Based on a PhD thesis, with a focus on Sierra Leone, this book explores the conflicts between pursuing mining activities to foster economic development and protecting the environment in which such activities take place. This study presents sustainable development as valuable recipe, by which mining ventures could be pursued as an economic imperative (to meet the needs of present and future generations), while protecting the environment and its components in the pursuit of such developments. The study shows that despite the definitional questions, sustainable development has direct and primary relevance for environmental protection in the economic exploitation of natural resources. It identifies a legal character in the concept beyond legislative processes, and a flexibility in its principles that allows for their interpretation within legal rules to enhance environmental protection at the national level. It also illustrates the link between effective implementation and ensuring sustainable mining.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN-13
9781905809059
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106040498
Product Key Features
Author
Priscilla Schwartz
Publication Name
Sustainable Development and Mining in Sierra Leone
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sustainability, Business
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
268 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
148mm
Item Weight
355g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Priscilla Schwartz
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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