Title: Rocks and 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.
Subjects: Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Mines and mineral resources, Environmental aspects, Environmental aspects of Mines and mineral resources, Environmental aspects of Mining corporations, Environmental degradation, Environmental management, Mines and mineral resources, Mining corporations, Political aspects, Political aspects of Environmental degradation, Political aspects of Mines and mineral resources, Social aspects, Social aspects of Mines and mineral resources, Social aspects of Mining corporations, Sustainable development, Alternative Press Collection, Nachhaltigkeit, Bergbaubetrieb, Umweltvertraglichkeit, Multinationales Unternehmen, Sozialvertraglichkeit, Industries, environmental aspects, Mineral industries, Mines, Aspect de l'environnement, Aspect social, Aspect politique, Aspect économique, Environnement, Dégradation, Sociétés minières, Political science & theory