Approaches to Handling Environmental Problems in the Mining and Metallurgical Regions (NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Contributors: Walter Leal Filho (Editor); Irina Butorina (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781402013232
Subjects: Applied ecology; Pollution & threats to the environment; Technology & Industrial Arts; Life Sciences - Ecology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; General; Science / Ecology
First sentence: The mining industry has been a key to the development of civilisation, underpinning the Iron Age and Bronze Age, the industrial revolution and the infrastructure of today's information age (Mbendi 2002).