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_aMining and Natural Hazard Vulnerability in the Philippines : _bDigging to Development or Digging to Disaster?. |
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_aLondon : _bAnthem Press, _c2013. |
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| 490 | 1 | _aAnthem Environmental Studies | |
| 505 | 0 | _aMining 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aFidel 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aVolcanoes: 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aInadequate 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aIndustrial 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | _aThe phenomenon known as the Dutch disease. | |
| 520 | _aThis 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 | _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic 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 | _aEnvironmental risk assessment -- Philippines. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aMine accidents -- Philippines. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aMineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- Philippines. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aMines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- Philippines. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aNatural disasters -- Philippines. | |
| 655 | 4 | _aElectronic books. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aJacobson, R. Daniel. | |
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