Mining, society, and a sustainable world
By: Jeremy P. Richards, editor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9783642011023; 9783642011030
Subjects: Environmental economics; Nachhaltigkeit; Sustainable development; Social aspects; Mines and mineral resources; Mineral industries; Umweltschutz; Mineralischer Rohstoff; Soziale Verantwortung; Bergbau; Gesellschaft; Entwicklungspolitik; Environmental aspects; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Description: This is the first book of peer-reviewed, edited papers that examines the broad subject of the minerals industry in relation to sustainable development. The book takes a proactive, positivist, and solution-oriented approach, while not shying away from identifying the real problems that mining raises in respect to social and economic development, environmental impact, and human development in general.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The resource curse : a modern myth? / Phillip Crowson; title: Extractive economies, growth, and the poor / Graham A. Davis; title: The challenge of mineral wealth : using resource endowments to foster sustainable development / K. McPhail; title: The role of mining in the economics of developing countries : time for a new approach / Keith Slack; title: A hierarchy of natural resources with respect to sustainable development - a basis for a natural resources efficiency indicator / Markus Wagner and Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer; title: Sustainable energy and mineral resource extraction and consumption - can a viable biosphere be preserved? / W.G. Ernst; title: Sustainable development and mining - an exploratory examination of the roles of government and industry / Arianna Waye ... [et al.]; title: Natural resource-based sustainable development using a cluster approach / Indira Singh and Jim Evans; title: Improving environmental performance in the minerals supply chain using a life-cycle approach : the role of fuel and lubricant suppliers in enabling sustainable development / Turlough F. Guerin; title: Global trends in mine reclamation and closure regulation / James M. Otto; title: Environmental liability in the mining sector : prospects for sustainable development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Marie Mazalto; title: Applications of stakeholder engagement and eco-efficiency as enablers of corporate responsibility in the Australian mining and minerals processing industry / Turlough F. Guerin; title: Socio-economic impacts of the Nanisivik and Polaris mines, Nunavut, Canada / Léa-Marie Bowes-Lyon, Jeremy P. Richards, and Tara M. McGee; title: Assessing the socio-economic impacts of mining : case study of the Landau Colliery, South Africa / Anthony Dane; title: Public policy processes and sustainability in the minerals and energy industries / Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh; title: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : panacea or white elephant for sub-Saharan Africa? / Gavin Hilson and Roy Maconachie.