Mining Tailings and Dam Failures in Latin American Mining Countries
摘要
Nature and natural resources are inextricably linked to societal progress in Latin America. Nature–society relationshipsNature–society relationships provide both opportunities and problems in creating more fair, egalitarian and sustainable development in this resource-rich region. The region has over half of the world’s tropical forests and various other natural biomes; it has a quarter of the world’s potentially arable land and one-third of the world’s freshwater reservesFreshwater reserves that combinedly contain a wealth of biodiversityBiodiversity.