Mining and Communities: Understanding the Context of Engineering Practice

by Rita Armstrong, Caroline Baillie, Wendy Cumming-Potvin

Mining has been entangled with the development of communities in all continents since the beginning of large-scale resource extraction. It has brought great wealth and prosperity, as well as great misery and environmental destruction. Today, there is a greater awareness of the urgent need for engineers to meet the challenge of extracting declining mineral resources more efficiently, with positive and equitable social impact and minimal environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303100986X
• ISBN13: 9783031009860
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"