Timothy Biggs

Mining (eBook, ePUB)

Why It's Essential for a Sustainable Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future? Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues that modern life is simply unthinkable without mining on a huge scale. From the mobile phone in your pocket to the building you're standing in, the minerals and metals extracted by the mining industry make modern life possible. This fact will become more significant in the context of the environmental challenges we face. Tackling climate change will require technologies ranging from electric cars to solar panels, all of which require immense - and increasing - amounts of copper, iron ore, lithium and other metals. This makes it vital that states and societies respond constructively to the practical needs of the mining industry, and that mining companies address the very real problems associated with their operations. Anyone who wants to understand the stark realities of how our economies will have to change in the context of contemporary environmental problems cannot afford to miss this brilliantly clear account from someone who understands this most vital - and misunderstood - of industries from the inside.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Scrivener
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509567515
• Artikelnr.: 75266809

Autorenporträt

Timothy Biggs is a mining industry veteran and a Professor of Practice with the Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

About the writer                                
Foreword, by Mark Cutifani CBE       
                             
1.   Mining is essential                                          
2.   Mining 101                                      
3.   The operational challenges of mining                       
4.   The economic and financial challenges of mining                  
5.   Why mining is essential for sustainability and the energy
transition     
6.   The mining industry's role                                 
7.   Responsible and sustainable mining                         
            
8.   Mining is essential for a sustainable future   
                             
Appendix: Examples of our reliance upon metals and minerals