الوصف: Heavy Metal: Earth's Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world. Minerals and metals – for batteries, circuit boards, wiring and other components – are essential to a digital, carbon-neutral economy. But how can we grapple with the environmental, social and geopolitical challenges caused by the extraction and use of these critical resources? Concise, accessible, and engaging, the essays in this timely collection intertwine a broad spectrum of disciplines to help us understand and reimagine our relationship with minerals. Exploring a wide range of themes, from the colonial history of mining and Indigenous resistance, to new frontiers in exploration geology, waste management and recycling, this book draws on experts from fields as diverse as geology, mining engineering, law, economics and public policy. The book also explores mineral resources through an artistic lens, with a collection of stunning images from the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, and excerpts of a new musical work, the Heavy Metal Suite. This thought-provoking and ultimately hopeful book guides us towards a more responsible, ethical and sustainable use of metals and minerals. It is essential reading for anyone interested in how we supply the resources needed for a carbon-neutral economic future.

المؤلفون: Philippe D. Tortell

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Mineral industries--Environmental aspects, Mineral industries--Social aspects

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Fossils, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems

الوصف: 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 greatly across countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but in others, disputes have erupted over land use, property rights, environmental damage, and revenue sharing. Corporate social responsibility programs are increasingly relied upon to manage company-community relations, yet conflicts persist in many settings, with significant costs for companies and communities. Exploring the many factors and drivers that characterize relationships among different actors within the sector, the volume contributes towards the development of practical wisdom, collective understanding, common sense, and prudence required for the mining sector and community partners to realize the economic potential and social and environmental responsibilities of non-renewable resource development. The book examines case studies from Canada, Scandinavia, and the Philippines, three regions amongst the world's top countries of mining operations. Drawing on their extensive experience in these regions, the contributors explore distinctive mining sectors in the Global North and South, the variation surrounding different types of extractive industries, and at different scales, and the legal processes in place to protect local communities. Key themes include corporate social responsibility, impact assessment, foreign ownership, Indigenous Peoples, gender, local insurgency, and mining disasters as well as climate change. The book identifies areas of future research and pathways to achieving stronger, respectful, and mutually beneficial relationships at the nexus of global mineral extraction and local communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, sustainable business and corporate social responsibility, Indigenous studies, and sustainable planning and development.

المؤلفون: Nicolas D. Brunet, Sheri Longboat

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Mineral industries--Environmental aspects, Mineral industries--Social aspects, Mineral industries--Health aspects

تصنيفات: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Natural Resource Extraction, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, NATURE / Ecology, NATURE / Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Environmental Science

الوصف: More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each author has presented a striking image as an invitation to consider the ghosts of colonialism and imperialism in today's global economy. In defiance of those who claim that today's capitalist system is free of racism and exploitation, this book shows that the past is not behind us, it defines our world and our lives. This book takes the reader on a global tour, from Malaysia to Canada, from Angola to Mexico, from Libya to China, from the City of London to the Australian outback, from the deep sea to the atmosphere. Along the way we meet the financiers, artists, advertisers, activists and everyday people who are grappling with the entangled legacies of empire.

المؤلفون: Paul Gilbert, Clea Bourne, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Mineral industries--Social aspects, Postcolonialism, International economic relations--Sociological aspects, Exploitation, Racism

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

الوصف: This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the wisdom from Latin American rural and forest communities'understandings of extractivist phenomena, and the destruction and changes in lives and lived environments they create. The author explores the many different types of extractivism, ranging from agroextractivist monocultures to mineral extraction, and analyzes the differences between them. The existential transformations of Brazil's Amazon and Cerrado regions, previously inhabited by Indigenous people but now being deforested by colonizers who expand soybean plantations, are analyzed in detail. The author also compares extractivisms with the local and broader existential changes through global production networks and their shifts, produced by monoculture plantation-based extractivist operations. Anchored in the author's own ethnographic data and comparison of lessons across multiple extractivist frontiers, the chapters integrate the many accounts of violence, and onto-epistemic and moral changes in extractivist enclaves, looking at these with the help of political ontology. The book offers details on how to characterize and compare different types and degrees of extractivisms and anti-extractivisms. This transdisciplinary book provides new organizing concepts and theoretical frameworks for starting to analyze the unfolding natural resource politics of the post-coronavirus era, the advancing climate emergency, and the ever more chaotic multi-polar world. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of international development, global value chains, political economy, Latin American Studies, political ecology, and international trade, as well as anyone engaged with the practical and political issues related to globalization. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

المؤلفون: Markus Kröger

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Indigenous peoples--Brazil--Social conditions, Environmental protection--Brazil--Citizen participation, Mineral industries--Social aspects--Brazil, Natural resources--Social aspects--Brazil, Agricultural industries--Social aspects--Brazil, Economic development--Environmental aspects--Brazil, Political ecology--Brazil

تصنيفات: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

المؤلفون: Li, Fabiana, 1976- author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Peru., Mineral industries -- Political aspects -- Peru., Mineral industries -- Economic aspects -- Peru., Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Peru., Mines and mineral resources -- Peru., Social conflict -- Peru., Mineral industries -- Economic aspects., Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects., Mineral industries -- Political aspects., Mineral industries -- Social aspects., Mines and mineral resources., Social conflict.

جغرافية الموضوع: Peru.

المؤلفون: Echave C., José de, 1957- author.

المساهمون: Passuni Pineda, Silvia Yanina, author., Mendoza Nava, Armando, author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Mineral industries -- Economic aspects -- Peru -- Cuzco (Department), Mineral industries -- Economic aspects -- Peru -- Apurímac (Department), Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Peru -- Cuzco (Department), Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Peru -- Apurímac (Department), Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Cuzco (Department), Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Apurímac (Department), Mineral industries -- Economic aspects., Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects., Mineral industries -- Social aspects.

جغرافية الموضوع: Peru -- Apurímac (Department), Peru -- Cuzco (Department)

المؤلفون: Haluk, Markus Martinus Ignatius Oserogo, 1980- author.

المساهمون: Triharyanto, Basil, editor.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Freeport Indonesia, Inc., Human rights -- Indonesia -- Mimika., Social conflict -- Indonesia -- Mimika., Civil rights -- Indonesia -- Mimika., Social responsibility of business -- Indonesia -- Mimika., Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Mimika., Civil rights., Human rights., Mineral industries -- Social aspects., Social conflict., Social responsibility of business.

جغرافية الموضوع: Indonesia -- Mimika.

الوصف: On social conflict and human rights abuse related to the business operation of Freeport Indonesia mining company in Papua, Indonesia.

المساهمون: Göbel, Barbara, editor., Ulloa, Astrid, editor., Göbel, Barbara (Anthropologist), editor.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Mineral industries -- Colombia., Mineral industries -- Latin America., Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Colombia., Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Latin America., Indians of South America -- Land tenure -- Colombia., Indians of South America -- Land tenure.

المساهمون: Bedoya García, César, editor., Moreno Hermoza, Gustavo, editor., Caravedo Chocano, Javier, editor., Ormachea Choque, Iván, editor.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Social conflict -- Peru., Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Peru., Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Case studies.

المؤلفون: Dabroy, Jahir, author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Political participation -- Guatemala -- Huehuetenango (Department), Democracy -- Guatemala -- Huehuetenango (Department), Community power -- Guatemala -- Huehuetenango (Department), Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- Guatemala (Department), Community power., Democracy., Mineral industries -- Social aspects., Political participation., Political science.

جغرافية الموضوع: Huehuetenango (Guatemala : Department) -- Politics and government., Guatemala -- Guatemala (Department), Guatemala -- Huehuetenango (Department)