William N. Holden, R. Daniel Jacobson

Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines

Digging to Development or Digging to Disaster?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how natural hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining and pose a substantial threat to the livelihoods of archipelago's poor, who depend upon subsistence agriculture and subsistence aquaculture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780857287762
• ISBN-10: 0857287761
• Artikelnr.: 34011705

Autorenporträt

William N. Holden is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and an inactive member of the Law Society of Alberta. R. Daniel Jacobson is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and a Switzer Research Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Figures
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter One: Mining in the Philippines
Chapter Two: Government Efforts to Encourage Mining
Chapter Three: Environmental Effects of Mining
Chapter Four: Mining amid Natural Hazards
Chapter Five: Technocratic Responses to the Risks
Chapter Six: Risk Society in the Philippines
Chapter Seven: Mining as a Flawed Development Paradigm
Chapter Eight: Is Another World Possible?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index