Author: Aida T. VidalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Resource Kit on Mining Issues in Mindanao
Author: Aida T. VidalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines
Author: William N. Holden Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783080515
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The archipelago of the Philippines is well endowed with nonferrous mineral resources, and in recent years the Philippine government, acting under the influence of the dominant and seemingly ubiquitous neoliberal development paradigm, has liberalized its mining laws in order to accelerate economic development. Yet the Philippines is also a country highly prone to a variety of natural hazards that have the ability to interact adversely with mining’s potential for environmental degradation. Thus there are great dangers inherent in pursuing such a development paradigm: earthquakes can destabilize tailings storage facilities, typhoons can flood tailings ponds, and mine-pit dewatering can enhance the competition for groundwater resources during droughts. This study explores how these hazards amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining, and reveals the substantial threat posed to the livelihoods of the archipelago’s poor, as well as the inadequacies of the very institutions designed to protect their environment.
Mining and Mineral Resource Policy Issues in Asia-Pacific
Author: Australian National University. Division of Pacific and Asian HistoryPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Micro Impacts of Macroeconomic Adjustment Policies in the Natural Resources and Environmental Sector
Author: Herminia Arocena- FranciscoPublisher:
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Category : Environmental economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries
Author: G.M. HilsonPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1135291217
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to examine both the positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of artisanal and small-scale mining in developing countries. In recent years, a number of governments have attempted to formalize this rudimentary sector of industry, recognizing its socioeconomic importance. However, the industry continues to be plagued by
Indigenous People and Economic Development
Author: Katia IankovaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131711731X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Indigenous peoples are an intrinsic part of countries like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Finland, USA, India, Russia and almost all parts of South America and Africa. A considerable amount of research has been done during the twentieth century mainly by anthropologists, sociologists and linguists in order to describe, and document their traditional life style for the protection and safeguarding of their established knowledge, skills, languages and beliefs. These communities are engaging and adapting rapidly to the changing circumstances partly caused by post modernisation and the process of globalization. These have led them to aspire to better living standards, as well as preserving their uniqueness, approaches to environment, close proximity to social structures and communities. For at least the last two decades, patterns of increased economic activity by indigenous peoples in many countries have been viewed to be significantly on the rise. Indigenous People and Economic Development reveals some of the characteristics of this economic activity, 'coloured' by the unique regard and philosophy of life that indigenous people around the world have. The successes, difficulties and obstacles to economic development, their solutions and innovative practices in business - all of these elements, based on research findings, are discussed in this book and offer an inside view of the dynamics of the indigenous societies which are evolving in a globalised and highly interconnected contemporary world.
Mindanao 2000 Development Framework Plan: without special title
Author: Engineering Earth
Author: Stanley D. BrunnPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048199204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2248
Book Description
This is the first book to examine the actual impact of physical and social engineering projects in more than fifty countries from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book brings together an international team of nearly two hundred authors from over two dozen different countries and more than a dozen different social, environmental, and engineering sciences. Together they document and illustrate with case studies, maps and photographs the scale and impacts of many megaprojects and the importance of studying these projects in historical, contemporary and postmodern perspectives. This pioneering book will stimulate interest in examining a variety of both social and physical engineering projects at local, regional, and global scales and from disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspectives.
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