bauxite extraction

• The Corporate Social Responsibility of Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: A Systems Perspective

Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mining, and Sustainable Development Taking Harper's and the World Bank's positions together as representative of the current dominant view of the role of foreign direct investment in mining in Latin America, we must ask under what conditions mining activity might contribute to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Harper points to the world-class corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of Canadian mining companies, along with the Canadian government's National Roundtable report on CSR and the Extractive Sector in Developing Nations (Interview, 2007) and the World Bank's Extractive Industries Review (EIR) points to the enabling conditions of "pro-poor public and corporate governance," "effective social and envir...

... reliance on natural resource extraction to fuel economic growth and stability. It is not s... of iron ore, and a 26 percent share of bauxite, a 20 percent share of zinc, and a 16 percent shar...

• Canadian Foreign Policy
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 3, October 2008

• The state and the northern social economy: research prospects.

... depend upon natural resource extraction and services to government and industry; (3) publi... to produce electric power to refine bauxite into aluminum, the wells that extract oil and gas,...

• Northern Review
• Nbr. 2009, March 2009

• Embodied energy: we can't measure the impact of solid waste unless we study the energy we throw away.

... less energy because primary resource extraction is avoided. If a new product is reused, then even ... cans means avoiding limestone, salt and bauxite mining; it also eliminates the need for caustic so...

• Alternatives Journal
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 1, January 2006