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"Not just a terrific read, but an important life to have on the national record." - George NegusThe swashbuckling West Australian entrepreneur Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest took on mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto at their own game - and won. In this unauthorised biography, Andrew Burrell traces Twiggy's business triumphs and disasters to reveal the complicated man behind the myth. Why do his mining ventures attract so much controversy? And what do his philanthropic schemes tell us about him and his plans for the future? It takes extraordinary force of will, combined with boundless energy and cunning, to create enterprises on such a mammoth scale. With the value of iron ore now integral to the health of the federal budget, Twiggy's business affects all Australians. This entertaining book gives a unique insight into one of the most powerful men in Australia today."A riveting investigation of one of our richest businessmen, biggest philanthropists and greatest fast-talkers." - Laura Tingle"This is a book that needed to be written … rich in detail with fascinating insights into the family history, the failures, flaws, and ultimate rise of John Andrew Henry Forrest." - The Sydney Morning HeraldAndrew Burrell has been a journalist for twenty years, covering business and politics in Australia, South-East Asia and China. He has worked for the Australian Financial Review and is currently a senior business journalist for the Australian in Perth, where he has covered the WA mining boom since 2006. He won the business prize at the WA media awards in 2006 and 2009.

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction by Bonnie Campbell -- 1. Mining in Ghana: Implications for National Economic Development and Poverty Reduction by Thomas Akabzaa -- 2. Guinea and Bauxite-Aluminium: The Challenges of Development and Poverty Reduction by Bonnie Campbell -- 3. Mining, Poverty Reduction, the Protection of the Environment and the Role of the World Bank Group in Mali by Gisèle Belem -- 4. Mining and Proection of the Environment in Madagascar by Bruno Sarrasin -- 5. Governance, Human Rights and Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Marie Mazalto -- Conclusion: What Development Mpdel? What Governance Agenda? by Bonnie Campbell -- Index.

The Anthropocene has arrived riding a wave of pollution. From ";forever chemicals"; to oceanic garbage patches, human-made chemical compounds are seemingly everywhere. Concerned about how these compounds disrupt multiple lives and ecologies, environmental scholars, activists, and affected communities have sought to curb the causes of pollution, focusing especially on the extractive industries. In Worlds of Gray and Green, authors Sebastián Ureta and Patricio Flores challenge us to rethink extraction as ecological practice. Adopting an environmental humanities analytic lens, Ureta and Flores offer a rich ethnographic exploration of the waste produced by Chile's El Teniente, the world's largest underground mine. Deposited in a massive dam, the waste—known as tailings—engages with human and non-human entities in multiple ways through a process the authors call geosymbiosis. Some of these geosymbioses result in toxicity and damage, while others become the basis of lively novel ecologies. A particular kind of power emerges in the process, one that is radically indifferent to human beings but that affects them in many ways. Learning to live with geosymbioses offers a tentative path forward amid ongoing environmental devastation

This book examines state-business relations in semi-peripheral South Africa and peripheral Zimbabwe after each country's transition to majority rule. Baran examines the implementation of liberalisation and indigenisation policies by the majority governments of South Africa and Zimbabwe used to complete the states' economic transformations.

I wish to consider how industries exploiting natural resources may be expected to develop. It is not my purpose to consider their entire relation with the economy of which they form a part. Rather, I wish to examine the logic of their own changes in technology and technique in response to stimuli from the rest of the economy. In tracing this development, I shall stress the changing technology itself; the adjustment of property and tenure concepts; some aspects of location and transportation; and the impact of all these changes on industrial and market organization.As an analytical technique for tracing these changes, I shall make use of a "stages of development" approach. It will be shown that most industries working natural resources may be said to be in one of three, roughly consecutive stages. The precise dating of the transitions between the stages is highly arbitrary, but this defect is unimportant since the chief function of the stages approach in its present context is to bring out the successive impacts on resource exploitation of two outside forces. The first of these is a mechanical, capital-using technology. The second is the application of science to "control" the resource, biological or mineral, in the same sense that agricultural and manufacturing industries have control over their processes.In the model, stress is laid on the industries that today are still extracting raw materials from nature: fishing, hunting, logging, oil and gas, metals, and water. Agricultural activity also properly belongs with these industries. However, since agriculture has already passed well into the third stage, it is referred to chiefly for purposes of example and comparison. The farmer no longer "hunts" his cattle, nor "collects" wild rice or fruit.

In November 2014, CCSI convened a one-day roundtable focused on lessons learned from good governance initiatives for extractive industry investments and large land-based agricultural investments. The roundtable brought together a range of stakeholders working on extractive industry investments and/or land-based forestry and agricultural investments, including representatives from civil society, government, academia, and the private sector. CCSI has published an outcome note from this roundtable. Key structural differences between the extractive industries and the forestry and agriculture sectors mean that not all lessons learned from good governance initiatives related to extractives investments or land-based agricultural investments are transferrable. However, large-scale extractive industry investments and land-based forestry and agricultural investments share enough challenges regarding certain issues that efforts to better understand the benefits, drawbacks, and best practices around good governance initiatives can be a useful exercise. The roundtable facilitated conversation on these issues, while providing an opportunity for participants to brainstorm further ways to explore shared lessons around governing natural resources. This outcome document aims to provide more information for stakeholders interested in increased knowledge sharing around this topic.

"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such as infrastructural developments, protected areas for nature conservation, and even geoengineering in the name of carbon mitigation. Contributors argue that extractive violence is not an accident or side effect, but rather a core logic of the 21st Century planetary experience. Acknowledgement is made not only of the visible violence involved in the securitization of extractive enclaves, but also of the symbolic and structural violence that the governance, economics, and governmentality of extraction have produced. Extractive violence is shown not only to be a spectacular event, but an extended dynamic that can be silent, invisible, and gradual. The volume also recognizes that much of the new violence of extraction has become cloaked in the discourse of "green development," "green building," and efforts to mitigate the planetary environmental crisis through totalizing technologies. Ironically, green technologies and other contemporary efforts to tackle environmental ills often themselves depend on the continuance of social exploitation and the contaminating practices of non-renewable extraction. But as this volume shows, resistance is also as multi-scalar and heterogeneous as the violence it inspires. The book is essential reading for activists and for students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource management, political ecology, sustainable development, and globalization"--

Global Commodity Politics, Africa, and Responsibility -- Slick Perspectives: Analyzing Responsibility Pertaining to Commodities in CEMAC -- Approaches to Responsibility in Cameroon: National Flash Points -- Greasy Business: Perspectives on Responsibility in Cameroon's Palm Oil Sector -- Crude Commitments: Contending Perspectives on Responsibility along the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline -- Sugaring Up Responsibility: Sugar and Formal CSR in Cameroon -- Bittersweet Realities: Cocoa and Responsibility -- Responsibility Politics in Comparative Perspective.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Systems apologetics -- Quotations -- Units -- Chapter 1: Ecological living -- Global and local, large and small scale -- Reference -- Chapter 2: Ecological living, the steady state and sustainability -- 2.1 The necessity of equality -- 2.2 Do we need more growth? -- References -- Chapter 3: Ecological living and material decoupling -- 3.1 The elephant in the steady-state room? -- 3.2 Decoupling -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Is decoupling possible? -- The optimists -- The pessimists -- 4.1 Evidence for relative decoupling -- 4.2 Is absolute decoupling possible? -- 4.3 How can we increase decoupling? -- 4.4 Decoupling and the market -- 4.5 "Free trade" -- 4.6 Cities, industrial ecology and urban metabolism -- 4.7 Without decoupling, is equity possible in a steady state? -- 4.8 Population -- 4.9 Some troubling questions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Ecological living and material resources -- 5.1 Exponential growth in a finite world -- 5.2 Resources, reserves, and running out -- 5.3 How fast do we have to decouple? The Equation of Sustainability -- 5.4 Summary -- 5.5 Can a non-growing economy avoid recession or depression? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Renewable energy -- 6.1 100% renewable energy: A difficult but possible transition -- 6.2 100% WWS by 2050 -- 6.3 Why we need large scale wind and solar -- 6.4 Getting to 100% renewables -- 6.5 Subsidies -- 6.6 GHG fee and dividend -- 6.7 Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Agriculture -- 7.1 Industrial agriculture -- 7.2 Agroecology -- 7.3 Recycling in agriculture - The facts of life -- 7.4 Meat and the environment -- 7.5 Potential for agricultural land as a carbon sink -- 7.6 Conclusion.