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How different mining industries across the world affect landscapes, people and politics. In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial.Looking at resource extraction in numerous locations at different stages of development, including North, West and South Africa, India, Kazakhstan and Australia, a broad picture is created, covering coal, natural-gas, gold and cement mining, from corporate to 'artisanal' extraction, from the large to the small scale. The chapters answer the questions: What is ideological about resource extraction? How does extraction transform the physical landscape? And how does the extractive process determine which stakeholders become dominant or marginalised? Contributing to policy debates, Mining Encounters uncovers the tensions, negotiations and disparities between different actors in the extractive industries, including exploiters and those who benefit or are impoverished by resource exploitation.(Provided by publisher)

Mineral industries --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Extractive industries --- Extractive industry --- Metal industries --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Mining industry --- Mining industry and finance --- Industries --- Mining engineering --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Industrial economics --- Economic sociology --- Environmental aspects. --- E-books

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An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative. Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that have arisen as a result, and the contradictions between the imperatives of exponential economic growth, and those of environmental sustainability, and society as a whole.Bringing an innovative, ethnographic toolkit to bear on a crisis that is at once global and highly localised, the authors shift attention away from the consequences of climate change, to a focus on the social relations and power structures that continue to prevent effective action. (Provided by publisher)

Climate and civilization. --- Civilization and climate --- Civilization --- Climatology --- Climate and civilization --- Economic development --- Capitalism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment --- Economic aspects --- Environmental aspects --- E-books --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:327.7H42 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Specifieke internationale organisaties en samenwerking: milieu