Managing industrial world heritage sites : preservation, presentation and sustainability

This thesis uses case study methodology to explore how the concept of sustainable development is being applied at industrial World Heritage sites. The thesis proposes a model of sustainable heritage management that is relevant to industrial heritage sites, as well as to other complex heritage sites, including historic urban landscapes.

Contrived Dereliction: Employing an aesthetic of decay at mining heritage sites

Conventional descriptions place conservation activities between the two poles of active restorative intervention and passive abandonment. This paper proposes that site stewards at mining heritage sites often follow presentation strategies that sit outside this neat dualism. Drawing on material presented in the form of three case studies, this paper identifies the actions these strategies entail and considers the results in terms of an aesthetic of decay. To consolidate the argument, a new overarching term is introduced to describe this strategy: contrived dereliction, in order to foreground its essential features. The paper then outlines the advantages, limitations and requirements of contrived dereliction as a heritage management and presentation practice.

As Minas Barrojeiras das Alcanadas: um estudo para a sua valorização patrimonial

O património industrial mineiro assume cada vez mais, uma importância crescente em Portugal. As estruturas abandonadas deste período industrial que tanto marcou o nosso país estão a ser cada vez mais desprotegidas, sofrendo uma degradação crescente à medida que o tempo passa. É, portanto, relevante recuperá-las e elaborar projetos de valorização que visem dinamizar essas áreas preservando a memória coletiva. É neste panorama que se inserem as Minas das Barrojeiras das Alcanadas, concelho da Batalha. Pertencentes ao Couto Mineiro do Lena, laborando entre 1854 e 1956, estas minas foram abandonadas e entretanto despidas das estruturas que a compunham. Tendo isto em conta, foi proposta a realização de um circuito de valorização que complementa a exposição presente no MCCB, e que irá dinamizar aquele local; ABSTRACT: The industrial mining heritage, has nowadays an increasing importance in Portugal. The abandoned structures of this industrial time that defined so intensely our country are being forsaken more and more, suffering a growing degradation though out the time. Is therefore imperative to recover them and produce valuation projects that aim on enhancing the sites. Is in this perspective that the Minas of Barrojeiras of Alcanadas (in Batalha) are inserted. Belonging in the Couto Mineiro do Lena, and being active from 1854 till 1956, these mines were forsaken and later on, stripped from the structures that followed the activities of exploring the mineral. With this in mind, was proposed a valorization circuit that will enhance the location of the mine´s and will be a complement to the exhibition in Batalha´s MCCB.

The importance and significance of heritage conservation of ex-tin mining landscape in Perak, the Abode of Grace

The thematic history of tin mining in Perak reveals the evolution of tin production, technology, infrastructure, transportation, social and the state economic development. The mining expansion that spread from Larut district to Kinta at the end of nineteenth century has distinctively impact on it's landscape. The surviving evidences that spread over Kinta demonstrates the importance and significance of conservation of ex-tin mining places. These surviving evidences are testimony of the past history and legacy for the present and future generations.

Recalling yesterday, predicting tomorrow : revisit South Australia conservation practice for heritage mining places, a practical guide for Malaysia

Mining started in South Australia in the early 1840s with the discovery of silver-lead ore at Glen Osmond in 1841 and later copper in Kapunda in 1842 and Burra in 1845; all these discoveries greatly contributed to South Australia's economic development. South Australia entered the mining era at the time when the Cornish engine was at the peak of its development, and the horizontal engine was beginning its rise in popularity. These South Australian historic mining sites contain extensive extant evidence of technology, innovation and human endeavours that previously went into the mining activity. This paper seeks to critically review items for inclusion on the South Australian State Heritage Register, the character of mining heritage places, enforcement by legislation, interpretation of the heritage assessment and how these practices could guide Malaysia in recognizing industrial heritage as a significant part of its cultural heritage that needs to be conserved, restored and managed as a legacy for present and future generations.

The resource boom's underbelly : criminological impacts of mining development

Australia is currently in the midst of a major resources boom. Resultant growing demands for labour in regional and remote areas have accelerated the recruitment of non resident workers, mostly contractors, who work extended block rosters of 12-hour shifts and are accommodated in work camps, often adjacent to established mining towns. Serious social impacts of these practices, including violence and crime, have generally escaped industry, government and academic scrutiny. This paper highlights some of these impacts on affected regional communities and workers and argues that post-industrial mining regimes serve to mask and privatize these harms and risks, shifting them on to workers, families and communities.

Configurations of Gender, Class and Rurality in Resource Affected Rural Australia

Historically, class has been a key concern in studies of resource affected communities (e.g., Williamson 1982, Warwick and Littlejohn 1992). While work continues, particularly in Britain, today it reflects the rationalization of the British mining sector, and thus focuses largely on mining heritage (e.g., Strangleman et al. 1999, Dicks 2008). In contrast, this chapter examines class relations as manifest in a contemporary setting in rural Australia. This site, the Ravensthorpe Shire in the south west of Western Australia, relied largely on agriculture until 2004 when BHP Billiton commenced construction of a nickel mine in the area. This affected the entire Shire as well as the two rural communities of Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun. The mine, which was officially opened in June 2008, is one of a large number of new mineral and energy developments being established in non metropolitan areas of the country as high international demand for resources fuels significant growth in the sector. In a single six month period in 2009, for example, 15 major minerals and energy projects were completed across the nation and a further 74 projects were at advanced stages (Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics 2009). A number of these were, as was the case in Ravensthorpe, in what had been traditionally agricultural communities.

[B_Zalla_Bolunburu] Documentación Geométrica de la Ferrería Bolunburu (Zalla, Bizkaia)

[ES] El conjunto de dos edificios divididos en varias estancias, un canal de captación de aguas y un puente, todo ello arruinado. Los muros aún se mantienen en pie aunque ya no quedan restos de los tejados ni del mobiliario, maquinaria o decoración.

Inventário das minas de água da área do Mosteiro de Tibães: proposta preliminar de hidrogeo‐itinerários

O Mosteiro de São Martinho de Tibães localiza‐se próximo de Braga (Norte de Portugal) e foi a Casa‐mãe da Ordem Beneditina em Portugal. Este Mosteiro foi abastecido durante séculos por numerosas minas de água, a maioria das quais se encontra actualmente abandonada. Este trabalho enfatiza a importância da combinação de diferentes matérias científicas nos processos de recuperação do património mineiro abandonado, bem como de sítios geo‐arqueológicos de relevância cultural, como um exemplo do processo transformador de uma organização, no sentido de promover um segundo ciclo de vida. O objectivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma abordagem metodológica, sob o ponto de vista da geoconservação e da geodiversidade. Subsequentemente, acções específicas serão desenvolvidas para reabilitar determinadas área, com o intuito de facilitar a sua inclusão em hidrogeo‐itinerários classificados. Esta perspectiva reflecte uma importante medida para a sustentabilidade, quer para o promotor quer para o meio ambiente envolvente.

Constructions et représentation de la classe ouvrière du Nord du Québec à Fermont

À l'ère de la mondialisation, où la matrice capitaliste continue de dominer, la classification dans les groupes se définit encore en termes de classes, de genres et d'ethnicité. Les transformations causées par la mondialisation actuelle entraînent de nouveaux modes de production, qui à leur tour transforment les modes de définition et de régulation des populations. Le projet d'exploitation du Nord du Québec est un phénomène relativement récent; or, le processus de construction d'une classe sociale n'est pas un phénomène nouveau. La formation des classes sociales étant toujours en évolution, il semble aujourd'hui pertinent de réexaminer les facteurs économiques, sociologiques et historiques des caractéristiques théoriques nécessaires à la construction et à la représentation d'une classe sociale dont l'existence est liée à l'exploitation accrue des richesses naturelles, la classe ouvrière du Nord du Québec.

 À Fermont, dans le Nord du Québec, les compagnies minières emploient depuis 2011 une grande quantité de travailleurs québécois provenant de l'extérieur de la région, des travailleurs permanents non- résidents. Ainsi, la structure sociale construite sur la force de travailleurs locaux est aux prises avec de nouvelles dynamiques de mobilité sociale géographique. Au travail, les femmes et les autochtones sont aussi affectés par les relations des systèmes de pouvoir de la vie quotidienne, car les emplois de l'industrie minière et du domaine de la construction sont socialement et historiquement fondés sur des capitaux sociaux et culturels (blanc et homme). La classe ouvrière du Nord du Québec est redéfinit par son rapport à la migration géographique des travailleurs permanents non- résidents, par ses relations avec les minorités de genre et les minorités autochtones, relations qui engendrent une organisation sociale complexe et hétérogène.

A decade of light and shadow: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s

Includes bibliography

Caracterização mineralógica e química das fontes de poeira e sua influência na atmosfera da região do polo cerâmico de Santa Gertrudes (SP)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Madrid necesita un Museo de la Piedra

Madrid has a long and vast quarring tradition and this is why we think a Stone Museum is needed. At the moment, only have a few monuments to the stone's cutter are erected and we only have been able to recover only some traditions. The european experience in this field, wich is present in this paper, explains the necessity and significance of organizing something alike in Madrid. The study of this patrimony has been carried out inside the wider frame of the Mining Heritage, a project promoved by Madrid Comunity.

Molinos mineros de tradición andina

El presente trabajo contiene aportes para la clasificación tipológica de los molinos mineros utilizados en los Andes precolombinos. Se apoya en las descripciones que nos han legado los arqueólogos, ingenieros de minas, cronistas españoles, etc., con referencias a evidencias arqueológicas y etnográficas presentes en Cobres, Incahuasi, Rosario de Coyahuaima, Capillitas, Andalgalá y Tacuil (Argentina); Zapar (Chile); Porco y Potosí (Bolivia); así como en Santiago de Tulpo (Perú), etc. Es necesario destacar que la temática abordada contribuye al conocimiento de los molinos mineros y constituye un aspecto apenas divulgado del patrimonio minero andino. ABSTRACT This paper contains contributions on the typological classification of the Pre-Columbian Andean mining mills. It is based on the descriptions of archaeologists, mining engineers, Spanish chroniclers, etc., with references to archaeological and ethnographic evidences present in Cobres, Incahuasi, Rosario de Coyahuaima, Capillitas, Andalgalá and Tacuil (Argentina); Zapar (Chile); Porco and Potosi (Bolivia); as well as in Santiago de Tulpo (Peru), etc. It is necessary to emphasize that the topics treated contribute to the knowledge of the mining mills and constitutes a non well known aspect of the Andean mining heritage.