Frail modernities: Latin American infrastructures between repair and ruination

2019/01/01 by Raquel Velho, Sebastián Ureta · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Water Governance and Infrastructure

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/25729861.2019.1678920

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Abstract

The collapse of a tailings dam at the Samarco Mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on November 5th 2015 suddenly released around 62 million cubic meters of semi-liquid mining waste. The subs...

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