Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines : (Record no. 94570)
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| Classification number | TD195.M5 -- H65 2012eb |
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| Classification number | 363.73/1 |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Holden, William N. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines : |
| Remainder of title | Digging to Development or Digging to Disaster?. |
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| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Anthem Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013. |
| 264 #4 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | ©2013. |
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| Extent | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
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| Series statement | Anthem Environmental Studies |
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| Formatted contents note | Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines_9781783080519 -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION -- Phenomenon under Study: Mining amid Natural Hazards -- Neoliberalism: A Controversial Paradigm -- The Disciplinary Location of this Book: Geography -- The four traditions of geography -- Mining: A fruitful topic of geographical research -- Political ecology: A geography-based research field -- The Demarcation of an Important Caveat -- The Outline of the Book -- Chapter One MINING IN THE PHILIPPINES -- The Philippines: A Developing Country in Southeast Asia -- An introduction to the archipelago -- A developing country -- A society dominated by an oligarchy -- Class structure in pre-Hispanic society -- The Spanish colonial period, 1568-1896 -- The revolution of 1896 -- The American colonial period, 1898-1946 -- The Bell Parity Amendments -- A poorly performing economy -- A landscape of poverty and marginalization -- Spaces of vulnerability -- A landscape of violence -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front -- The New People's Army -- Poverty: The common denominators of both insurgencies -- Overseas Filipino workers: Modern heroes -- Mineral Resources of the Philippines -- The History of Large-Scale Mining in the Philippines -- Chapter Two GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO ENCOURAGE MINING -- The Ascendency of Neoliberalism -- Modernity: Trust and confidence in experts -- Economics as a discourse of modernity -- The origins of neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism in the Developing World -- Structuralism: The precursor to neoliberalism -- The role of the World Bank -- Neoliberalism and Mining -- Neoliberalism in the Philippines -- Import substitution industrialization during the 1950s -- Export promotion under Diosdado Macapagal -- Ferdinand Marcos and enhanced export promotion. |
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| Formatted contents note | Fidel Ramos: Philippines 2000 -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: The ideal neoliberal subject -- Neoliberalism and Mining in the Philippines -- Prospects for the mining industry to the year 2000 -- The Mining Act of 1995 -- A reinvigorated mining industry -- Mining: A Leading Engine for Economic Growth -- Chapter Three ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF MINING -- Mining: An Activity with Substantial Potential for Environmental Harm -- Mining's Visual Impacts -- Impacts on Biodiversity -- Acid Mine Drainage -- Mining's most serious environmental effect -- Measuring acid mine drainage -- The mobilization of heavy metals -- Acid mine drainage: Difficult to predict and prevent, impossible to stop -- Subaqueous Tailings Disposal: The Solution to Acid Mine Drainage? -- Tailings dam failures -- Selected tailings dam failures -- The Marcopper tailings spill on the island of Marinduque -- Chemical Spills from Mining Operations -- Cyanide: A chemical agent used in modern mining -- Mercury: A by-product of mining -- Mining's Impacts on Water Resources -- Mining's Impacts upon the Social Environment -- Mining: Clearly an Activity with Substantial Potential for Environmental Harm -- Chapter Four MINING AMID NATURAL HAZARDS -- The Philippines: Spaces of Hazard -- Typhoons: One of the World's Most Powerful Atmospheric Phenomena -- Typhoons: Tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific -- The four characteristics of typhoons -- Vulnerability of the Philippines to typhoons -- Mining and typhoons -- Typhoons and climate change: An increasing risk -- Earthquakes: Extreme Seismic Risk -- Earthquakes: A release of geologic energy -- Vulnerability of the Philippines to earthquakes -- Mining and earthquakes -- Tsunamis: Seismically Induced Floods -- Tsunamis: Seismic sea waves -- Tsunamis in the Philippines -- Mining and tsunamis -- Volcanoes: An Additional Source of Seismic Activity. |
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| Formatted contents note | Volcanoes: Extrusive igneous phenomenon -- Volcanoes in the Philippines -- Volcanoes and mining -- El Niño-Induced Drought: An Abrupt Decrease in Rainfall -- The El Niño Southern Oscillation: An alteration of global weather patterns -- The effect of El Niño in the Philippines -- El Niño-induced drought and mining -- El Niño-induced drought and climate change -- Synergistic Relations between Hazards -- Synergistic effects between natural hazards -- Natural hazards and anthropogenic environmental degradation -- How These Hazards Can Create a Disaster -- Disaster defined -- The concept of vulnerability -- Poverty: An important determinant of vulnerability -- The Philippines: Spaces of vulnerability -- The high population density of the archipelago -- Poverty in rural areas -- The reliance of the rural poor upon subsistence agriculture and aquaculture -- Indigenous peoples: The most marginalized of the marginalized -- The Philippines: Too Dangerous for Mining? -- Mining and the Bataan Nuclear Plant: Risky Activities in a Hazard-Prone Country? -- Chapter Five TECHNOCRATIC RESPONSES TO THE RISKS -- Government and Industry Awareness of the Risks -- Environmental Impact Assessment: A Tool of Environmental Management? -- Introduction to environmental impact assessment -- Environmental impact assessment in the Philippines -- Environmental impact assessment of mining projects -- The outline of the process -- A process designed for rapid approval -- The importance of environmentally critical areas as spaces of vulnerability -- Assessing the adequacy of the environmental impact assessment system -- Public participation in the environmental impact assessment process -- The importance of participatory planning in disaster risk reduction -- The discretionary nature of public hearings -- A narrow definition of who may participate. |
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| Formatted contents note | Inadequate dissemination of information -- Arnstein's hierarchy of citizen participation -- A denial of environmental justice -- Technology as the Solution to the Risks -- Technology can prevent disasters -- Technological responses: A controversial topic -- The pollution haven hypothesis -- Best practices in environmental management -- Industry reluctance to bear the necessary costs -- Government reluctance to mandate the appropriate technology -- Technology is only as good as the people who use it -- Australian and Canadian mining companies operating in an unfamiliar environment -- Weak Governance of Mining in the Philippines -- The concept of governance -- The capture of the state by powerful forces -- A lack of state resources to regulate mining properly -- Conflicts of interest at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources -- The high levels of corruption prevailing in the Philippines -- Corruption in the Philippines -- Quantifying corruption -- Corruption and consent -- Low levels of civil liberties in the Philippines -- The extrajudicial killings -- The concept of extrajudicial killings -- The magnitude and location of the killings -- The methodology of the killings -- The role of Major General Jovito Palparan -- The killings of antimining activists -- The extrajudicial killings as a violent dimension of neoliberalism -- From Technological Solutions to Risk Society -- Chapter Six RISK SOCIETY IN THE PHILIPPINES -- Technocratic Solutions as Modernity -- Mining as Ecological Modernization -- With technology, environmental problems will not be obstacles to economic growth -- Mining: A discourse of ecological modernization par excellence -- Risk Society: A Rejection of Modernity -- Traditional society, industrial society and risk society -- Traditional society: Risks beyond the ambit of human control. |
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| Formatted contents note | Industrial society: Risks emanating from wide-scale social forces -- Risk society: The inability of humans to control their own technologies -- Large-scale mining in the Philippines: An example of risk society -- An extension of risk society into new terrains -- The stratified distribution of the risks -- How the poor bear the costs -- How the rich receive the benefits -- Civil Society Opposition to Mining: A Lack of Faith in Technology -- The Alternative Mining Bill -- Progressive legislation in response to the risks -- A prohibition of mining in hazard-prone areas -- A calamity protection fund -- The management of tailings dams -- Modernity: A concept with shallow roots in the Philippines -- Civil society in the Philippines -- Social movements as vehicles for change -- The opposition of the Roman Catholic Church to mining -- Armed opposition of the New People's Army -- The opposition of local government units -- A localized backlash against mining -- Local governments in the Philippines -- Civil society access to local government units -- The withholding of consent by local governments -- Local government mining moratoriums -- From Risk Society to the Viability of Mining -- Chapter Seven MINING AS A FLAWED DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM -- Mining: A Questionable Development Strategy -- The Twin Pillars of Sustainable Development -- Mining: A Lack of Benefits to Current Generations -- Mining: A poor source of employment creation -- Mining: A low scope for tax revenues -- A lack of linkages to other industries -- The volatility of mineral prices -- The long-term downward trend of real mineral prices -- The falling real prices of minerals over time -- The phenomenon of dematerialization -- The recent rise in commodity prices -- The recent rise in gold prices -- The resource curse thesis -- The crowding out of other economic sectors. |
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| Formatted contents note | The phenomenon known as the Dutch disease. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This book explores how natural  hazards in the Philippines can amplify the environmental harm prevalent in mining and pose a substantial threat to the livelihoods of archipelago's poor, who depend upon subsistence agriculture and subsistence aquaculture. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Environmental risk assessment -- Philippines. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mine accidents -- Philippines. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Philippines. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- Philippines. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Natural disasters -- Philippines. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jacobson, R. Daniel. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Holden, William N. |
| Title | Mining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines : Digging to Development or Digging to Disaster? |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London : Anthem Press,c2013 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781783080519 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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| Uniform title | Anthem Environmental Studies |
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