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The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nation Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.
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Foreword Introduction
PART I Global trends in mineral resources consumption and production: an overview 1 Critical raw materials: an introduction 2 Development of mineral supply and demand from 1950 to 2020: Cold War and consumerism 3 Current global patterns of consumption of non-energy minerals and metals: trends and challenges of life in a material world 4 Future mineral demand: climate change and materials for the energy transition 5 Future mineral demand: the necessary transition toward sustainability 6 Current and future supply of minerals: technical, environmental and business issues 7 Exploring for deeply buried ore deposits 8 Mining for a low-carbon economy: new technologies and integrated governance 9 The case for global cooperation concerning the sustainable management of mining and minerals
PART II Technology, minerals and sustainable development: an overview 10 Minerals for future low-and zero-CO2 energy and transport technologies 11 Construction materials and sustainable development 12 Spatial-temporal views on urban construction material flow and stock towards sustainability 13 Soil remineralizer: a new route to sustainability for Brazil, a giant exporting agro-mineral commodities 14 Urban mining of metals and minerals for a circular economy and the sustainable development goals 15 Resource and production technologies for scandium 16 Advanced manufacturing and high-quality materials: phosphorus
PART III Management of social, environmental and economic issues in the mining industry: an overview 17 An evolving agenda for environmental, health, and safety management in mining 18 Overlapping and interacting water and land risks in mining regions 19 Environmental transparency of global oil and gas companies: an independent comparative assessment 20 Rethinking the social license to operate and community participation: the contribution of social impact assessment 21 Gender mainstreaming for sustainable mining in sub-Saharan Africa: opportunities and challenges 22 Cooperatives as a centrepiece for formalizing small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: rationale, benefits and limitations 23 Making extractives work for sustainable development in resource-rich countries 24 Mining cities and sustainable development 25 Ethical supply chains of metals and minerals 26 Civil society and mining: an era of expanded approaches and voices will accelerate SDG impacts 27 Understanding and addressing 'modern slavery' in DRC-UK cobalt supply chains 28 Indigenous peoples and mining in the Circumpolar North: Canada, Finland, and Russia 29 Mining and sustainable development - a project-level approach to identify opportunities for collaboration and innovation
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Natalia Yakovleva is Professor of Strategy at KEDGE Business School, France. Natalia holds a BSc in Economics and PhD in Environmental Studies. She specialises in corporate social responsibility, sustainable business and circular economy, and has published in the
Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of World Business and
Nature.Edmund Nickless,
a geologist and a trainer, has worked extensively on mineral resource issues. He currently chairs the
Resourcing Future Generations initiative of the International Union of Geological Sciences. Until retirement, he was Executive Secretary of the Geological Society of London. Previously, he worked for the British Geological Survey and HMG Cabinet Office.
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The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nation Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.
