Rocks and Hard Places
The Globalization of Mining
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2007
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84277-174-7 (ISBN)
Zed Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84277-174-7 (ISBN)
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The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mineral consumption is outstripping the capabilities of both communities and fragile ecosystems to cope with bigger and bigger mines. This book identifies mining's key players and presents the costs for local communities and environment.
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.
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 largescale 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.
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.
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 largescale 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.
Roger Moody is an experienced international researcher and campaigner who has traveled extensively, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. As an activist he has worked with community organizations in South America, the Asia-Pacific and Africa. Among his many works are the highly acclaimed The Gulliver File: Mines, People and Land - A Global Battleground (1992), The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Zed 1988) and his most recent work, The Risks We Run: Mining, Communities and Political Risk Insurance (2005).
1. Through the minefield
2. How the World Bank backs bad miners
3. Cursed by resources
4. Blood, toil and tears
5. The destruction of construction
6. Sacrifice areas
7. Winning hearts and mines
8. No means no
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Global Issues |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Technik ► Bergbau | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84277-174-4 / 1842771744 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84277-174-7 / 9781842771747 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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