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  • Extraction Politics Extraction Politics
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    Extraction Politics

    An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the company constructs a presence in the places it operates and shapes meanings and orientations toward the...
    $176.11

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  • Oil and Development in Ghana Oil and Development in Ghana
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    Oil and Development in Ghana

    This book gives a comprehensive overview of Ghana's hydrocarbon economy using actor network and assemblage theories to contest the methodological nationalism of mainstream accounts of the resource curse in resource-rich countries.
    $110.48

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  • Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China
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    Industrial Tree Plantations and the Land Rush in China

    This book analyses the political and economic causes, mechanisms and impacts of the industrial tree plantation boom in China. In the past two decades, the industrial tree plantation sector has been expanding rapidly in China, especially in Guangxi...
    $375.76

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  • Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance
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    Transnational Corporations in Urban Water Governance

    This book examines the role played by business in urban water governance by analyzing the evolution of the global private water sector along with four public-private partnerships in Mexico and the U.S. The local nature of water services often hides the...
    $372.01

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  • Our Extractive Age Our Extractive Age
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    Our Extractive Age

    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local...
    $372.01

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    Making Commons Dynamic

    With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process...
    $375.76

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    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design
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    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design

    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design is a comprehensive, practical guide to the investigation, design, operation and monitoring of mine waste dumps, dragline spoils and major stockpiles associated with large open pit mines. These...
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    $188.00

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    Boom, Bust, Boom
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    Boom, Bust, Boom

    For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on mining copper but Christopher Columbus protected his ships from rot by lining their hulls with it. Today, this pliable and sturdy metal can...
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    $29.00

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  • Dust and Dreams
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    Dust and Dreams

    This lively, evocative book uncovers the rich history of the former gold, silver, copper and leading mining communities that once existed in the Southern Tablelands, Braidwood, Shoalhaven, Monaro and south-west slopes districts of New South Wales. Dust...
    $50.00

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