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Finding Fort Roberdeau
Fort Roberdeau was a lead mine in central Pennsylvania during the period of the American Revolution. Scant information exists on the original...
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Modeling and analysis of Lily gold mine disasters using geoinformatics
On February 05 2016, a significant and unfortunate series of mine disasters occurred at the Lily gold mine in South Africa, where 79 mineworkers were...
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Sustainability Assessment in Mining: A CSR-Based Analysis Model for Social and Environmental Impact
A simple approach is proposed to study the main factors related to the mining activity’s impact on society, through a corporate social responsibility...
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Mining and Minerals
Mining is one of the oldest industries on Earth, and minerals are essential for the modern society and many industrial processes. The future of the...
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Embedded Extraction: The Chinese State’s Response to the Local Resource Curse
The extraction of mineral resources generates negative environmental and socioeconomic externalities and arouses conflicts between the extractive...
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How Do We Cope with Pollution, a Form of Environmental Damage? Learning from a Community Devastated by Itai-Itai Disease
The heavy and chemical industries, which flourished during Japan’s era of rapid economic growth, wreaked egregious damage to the environment and...
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Urban Expansion and Sustainable Water Argumentation for Africa’s Cities
The chapter argues that urban expansion and sustainable water augmentation is a colonial engineered problem whose impact if not tamed will perpetuate...
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The Economic Geography of Resource-based Cities in North-East China
Northeast China is rich in natural resources and consequently resource extractivism has defined the region’s economic development since early...
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Research on the evolution of sustainable development of declining coal city using system dynamics model
China has numerous declining coal cities, and their sustainable development is lagging due to resource exhaustion, economic recession, and...
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Arbitration of Water Disputes in the African Mining Sector
This chapter highlights the vital role that arbitration plays in resolving water disputes in the African mining sector by examining the nature and...
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Water Quality Rating of Damodar River
The Damodar River was once known as the sorrow of Bengal due to the loss of life and property caused by the floods in almost every monsoon. Since the...
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Mining and Minerals
Mining is one of the oldest industries on Earth, and minerals are essential for the modern society and many industrial processes. The future of the...
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Family Cemeteries of the Upland South as Time Journeys
In this chapter, we examine cemeteries as a time journey, paying specific attention to family cemeteries of the Upland South. Time journeys are...
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Rising Waters and Coastal Maritime Heritage at Risk in Massachusetts: A Warning from the Ada K. Damon Shipwreck Site
During a major winter storm in 1909, the schooner Ada K. Damon was thrown onto a beach in northeastern Massachusetts, where it became a local...
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Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change: An Integrated Approach to Coastal-Zone Assessments in Ireland
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from...
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Heated Attachments to Coal: Everyday Industrial Breadwinning Petro-Masculinity and Domestic Heating in the Silesian Home
In Upper Silesia, domestic heating is a heated topic. This is because it is the leading contributor to extreme air pollution levels. Coal of assorted...
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Baroque Soil: Mexico City in the Aftermath
The September 19, 2017, earthquake caused over 40 buildings to collapse in the center of Mexico City, sparking a massive rescue effort and...
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Towards Zero Waste and the Circular Economy: Green Governance Remakes Seoul
Since the 1990s, Seoul has transitioned from a massively polluted and prodigious producer of urban waste to become a global leader in circular...
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Indigenous/Endogenous Sea Peoples: Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental Regeneration Prospects
Indigenous and Endogenous subsistence Sea Peoples are suffering deeply from expropriation and decline of traditional coastal resources they have...
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Spatial Cognition for Information of World Cultural Heritage
The world cultural heritage is a precious textbook for people to know the history and culture of different countries and nationalities.