book identifies the impact of internal and external stakeholders on the implementation of sustainable development policies in the coal mining sector in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.The book assesses what activities and conditions need to be improved so that sustainable …
Stakeholders, Sustainable Development Policies and the Coal Mining Industry
Perspectives from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Av Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book identifies the impact of internal and external stakeholders on the implementation of sustainable development policies in the coal mining sector in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.The book assesses what activities and conditions need to be improved so that sustainable …
Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan
Political, Social, Environmental and Cultural Contexts
Av Troy Sternberg, Kemel Toktomushev m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource …
Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan
Political, Social, Environmental and Cultural Contexts
Av Troy Sternberg, Kemel Toktomushev m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource …
Energy, Resource Extraction and Society
Impacts and Contested Futures
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects which are often overlooked. Energy impacts are often reduced to the narrow configurations of greenhouse gas emissions, …
Africa's Mineral Fortune
The Science and Politics of Mining and Sustainable Development
Av Saleem H. Ali, Kathryn Sturman m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to bring technical expertise on modern mining alongside appropriate governance mechanisms for social …
Mining and Sustainable Development
Current Issues
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Mining is a transformative activity which has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts can be both positive and adverse, enhancing as well as disrupting economies, ecosystems and communities. The extractive industries have been criticised heavily for their adverse impacts …
Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience
International Perspectives
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global …
Our Extractive Age
Expressions of Violence and Resistance
Av Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish
Häftad, 2021
619 kr
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Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban …
Our Extractive Age
Expressions of Violence and Resistance
Av Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban …
Anthropology of Resource Extraction
Av Lorenzo D'Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers
Häftad, 2022
619 kr
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This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical …
Oil and National Identity in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Conflicts at the Frontier of Petro-Capitalism
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic …
Oil and National Identity in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Conflicts at the Frontier of Petro-Capitalism
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic …
Anthropology of Resource Extraction
Av Lorenzo D'Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical …
Mountain Movers
Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
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The products of mining are everywhere – if it wasn’t grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced the …
Mountain Movers
Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change
Häftad, 2015
764 kr
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The products of mining are everywhere – if it wasn’t grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced the …
Governance in the Extractive Industries
Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation
Av Lori Leonard, Siba N. Grovogui
Inbunden, 2017
2512 kr
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Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty …
Energy, Resource Extraction and Society
Impacts and Contested Futures
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
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Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects which are often overlooked. Energy impacts are often reduced to the narrow configurations of greenhouse gas emissions, …
Shaping of Greenland’s Resource Spaces
Environment, Territory, Geo-Security
Av Mark Nuttall
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
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The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland’s society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenland’s resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of …
Shaping of Greenland’s Resource Spaces
Environment, Territory, Geo-Security
Av Mark Nuttall
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland’s society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenland’s resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of …
Andean States and the Resource Curse
Institutional Change in Extractive Economies
Av Gerardo Damonte, Bettina Schorr
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic …
Andean States and the Resource Curse
Institutional Change in Extractive Economies
Av Gerardo Damonte, Bettina Schorr
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic …
Local Communities and the Mining Industry
Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities
Av Nicolas D. Brunet, Sheri Longboat
Inbunden, 2023
2133 kr
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This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia.Mining’s contribution to economic development varies …
