Extracting Innovations : Mining, Energy, and Technological Change in the Digital Age

Omtale

This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges. The socio-ecological fabric of innovation in the extractive industries is considered through an integrative approach that brings together engineers, natural scientists, and social scientistsacademics and practitionersgiving an empirically grounded and realistic evaluation of the innovations in this sector. It synthesizes a series of questions including: