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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"resource extraction"”.
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Environmental Considerations of Space Resource Extraction
… grows, so too does the need for extracting resources from space. The Moon, Mars and asteroids all contain important resources that could assist in these activities, as well as resources that are growing increasingly scarce on Earth. With innovations in space launches continuing to reduce the …
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Liquidity constraints in the resource extraction industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Geospatial Framework for the Use of Natural Resource Extraction in Public Private Partnerships
Resources for the maintenance and expansion of existing highway infrastructure are scarce. Public Private Partnerships (PPP) are feasible solutions to the concern of lagging investment. PPP are increasingly used for the procurement of services and goods, because of their flexibility and ability to …
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Impacts of non-renewable resource extraction on shrubland songbird nest success and abundance
… The Appalachian region is rich in natural resources; it has historically seen high amounts of surface mining for coal and is currently experiencing prolific development of shale gas. Both of these practices alter local habitats and the landscape, and it is essential to understand their …
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Unearthing Greenland’s Resource Frontier: Mineral Resource Extraction and Naalakkersuisut’s Bid for Greenlandic Independence
This dissertation analyses the role that mineral resources have played in visions of Greenlandic Independence over the last decade of Self Rule. As climate change and melting ice make Greenland greener, the trope of a “New North’ increasingly open to exploitation is reinforced. However this …
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Gendered boomtown impacts: a social service perspective on experiences of women in resource extraction communities
The natural resource industry is dynamic, unpredictable, and unconventional. Past research on this industry has examined ‘boomtown impacts’ such has challenges to community cohesion, infrastructure issues, and crime, but few have examined the gendered impacts of the resource industry. Therefore, …
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Photography and the Extractive Gaze: Visual culture and natural resource extraction on the Canadian Shield, 1900-1930
… circulated to promote and occasionally challenge resource extraction. Taking as its case study the Timiskaming region on the Precambrian shield, I explore how photography chronicled the transformation of territory under extractive capitalism as photographs invited viewers to envision new futures, …
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Ethical investment and financial sustainability among resource extraction companies in South Africa : the moderating role of disclosure quality
Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Accounting, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2025.
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Natural Resource Economic Theory: An Application to Illinois Coal
The major economic theories of natural resource extraction are reviewed critically. The current classical theories are shown to be in error. Appropriate classical and neoclassical models of resource extraction are developed and applied using Illinois coal mining data. The models are tested to …
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Beyond Topography: Remapping Appalachia
… interventions that operate at our sites of resource extraction. We design buildings for a ~100-year lifespan, but extraction marks the landscape for millennia. Architects, as we’re trained, are ill-equipped to address the wide-reaching impacts of extraction, but we do have a number of tools …
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Extracting Intelligence and (In)security: Corporate-state Information-sharing Practices and the Construction of Narratives of Indigenous Dissent
… are constituted by investigating natural resource extraction corporations and Canadian intelligence and national security agencies joint participation in information-sharing practices. I consider a specific set of “information-sharing practices” otherwise understood as acts or activities …
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Competing Sovereignties: Corporate Social Responsibility, Oil Extraction, and Indigenous Subjectivity in Ecuador
… as institutions that can facilitate ongoing resource extraction, and particular technologies of rule that serve to discipline indigenous peoples at the point of extraction. I conducted an institutional ethnography to examine the social relationships produced through CSR programs, and contend …
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Minerals policy and taxation in the new South Africa : an analysis of proposed ANC policy
… chapter two will review the theory of resource extraction, exploration and taxation, and describe a few of the important results in this field of study, while chapter three will describe some real world experiences with mineral tax systems.
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Essays on Economic Aspects of Corruption
… the last part, an exercise which uses a natural resource extraction model to theoretically examine corrupt privatization is presented. Corrupt officials have been known to use their authority to manipulate the privatization process in return for private benefits. The optimal time path of …
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Small scale, community based economic development in the Canadian Arctic
… often associated only with large, non-renewable resource extraction projects. Other alternative development projects such as the co-operatives provide development on a scale that a community itself can manage and control. The "boom and bust" cycle of mega project development has been of little …
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Spatial structure and informational asymmetry in the economics of multiple stock renewable resources
The open-access inefficiencies of renewable resources are heightened, and their regulation complicated, by heterogeneous stock composition, non-uniform spatial distribution, and informational asymmetries between regulators and those involved in resource extraction. These issues continue to provide …
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The danger of the single legal story: the effects of international human rights legalization on land issues in Africa
… rights of rural communities in the context of resource extraction within the African landscape. The objective is to render visible the constraints imposed by international human rights law on the capacity of international human rights organizations to advocate for the interests of African …
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Petroleum resources, linkages and development: the case of Oman
After four decades of oil resource utilization, Oman is faced with the challenge of reducing its dependency on oil income and adjusting to becoming a non-oil economy within twenty years. The overall objective of this thesis is to contribute to the discussion of how this transformation can take …
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Harvesting Encounter: An Interpretive Research Center at Pack Forest
… on the sustainable qualities of a renewable resource, wood has become divorced from timber. Harvesting Encounter proposes an interpretive research center at the University of Washington's Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest, where a recreational landscape merges with a working …
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Icy futures : carving the northern sea route
… the affordances and risks posed to shipping and resource extraction activities by melting Arctic sea-ice, as sections of the maritime Arctic become increasingly integrated into global circuits. The research examines actual and potential developments surrounding the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the …
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