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SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES. Chapter one: Introduction. 1.1 Background of Study. Community development policies in Nigeria over the years have shown that our policy makers have either not really understood the problems of community, ray.
Opencast nickel mining is common in natural forests of Indonesia. However, rehabilitation of postmining degraded land is difficult. We investigated the effect of opencast nickel mining on soil chemical properties and the growth of two fast-growing tropical tree species, Falcataria moluccana and Albizia saman . Soil was collected from post-nickel mining land and a nearby natural …
Social media mining includes social media platforms, social network analysis, and data mining to provide a convenient and consistent platform for learners, professionals, scientists, and project managers to understand the fundamentals and potentials of social media mining. It suggests various problems arising from social media data and presents ...
Emerging issues can be associated with cultural or industrial factors or trends, such as changes in commodity demand, workforce, or technology. The Mining Program attempts to identify issues emerging in the next 5 to 10 years and has identified production demands, workforce issues, and mining practices as areas of future concern.
Earth's increasingly deadly and destructive climate is prompting social work leaders to focus the profession's attention on one of humanity's most pressing issues: environmental change. Typhoons are hitting the South Pacific with greater severity and regularity. Hurricane Katrina prompted the largest forced migration of Americans since the Civil War.
Seven trends shaping the future of the mining and metals industry. Automation - such as this driverless truck - and digitalization are two of the forces shaping the future of mining and metas. Image: REUTERS/Melanie Burton - RC1E2E3671D0. The mining and metals industry is recovering from one of its most difficult periods in decades.
THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF DIAMOND MINING IN CHIADZWA ... the overlapping issues of democracy, resource extraction, human rights, and sustainable development. ... (which became the major diamond mining area) was once protected under customary and traditional law.
Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has a known negative effect on the community's health; therefore, assessment to monitor community health is essential to detect any issues and enable early treatment. Because ASGM-related health issues are complex and cannot be addressed effectively with a traditional one-time health assessment alone, both long-term and regular health assessments ...
On the other hand, these economic benefits have come with social and environmental costs. The mining industry is extracting a large amount of groundwater in one of the driest desert regions in the world. As the mining sites overlap with nature conservation areas, mining activities have been responsible for ecosystem degradation.
Social media mining is the process of obtaining big data from user-generated content on social media sites and mobile apps in order to extract patterns, form conclusions about users, and act upon the information, often for the purpose of advertising to users or conducting research. The term is an analogy to the resource extraction process of mining for rare minerals.
Air pollution is limited largely to airborne dust. Underground mining may lead subsidence. (A major area not dealt with in this excerpts is the working environment, that is, worker health and safety; readers interested in this issue are referred to Section 11 of Hartman, 1992.)
Finally, some authors stress that the high diversity in the socio-economic performance of the mining activity depends on a mix of factors which include also the company structure, the typology of mine operation, the commodity extracted and the general social and demographic conditions of the interested area (Wilson, 2004, van der Ploeg, 2011).
• Deep-sea mining is the process of retrieving mineral deposits from the deep sea – the area of the ocean below 200 m. • Depleting terrestrial deposits and rising demand for metals are stimulating interest in the deep sea, with commercial mining imminent. • The scraping of the sea floor and pollution from mining processes can wipe out entire species – many yet to be discovered.
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA ASSIGNMENT RKGS 6100: VALUES, ETHICS & BUILT ENVIRONMENT DR. SPAHIC OMER NUR NABILA AHMAD AZAM G 1016160 RKGS 6100: VALUES, ETHICS AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT URBANIZATION: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS At present, countries all over the world are facing with the same issues and problems concerning environment, social…
the funding of the Social Development Management Program of the communities in the area covered by the mining contract. Any IP in the area benefits through the royalty payments of the company. The NCIP's role in determining the validity of an IP's claim to the area is a contentious issue. Becoming a mine contractor does not happen overnight.
Finally, some authors stress that the high diversity in the socio-economic performance of the mining activity depends on a mix of factors which include also the company structure, the typology of mine operation, the commodity extracted and the general social and demographic conditions of the interested area (Wilson, 2004, van der Ploeg, 2011).
Mining activities create social problems such as the creation of 'ghost towns' which are abandoned towns that were previous bubbling mining communities. In Nigeria, two cases of ghost towns are demonstrated. The relocation of mine workers from a mining area due to mineral depletion is a primary cause of these ghost towns.
dependency on mining of natural resources within the catchment areas of the mining activities. These circumstances with repercussions of corruption and inefficient management of corporate social responsibility places organizational goals above the community and the nation. These setbacks necessitate the successful practice of corporate
Indigenous Peoples and Mining. The relationship between indigenous peoples and mining is defined by struggles over access to land. The interests of resource industries, of course, lie in securing unfettered (as far as possible) access to land and guaranteeing that access over the longer term. This has sometimes meant quite heated campaigns ...
Environmental and social impacts of mining have been well-documented and an ample literature exists on this topic. The following discussion summarizes those environmental and social issues that formed the basis for the Mining and Critical Ecosystems framework. Environmental and social impacts are divided into waste management issues, impacts to ...
This is the social justice issue of large-scale mining. Large-scale mining is against the sustainability of the environment and of the people's cultural identity and quality of life. AIR. Mining has a great effect on the quality of the air. Since mines need to blast through …
MINING IN THE CARAGA REGION, PHILIPPINES: INSIDERS' PERSPECTIVES ON EMERGENT SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS By Sarah Herbst A THESIS Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTERS OF SCIENCE Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies 2011
The ISA has a different revenue management challenge: how to distribute the proceeds from mining in the Area equitably, and for the benefit of all of humankind 76.
Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various personal perspectives: that of the ordinary man ...
Social Media Challenges #3: Providing ROI with Social Media Convince and Convert says that measuring ROI was listed as one of the biggest social media challenges by almost 59% of digital marketers in 2017. Turning followers into customers, making money using SMM and making significant sales online is a frequent topic on the web.
Mining activities are the integral part of societal development. However, the mitigation of mine impacted environmental and social issues warrant a corrective action supported by appropriate post ...
Scandinavia is an area synonymous with innovation. Alongside geographies like Australia and Canada, the Nordics are a renowned hotbed for the research and development of new mining technologies. The Fennoscandian Shield has provided both challenge and opportunity in this respect.
Miners seeking to work in areas where land and other traditional rights are in play face complex issues, and sometimes get limited help from governments reluctant to deal with traditional rights. SRK advises clients about the requirements to engage with indigenous peoples; for example, SRK assisted a mining company in Suriname to plan and ...
Indian population has more than 17.5 million working children in different industries, and incidentally maximum are in agricultural sector, leather industry, mining and match-making industries, etc. The term "child labor" is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is ...
We face multiple challenges in doing that, especially given a changing and uncertain future climate, and a rapidly growing population that is driving increased social and economic development, globalization, and urbanization. How best to meet these challenges requires research in all aspects of water management.
Issues of tribal development, integration and autonomy have confronted the Indian society right from the British rule in India. Complexity of Indian tribal population made the task of integration and autonomy even difficult. Ethnic tribal sub nationalism posed serious challenges and hampered the progress of the communities over the time.
Argentina: Mining investment in Argentina was US$56 million in 1995. By 2008, 13 years after an IBRD-supported reform of the mining sector began, it reached US$2.4 billion. Exports had grown by 275 percent to US$4.1 billion. The Bank also worked with sub-national governments because mineral rights are held provincially in Argentina.
within the area come mainly to serve the mining industry and this constrains the development of other industries. The appropriation of human resources by mining challenges local sustainable development, including the normal functioning of the social and business environment.
y The World Economic and Social Survey 2013 aims towards contributing to the deliberations on sustainable development with a focus on three important cross-sectoral issues: sustainable cities, food security and energy transformation. While the entire range of thematic areas identified for action and follow-up in section V
Environmental issues may present themselves as temporary or permanent changes to the atmosphere, water, and land due to human activities, which can result in impacts that may be either reversible or irreversible. Social issues may emerge in the workplace of a client's/investee's operations and may also impact surrounding communities.
A mining operation must either own the land being mined or secure a contract for the "rights" (the legal right) to mine the land. But being free to mine the land is only the beginning. The mining company must invest in equipment and facilities. Beyond that, the mining company must have one …
Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining occurs in approximately 80 countries worldwide. There are approximately 100 million artisanal miners globally. Artisanal and small-scale production supply accounts for 80% of global sapphire, 20% of gold mining and up to 20% of diamond mining. It is widespread in developing countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania ...
Using social media mining that leverages advances in natural language processing and machine learning to pull useful data from text and images, cities can transform these social posts into data points ripe for analysis. Policing is one area that seems an obvious fit for social mining initiatives. Social monitoring has great potential to make ...