Extracting Innovations: Mining, Energy, and Technological Change in the Digital Age

This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges. The socio-ecological fabric of innovation in the extractive industries is considered through an integrative approach that brings together engineers, natural scientists, and social scientists--academics and practitioners--giving an empirically grounded and realistic evaluation of the innovations in this sector. It synthesizes a series of questions including: