Essays about: "extractive industry"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words extractive industry.

  1. 1. Spår i jorden : en studie av ett extraktionslandskap

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Sebastian Hahn; [2023]
    Keywords : extraktionslandskap; nymaterialism; landskapshistoria; mosse; torv; torvtäkt; postindustriellt landskap; spårande; rumslighet;

    Abstract : Detta examensarbete utforskar torvtäkten som landsakap. Torvindustrin har en långtgående historia i Sverige, och de utdikade torvmossarna utgör några av de största landskapssåren i landet. Under påtryckningar från politik och samhälle har industrin minskat kraftigt, och många torvtäkter hotas nu av nedläggning. READ MORE

  3. 2. Post-Extraction Mine-Scape. Alternate Production and Recreation Protocol for Slite.

    University essay from KTH/Stadsbyggnad

    Author : Saba Farheen Ahmed; [2023]
    Keywords : Extraction; Post-Industrial Urbanism; Landscape Regeneration; Microalgae Production; Gotland;

    Abstract : Quarrying of limestone on the Swedish island of Gotland dates all the way back to the 5th century but saw the rise of its modern form during the early 20th century, with the establishment of Cementa AB at Slite, which since then has developed as an industrial town. Cementa has been progressively mining limestone in three large open pit quarries in Slite. READ MORE

  4. 3. Indigeneity and Industry at Bovanenkovo- Cooperation? Confrontation? Justice?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Evan Goss; [2022]
    Keywords : Nenets; Bovanenkovo; energy justice; Russian gas industry; indigenous peoples; reindeer pastoralism; Yamal.;

    Abstract : The Nenets, an indigenous peoples in the North of Russia, are increasingly being affected by the gas industry. The increasing prioritisation of extractive industries, the status of the Arctic as a bellwether and the threatened situation of indigenous people in Russia has drawn greater attention to this field of study. READ MORE

  5. 4. What are the Underlying Factors for the Poor Implementation of the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Principle in Australia, Canada, and the United States? : A Qualitative Comparative Study

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Isra Bashir Ahmed; [2022]
    Keywords : Settler-Colonialism; FPIC Extractive Industry; Stakeholder approach; Power Asymmetries; Logic of Elimination; Doctrine of Discovery; Terra Nullius; Global Capitalism; Dakota Access Pipeline; Canadian Land Claims; Native Title Act; John v M’intosh; FPIC CSR.;

    Abstract : It has been 15 years since the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recognized the Free, Prior and Informed consent Principle, yet it has not been able to function to its fullest potential. This Thesis aims to carry out a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the following three countries of Australia, Canada, and the United States. READ MORE

  6. 5. Triptych of ruderal architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Erik Lokrantz; [2021]
    Keywords : nonhuman actors; ownership; property; artistic research; speculative fabulation; science fiction; ruin; ruderal; deterritorialization; reterritorialization; haraway; bennet; stengers; le guin;

    Abstract : The Ruderal Triptych is a narrative, fictional, artistic, research project. It centers itself on questions of ownership as a legal and physical machinery, that works within global extractive economies. I want to question what we are really producing when we produce architecture. READ MORE