Roger Moody

Rocks and Hard Places (eBook, ePUB)

The Globalization of Mining

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries.

Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining corporations' recent public relations offensive extolling the virtues of largescale mining and its alleged compatibility with sustainable development, and reveals the unprecedented wave of community and trade union opposition to projects in both the South and the North.

This important book concludes with urgent proposals to check the role of multinationals in a sector that has always been at the core of resource exploitation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848137752
• Artikelnr.: 38355653

Autorenporträt

Roger Moody is Managing Editor of the Mines and Communities website. He is an experienced international researcher and campaigner who has traveled extensively, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. As an activist he has worked with community organizations in South America, the Asia-Pacific and Africa. He has been keynote speaker at numerous conferences on mining, including the World Council of Churches consultation on mining and indigenous peoples (1996), Third World Africa's conference on the social and environmental impacts of mining (2000) and most recently, the World Social Forum, Mumbai, on the global impacts of mining (2004). Among his many works are the highly acclaimed The Gulliver File: Mines, People and Land - A Global Battleground (Minewatch/WISE Glen Aplin/International Books, 1992), The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Zed Books, 1988) and his most recent work, The Risks We Run: Mining, Communities and Political Risk Insurance (International Books, Utrecht, 2005).