The Politics of Coals Decline (1994) examines the decline of the European coal industry and assesses its future prospects. It shows how the manner and rate of this decline is determined as much by political as by economic factors, including the pol...Loe edasi...
This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. It is key reading for development, planning and infrastructure courses as well as professionals and researchers involved in international d...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a transdisciplinary analysis of the political, social and environmental aspects of governance and its implementation in the mining sector. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of the mining and extractive indust...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive guide is for anyone who wants to design with purpose, empathy, and impact. Rather than rushing to solutions, it champions the art of framing and refining a problem, revealing how powerful design begins with asking smarter question...Loe edasi...
This book comprehensively analyses Industry 6.0 and its integration with the UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the construction industry....Loe edasi...
This book explores the use of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Hydraulic Fracturing (HF) as a method for geologic sequestration and demonstrates that CO2 can induce three-dimensional, sinuous cracks with numerous secondary branches, creating ideal pathways f...Loe edasi...
This book provides essential guidance on mine safety for mining professionals. From navigating complex hazards to interpreting evolving standards, it offers indispensable insights tailored to the unique challenges of the mining sector. Readers will...Loe edasi...
The basic principle of the railway is one of great antiquity and wooden railways were used in many European mines from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. But the most far-reaching developments, as Dr. Lewis shows in this classic and hard-to-fi...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on mining and the challenges for this industry as it transitions and evolves as the demand for products and responsible and sustainable mining ever increases. It will appeal to scholars, students, and professionals in mining, extra...Loe edasi...
This book explains how and why Zimbabwes extractive industry indigenisation over-promised its benefits yet under-delivered upon implementation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resour...Loe edasi...
Manipulating the design process can be a stressful learning experience and it can be difficult to decide how to resolve design problems. This book explores and illustrates the close relationship between emotion and the design process by using new mo...Loe edasi...
This book examines lithium extraction in Chile within the global energy transition, highlighting its ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions. Its of interest to students, scholars, and environmental advocates studying energy transitions, c...Loe edasi...
Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures deals with the occurrence, prediction and control of subsidence issues encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects....Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, this book (now with a new preface by the author) is a biographical study of class, culture, and community in a mining village. It traces some of the principal social changes in British society in the twentieth century and ra...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1967, this book discusses the attempt in ancient and modern times to exploit one of the great mineral areas of Europe. The mines at Tharsis played an important part in the formation of the United Alkali Company. At the time o...Loe edasi...
This book aims to provide actual methods of calculation and standard details followed by professionals in industrial projects pertaining to Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) structures backed by practical design and standard details....Loe edasi...
This book explores the continuation of coal mining in Australia despite growing awareness of its contribution to the climate crisis. Through an in-depth ethnographic study, Kari Dahlgren reveals the complex and often contradictory ways that miners,...Loe edasi...
This text teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling engineering. It covers fundamental aspects of well control and includes procedures and well control/kill methods. It features a wealth of questions to commonly encountered...Loe edasi...
Based on ethnographic and historic research in Australia and India, this book compares the politics and resistance to coal in the two countries, particularly focusing on the time period between 2009 and 2018, and the case of the Carmichael coalmine...Loe edasi...
