Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to the extractive industries and sustainable development, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the New Extraction
1st Edition
Edited
By Kalowatie Deonandan, Michael L. Dougherty
January 17, 2019
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and ...
Responsible Mining: Key Principles for Industry Integrity
1st Edition
By Sara Bice
June 22, 2016
Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible. However corporations have little impetus to act responsibly without being held to account by an informed and active public, and by strong institutions and governments which not only create but also enforce ...
Mountain Movers: Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change
1st Edition
By Daniel M. Franks
September 17, 2015
The products of mining are everywhere – if it wasn’t grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced the...