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The Future of Arid Lands-Revisited
The Future of Arid Lands, edited by Gilbert White and published in 1956, comprised papers delivered at the "International Arid Lands Meetings" held in New Mexico in 1955. At these meetings, experts considered the major issues then confronting the world’s arid lands and developed a research agenda to address these issues. This book reexamines this earlier work and explores changes in the science and management of arid lands over the past 50 years within their historical contexts.
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The Story of Mining in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a country rich in natural resources. This relatively small country of only 29, 925 square miles with a population of approx 4.5 million people is mostly underlain by an Achaean terrain that holds enormous exploitation potential. The Story of Mining started in early 20th Century with Diamonds, Gold, Iron Ore, Bauxite and Rutile being mined to varying degrees over the years. Following the civil war from 1991 to 2002 the country is now poised for further exploitation, including the discovery of Oil. How could Sierra Leone continue to be regarded as one of the poorest countries in the World? If she is, who benefits from all this wealth that has been taken by others, for so long? More importantly, when are its people going to start deriving the full benefits of the natural wealth of this beautiful country? This story is a measured attempt to raise mining awareness, in hope!
African Dinosaurs Unearthed
From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted skeleton of this giant, Brachiosaurus, was the largest skeleton of a land animal on exhibit in the world. The dinosaur and other animal fossils found at Tendaguru form one of the cornerstones of our understanding of life in the Mesozoic era. Visited sporadically during the '30s and '40s, Tendaguru again became the site of scientific interest late in the 20th century. African Dinosaurs Unearthed tells the story of driven scientific adventurers working under difficult conditions and often paying the price with their health—and sometimes with their lives. Set against the background of a troubled century, the book reveals how scientific endeavors were carried on through war and political turmoil, and continue into the present day.
Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining
In Culture and Conflicts in Sierra Leone Mining: Strangers, Aliens, Spirits, the author uses Sierra Leone as a case study to contribute to the debates on the causes and nature of mineral resource conflicts in Africa. Unlike many works that focus on the political economy and political ecology of large-scale diamond mining conflicts, this book’s goal is to add to the limited literature on the persistent discord in mining areas. In so doing, the book integrates cultural conflict dimensions in analyzing the mineral commodity chain, primarily the clash between the centuries-old customary landlord-stranger land governance institution and state mining laws with colonial vestiges. It shows that these cultural conflicts challenge the effective development of the mining sector, including establishing artisanal mining as a viable complementary livelihood to farming for rural populations.
Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa
Some volumes accompanied by Annexure.
