Rocks and hard places
Subtitle: the globalization of mining
By: Roger Moody
Series: Global issues in a changing world; Global issues series (Zed Books)
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing; Books for Change; SIRD; David Philip; Zed Books; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Black Point, Nova Scotia; Bangalore, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Cape Town, South Africa; London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781842771754; 9781842771747; 9781552662335
Subjects: Mining corporations -- Environmental aspects; Mining corporations -- Social aspects; Environmental degradation -- Political aspects; Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects; Sustainable development; Environmental management
Other titles: Rocks & hard places
Description: "The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries. Roger Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining corporations' recent public relations offensive extolling the virtues of large-scale mining and its alleged compatibility with sustainable development, and reveals the unprecedented wave of community and trade union opposition to projects in both the South and the North.

This important book concludes with urgent proposals to check the role of multinationals in a sector that has always been at the core of resource exploitation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Through the mine field; title: How the World Bank backs bad miners; title: Cursed by resources; title: Blood, toil and tears; title: The destruction of construction; title: Sacrifice areas; title: Winning hearts and mines; title: No means no!