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...
This book lays out the evolution of the often contested Construction Management discipline, covering the what, where and who of research in this emerging field....Loe edasi...
The Design and Installation Guide for Roof Tiling is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofing construction. Written by a team of experts from the NFRC and the RTA, the representative groups in industry for roofing cons...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the advancements in rock blasting techniques for mining and civil construction rock excavation projects including need for and importance of rock blasting, related theories, challenges in rock blasting operation, and rock blastin...Loe edasi...
Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in the 1930s in conjunction with the economic forces working behind the industry, and on the other hand...Loe edasi...
This book examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate the conditions of life. Of use to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to emphasize the importance and significance of natural stone in the construction of a city, Salamanca, recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It describes the buildings, the stones, and the stone quarries....Loe edasi...
Bringing together a wide range of topics, this work offers practical insight into oil spill occurence, behavior, and simluation for professionals and academics in environmental organizations and government, shipping and marine industry, and offshore...Loe edasi...
This new book provides unique information on the extent and severity of derelict mines impact on environmental degradation and human and environmental health. It examines the nature of derelict mines, short and long-term risks to sensitive receptor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Sep-2024, Kirjastus: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781003488347)
Details sustainable supply chain management through computational and multicriteria decision-making analyses, exploring it in the context of transportation and electricity generation. Discusses soft computing methods, sustainability management forec...Loe edasi...
The aim of this edited book volume is to present new concepts, case studies and applications of Digital Twin and relevant tools in the built environment context....Loe edasi...
This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, the study paints a fresh portrait of industrial workers and their families in Córdoba province, enriching our un...Loe edasi...
The book focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works. Explosives and their actions are explained in terms of basics, principles, and related chemistry....Loe edasi...
This book explores the roles of sunars/ swarnakars (goldsmith or jewellery makers), consumers, trade and the policies that bring a change in the gold jewellery industry in India and Indias position in the global market scenario....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the unique differences in how AI should be developed and used in science and engineering. Through inclusion of definitions and detailed examples, this book covers actual and realistic requirements as well as avoidance of certain...Loe edasi...
This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless how far in the future....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982, this book is a survey of the world tin industry up until the late 20th Century. The author used scattered and hard to access journal sources in the course of his research. The book gives a wide-ranging picture of the wo...Loe edasi...
This book on biomimcry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainablity assessment tool. It is important reading for academics, professionals,...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1984, at a time when international commodity control was brought from the periphery to the centre of international trade policy, this book provided a new and more comprehensive approach to, and an analytical appraisal of, int...Loe edasi...
Developing Industrial and Mining Heritage Sites offers a multifaceted examination of the challenges and opportunities in the development of industrial & mining heritage....Loe edasi...
Designing for Dementia is written by an interdisciplinary team of professionals and academics whose aim is to present lessons learnt from the Dementia Demonstration House at the Building Research Establishments Innovation Park....Loe edasi...
This handbook emphasizes the need for community action as part of an integrated flood risk management approach, highlighting case studies that have made positive impacts, resulting in resilience-enhancing actions which can improve global community u...Loe edasi...
This concise atlas covers all aspects of CT image analysis and their interpretations. It is focused on the CT scanned images and the data gathered from various carbonate reservoirs. Numerous high-resolution images illustrate various aspects of carbo...Loe edasi...
The Derbyshire Miners (1962) examines the development of the Derbyshire coalfield and the growth of trade union organization among the miners. It looks at the successful unionization, and the history, structure, policy and finances of the union....Loe edasi...
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate how a Training-within-Industry (TWI) Job-Programme could reduce human factor related harm in construction....Loe edasi...
Written by an industry expert with over fifty years of experience, this book details the various solvent processes that are used in crude oil refineries....Loe edasi...
This book explores the common approaches to upgrade heavy and extra-heavy crude oils by means of catalytic hydrotreating, emphasizing hydrogen addition technology as well as carbon rejection alternatives....Loe edasi...
The book provides primary information about civil engineering to both a civil and non-civil engineering audience in such areas as construction management, estate management, and building....Loe edasi...
