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Book Synopsis Mining Morality by : William P. George
Download or read book Mining Morality written by William P. George and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing “self-sharpening tools” found in the work of theologian and philosopher Bernard Lonergan, Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’, and international law, William P. George brings mining to personal and collective moral awareness by “prospecting for ethics” at selected sites: (1) Butte, Montana, “the Richest Hill on Earth,” once bound to Chuquicamata, Chile, by a company that spanned two continents and nearly owned a state; (2) the tiny island nation of Nauru, called Pleasant Island until it was devastated by phosphate mining and the breaking of a sacred trust by foreign powers; (3) the deep seabed, governed by the United Nations Law of the Sea, a “constitution for the oceans” that regards much of the resource-rich seabed as humankind’s “common heritage”; (4) Africa, with its uranium mines but also its conflicts over what “being nuclear” means in the wake of colonialism, apartheid, and Hiroshima; and (5) mineral-rich asteroids speeding through space where mining rights are contested, even as space entrepreneurs look to become the world’s first trillionaires. George introduces readers to remarkable moral miners––the women of Butte and Chuquicamata, a World Court judge from Sri Lanka, and the Rocket Boys of Coalwood, West Virginia, to name a few––and leads them to consider not only the morality of mining––what’s good and not so good about resource extraction––but also the mining of morality, a venture that Socrates called “the examined life.”
Download or read book Responsible Mining written by Sara Bice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible. However corporations have little impetus to act responsibly without being held to account by an informed and active public, and by strong institutions and governments which not only create but also enforce legislation. Yet what does such practice look like? This book shows how the concept of responsible mining is based on five key principles or pillars: holistic assessment; ethical relationships; community-based agreements; appropriate boundaries and good governance. Together, these pillars circumscribe global best practice and innovative ideas to catalyse new and improved approaches to a sustainable mining industry. The author argues that these practices are critical to the future viability and social acceptability of the global mining industry and draws on a range of case studies, including from Australia, Canada, Central Asia, Papua New Guinea and west Africa. The role of informed communities, governments and civil societies in holding the industry to account to achieve responsible mining is assessed. The book explains how companies judge what effects they may have on communities and investigates ways to improve the prediction and prevention of such impacts and to provide clearer, more meaningful public communication. It offers alternatives to common ‘corporate social responsibility’ practices in which mining companies adopt roles which are usually the remit of government. Ultimately, it looks to the future, exploring the essential pathways towards responsible mining.
Download or read book The Moral Landscape written by Sam Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.
Book Synopsis Mining ethics and sustainability : papers from the World Mining Congress 2013 by :
Download or read book Mining ethics and sustainability : papers from the World Mining Congress 2013 written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial & Mining Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Facts, Values, and Morality by : Richard B. Brandt
Download or read book Facts, Values, and Morality written by Richard B. Brandt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by an influential moral philosopher, focuses on how value judgments and moral belief can be justified.
Book Synopsis Money and the Morality of Exchange by : Jonathan P. Parry
Download or read book Money and the Morality of Exchange written by Jonathan P. Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility by : Amy Sophia Lunt
Download or read book Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility written by Amy Sophia Lunt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Liberal Theory of Practical Morality by : Earl Spurgin
Download or read book A Liberal Theory of Practical Morality written by Earl Spurgin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral issues and questions abound in daily life. Media outlets frequently raise awareness of many, such as those concerning individuals’ right to privacy. The same venues seldom, if ever, raise awareness of others, such as moral issues and questions concerning our fantasies. Regardless of the level of publicity various venues afford particular moral matters, most people who become aware of those matters find many interesting and important. A problem most encounter, however, is determining the criteria through which they should approach the moral matters they wish to engage. Ethicists have long sought a moral theory that would provide the desired criteria, but most will grant readily that those efforts have not produced a generally-accepted theory. This book presents the author’s case that a kind of moral liberalism is the theory we should use to engage daily life’s moral matters. The author presents a conception of moral liberalism, argues that it is the best approach to practical morality in a plural society, and applies it to several of morality’s practical matters.
Download or read book Mining Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining American written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gold Mines of the World by : James Herbert Curle
Download or read book The Gold Mines of the World written by James Herbert Curle and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Morality of Security by : Rita Floyd
Download or read book The Morality of Security written by Rita Floyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.
Book Synopsis Economic Inequality and Morality by : Richard Madsen
Download or read book Economic Inequality and Morality written by Richard Madsen and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining inequality through the lenses of moral traditions Rising inequality has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years from scholars and politicians, but the moral dimensions of inequality tend to be ignored. Is inequality morally acceptable? Is it morally permissible to allow practices and systems that contribute to inequality? Is there an ethical obligation to try to alleviate inequality, and if so, who is obligated to take that action? This book addresses these and similar questions not through a single lens of morality but through a comparative study of ethical traditions, both secular and religious, Western and non-Western. The moral and political traditions considered are: liberalism, Marxism, natural law, feminism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and Confucianism. The types of inequality examined include property, natural resources, products, wealth, income, jobs, and taxation. The editors open the book with an introduction providing information on contemporary dimensions of the problem of economic inequality, and the book concludes with a summary of the perspectives represented. Economic Inequality and Morality is unusual in that it addresses similarities and differences on the questions of inequality within and across moral traditions. Authors of the individual studies answer a common set of topic-related questions, giving the reader a broad perspective on how a broad range of traditions view and respond to inequality.
Download or read book Engineering and Mining Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Northumberland, and the Border ... Second edition by : Walter WHITE (Librarian to the Royal Society.)
Download or read book Northumberland, and the Border ... Second edition written by Walter WHITE (Librarian to the Royal Society.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economics and Morality by : Katherine E. Browne
Download or read book Economics and Morality written by Katherine E. Browne and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2008-09-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies. Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction and influences of different societies in the global system, the international ethnographic research in this book can help document and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
