Product Description: As societies continue to grow and develop, the demand for energy has increased worldwide. In China, coal is still one of the principal energy resources and it is expected that more coal mining projects are needed in the future. As mining operations continue to increase their production rates and discover more ore reserves, mine safety issues have become more urgent...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this volume is to offer an authoritative overview of the positive relationship between faith and reason, the latter understood as different mode of philosophy. It will also show that despite important variations and differences, the manner in which Christan faith is able to interact with other intellectual disciplines is grounded in theology and is required by theology...read more

In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real Disaster Above Ground tells the story of the fire and the tragic failure of all efforts to counter it. This study of the Centralia fire represents the most thorough canvass of the documentary materials and the community that has appeared. The authors report on the futile efforts of residents to reach a common understanding of an underground threat that was not readily visible and invited multiple interpretations. They trace the hazard management strategies of government agencies that, ironically, all too often created additional threats to the welfare of Centralians. They report on the birth and demise of community organizations, each with its own solution to the problem and its diehard partisans. The final solution, now being put into effect, is to abandon the town and relocate its people.Centralia's environmental disaster, the authors argue, is not a local or isolated phenomenon. It warns of the danger lurking in our own technology when safeguards fail and disaster management policy is not in place to respond to failure, as the examples of Chernobyl and Bhopal have clearly demonstrated.The lessons in this study of the fate of a small town in Pennsylvania are indeed sobering. They should be pondered by a variety of social scientists and planners, by all those dealing with the behavior of people under stress and those responsible for the welfare of the public.

Product Description: On March 9, 1976, a violent explosion, fueled by high concentrations of methane gas and coal dust, ripped through the Scotia mine in the heart of Eastern Kentucky coal country. The blast killed fifteen miners who were working nearly three and a half miles underground; two days later, a second explosion took the lives of eleven rescue workers...read more

La vida en la ciudad puede estar llena de peligros que este libro enseña a sortear. Desde cómo protegerse de un robo o una agresión hasta cómo prevenir ataques, poner a salvo el hogar o afrontar una catástrofe natural.

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More than eighty vivid photographs demonstrate how America's entry into the nuclear age has endangered Native American uranium mine workers who have unwittingly exposed themselves to extremely dangerous levels of radiation. 15,000 first printing. Tour. IP.

Product Description: This book has been written as a reference and text for engineers, researchers, teachers and students who have an interest in the planning and control of the environment in underground openings. While directed primarily to underground mining operations, the design procedures are also applicable to other complex developments of subsurface space such as nuclear waste repositories, commercial accommodation or vehicular networks...read more

Product Description: Mine Disasters and Mine Rescues provides a fairly comprehensive treatment of the subject of mine disasters and mine rescue. It draws on the author s nearly thirty years of teaching and research experience and his abiding interest in mine safety, It deals with the hazards constantly posed by fires, explosions, coal and gas outbursts and inundations in mines...read more

Product Description: This book is about "the dreadful month" in coal mining history in the U.S. In December 1907, 702 miners were "officially" killed from explosions. "Unofficially" at least half more of that number died in the accidents, a fact that was supposedly repressed by company and government officials...read more