This book explains how to protect the environment while exploiting country’s noon-renewable natural resources like the minerals for the overall economic development of the country. It gives a vivid account of the most critical seven components of the environment—air environment, noise environment, water environment, land environment, biological environment, socio-economic environment, and health environment. Analyzing the impact of mining on the ...
Recent Advances in Mineral Development and Environmental Issues
The demand for mineral resources has grown exponentially high to keep pace with the industrial growth. Added to this, paradoxically, the existing mineral resources are in general located in forest and environmentally sensitive areas. This kind of a virtual impasse calls for search for newer mineral deposits and an evolved technology to protect the environment for a sustainable development. Mining activities today are on the cross roads because of the ...
South Asian Perspective on Coastal Zone Management
The five countries of the South Asian Region, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, share complex legacy of social, cultural and environmental realities that characterize the historical and geographical identity of the subcontinent. With population explosion in the South Asian region, the coastal environment is constantly being altered by its pressures and demands, inevitably affecting its use by future generations. The development of many coastal ...
Accounts and Drawings from Underground: East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book, 1906
Over the last twenty years, William Kentridge has built a worldwide reputation as a contemporary artist, best known for his series of ten animated films created from charcoal drawings. In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris bring us an unprecedented collaboration, where they have taken the pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation and transformed it into something wholly new. Kentridge ...
Macro-Economics of Mineral and Water Resources: Important Issues
Coal is nature’s gift to mankind. Be it for cooking food in a poor person’s house or for lighting millions of homes across many countries in the world, it is occupying a position of pre-eminence. This book is about dreams coming true, about taking initiatives, about hard earned success in implementing state of the art technologies, about human approach and passion for work. It’s about transparency, dedication to duty and overall living up to the ...
This book ‘Dipmeter Surveys in Petroleum Exploration’ giving all the required backup of the other allied subjects for easy and meaningful interpretations of the Dipmeters data, so that drilling of dry wells is avoided to maximum possible extent and new discoveries made, enhancing the oil resource of the country.
