The Extractive Industries

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Activities of TNCs in extractive industries in Asia and the Pacific: Implications for development1*

This article provides an overview of development outcomes from the activities of transnational corporations (TNCs) in extractive industries. Drawing on the author’s experience of working as a geographer around the mines in Papua New Guinea and the global literature on the subject, the economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts of mining and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific regi...

What Is the Relationship of Medical Humanitarian Organisations with Mining and Other Extractive Industries?

Philippe Calain discusses the health and environmental hazards of extractive industries like mining and explores the tensions that arise when medical humanitarian organizations are called to intervene in emergencies involving the extractive sector.

Assessing eco environmental effects of mining extractive industries on the sustainability of rural areas Case: villages surrounding Zanjan cement factory

Introduction Rural industrialization has been greatly discussed by researchers in recent studies of rural planning and development. It is due to its positive effects of economic, social and infrastructural factors. Moreover, researches are looking for ways to analyzed approaches to reduce harmful environmental impacts of industrial projects, as destructive life factors of geographical territ...

Language Independent Extractive Summarization

We demonstrate TextRank – a system for unsupervised extractive summarization that relies on the application of iterative graphbased ranking algorithms to graphs encoding the cohesive structure of a text. An important characteristic of the system is that it does not rely on any language-specific knowledge resources or any manually constructed training data, and thus it is highly portable to new ...