Geoethics Aotearoa New Zealand Seminar Series
Critical Minerals and Critical Perspectives: Political Ecologies of Mining in Aotearoa and the USA
In October we're excited to have Glenn Banks, Massey University and Noel Vineyard, University of Nevada, Reno presenting on Critical Minerals and Critical Perspectives: Political Ecologies of Mining in Aotearoa and the USA.
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This student-run series explores themes under the banner of geoethics. We will hear from speakers from a range of backgrounds, and we invite everyone interested in the intersection of geoscience and society to join us for six different geoethical discussions.
All previous Geoethics sessions can be found on the GeoScience NZ You Tube channel
About the speakers
Glenn Banks is a a professor of geography at Massey University, Glenn Banks has worked as a researcher on and consultant to the mining industry in the Pacific for more than 30 years. This includes work at some of the world’s largest copper and gold mines in PNG and Indonesia, visits to nickel mines in New Caledonia, 18 months leading the development of a PNG national human development report for UNDP that focused on turning their mineral resource into more sustainable forms of human development, advice to governments in Fiji and the Solomon Islands, and a stint on a short-lived advisory group to OceanaGold, New Zealand’s largest gold producer.
Noel Vineyard is a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Nevada – Reno, in the United States. His current work focuses on the changing human relationship to water and place resultant from new lithium mining projects being developed in the McDermitt Caldera region in Nevada and Oregon. Trained as a human-environment geographer, his work draws together thinking from science & technology studies, humanistic geographies, political ecology and legal studies to wrestle with the hydro-social, ecological and environmental justice challenges posed by the planetary transition away from fossil fuels.