Social impacts of mining: Changes within the local social landscape

Rural Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-165

  Petrova, Svetla ^a   Marinova, Dora ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boddington; Dependency; Mining; Social impact; Social sustainability; Transiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883679073     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.2013.22.2.153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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