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Further reading
For the geographer the last decade and more has witnessed a dearth of texts relating to the
minerals of the UK. One needs to look back more than twenty years to find a comprehensive
review of earth resources in a context which largely relates to this chap, Mineral Resources
of Britain—a Study in Exploration and Planning (London, Hutchinson, 1975). Access to a
library copy does, however, provide a detailed background to the key post-war issues—
those of a strongly rising demand, especially for construction materials; a rapid expansion
in quarry size and output made possible by the development of new.
These themes are also dealt with in a contemporary context in J.Blunden and A.Reddish,
Energy, Resources and Environment (London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996), but the chapters
in question take a world-view and lay emphasis on the interface between minerals extraction
and processing and the environment. A companion volume from the same publisher edited
by P.Sarre and J.Blunden, Environment, Population and Development (1996) offers a brief
summary of the minerals industry and its impact on rural Britain in the chapter ‘Competing
demands in the countryside’.
Another recent world-view, Mining the Earth by J.E.Young (Washington, DC, World
Watch Institute, Washington, DC, 1992) also strikes a strong environmental note, and,
although somewhat polemical in style, usefully acknowledges the importance of demand
management in the quest to limit the ecological damage resulting from mining. An edited