Human rights and the minerals industry: Challenges for geoscientists

Exploration and Mining Geology

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 5-20

  Handelsman, Simon D ^a   Scoble, Malcolm ^a   Veiga, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; MINERALS INDUSTRY; MINING INDUSTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 29144438868     PISSN: 09641823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/0120005     Document Type: Article

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