Mining and the Environment
Subtitle: Case Studies from the Americas
Publisher: IDRC
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780889368286
Subjects: Development studies; Management of land & natural resources; Mining industry; Current Affairs; Politics/International Relations; North America; International
First sentence: More than two decades ago, the famous "Report to the Club of Rome: The Limits to Growth" (Meadows et al. 1972) predicted that the principal problem facing the world would be the depletion of nonrenewable resources, notably fossil fuels and metals.