Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America

From cave-ins and lung diseases to toxic sludge and water contamination, mining operations create a host of social and environmental problems, now including climate change. Breaking Ground tells the story of mining conflicts in Latin America, where ore extraction has become a big business. Based on...

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Main Author: Spalding, Rose J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2023
Series:Studies Compar Energy Environ Pol Series
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Online Access:HWR01
Summary:From cave-ins and lung diseases to toxic sludge and water contamination, mining operations create a host of social and environmental problems, now including climate change. Breaking Ground tells the story of mining conflicts in Latin America, where ore extraction has become a big business. Based on a decade of research in gold mining towns, corporate headquarters, and legislative chambers, Rose J. Spalding develops a new interpretation of how mining operations secure government approval while also unpacking the circumstances under which anti-mining mobilizations come out on top. This innovative study of the mining sector's rise and fall answers persistent questions about the political logistics shaping the future of resource extraction
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (329 Seiten)
ISBN:9780197643174

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