Ebook: Mining, society, and a sustainable world

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.

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The resource curse: a modern myth? / Phillip Crowson -- Extractive economies, growth, and the poor / Graham A. Davis -- The challenge of mineral wealth: using resource endowments to foster sustainable development / K. McPhail -- The role of mining in the economics of developing countries: time for a new approach / Keith Slack -- A hierarchy of natural resources with respect to sustainable development - a basis for a natural resources efficiency indicator / Markus Wagner and Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer -- Sustainable energy and mineral resource extraction and consumption - can a viable biosphere be preserved? / W.G. Ernst -- Sustainable development and mining - an exploratory examination of the roles of government and industry / Arianna Waye ... [et al.] -- Natural resource-based sustainable development using a cluster approach / Indira Singh and Jim Evans -- 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 -- Global trends in mine reclamation and closure regulation / James M. Otto -- Environmental liability in the mining sector: prospects for sustainable development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Marie Mazalto -- Applications of stakeholder engagement and eco-efficiency as enablers of corporate responsibility in the Australian mining and minerals processing industry / Turlough F. Guerin -- Socio-economic impacts of the Nanisivik and Polaris mines, Nunavut, Canada / Lea-Marie Bowes-Lyon, Jeremy P. Richards, and Tara M. McGee -- Assessing the socio-economic impacts of mining: case study of the Landau Colliery, South Africa / Anthony Dane -- Public policy processes and sustainability in the minerals and energy industries / Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh -- The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: panacea or white elephant for sub-Saharan Africa? / Gavin Hilson and Roy Maconachie

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