437 research outputs found
"Australia's Decision": Uranium Mining and Aboriginal Communities Then and Now
International audienceSince the 1970s, a progressive acknowledgement of Indigenous peoples' rights has developed in Australia, focusing on land rights as a key to empowerment. This has come to redefine the uneasy relations between Indigenous communities, governments and energy resource developers, the latter having more often than not encroached on Aboriginal land and ignored Aboriginal concerns for the sake of direct economic rewards. A case in point is that of uranium mining which, well after the Second World War, was still used for military purposes within Australia, leaving many Aboriginal communities to struggle with devastating environmental and health consequences. Looking at Australia's 1977 decision to proceed with uranium mining for peaceful purposes at Ranger (Northern Territory), and comparing it with the more recent government approval of the Olympic Dam (South Australia) expansion project, this article will attempt to assess how Indigenous issues have been taken into account in uranium mining development projects then and now. It will focus more particularly on the agreements arrived at between the governments, the mining companies and the Aboriginal communities themselves, the outcomes of these agreements, as well as the different factors that may have had an impact on how Indigenous issues have been taken into account within uranium mining development projects throughout the years
"Australia's Decision": Uranium Mining and Aboriginal Communities Then and Now
International audienceSince the 1970s, a progressive acknowledgement of Indigenous peoples' rights has developed in Australia, focusing on land rights as a key to empowerment. This has come to redefine the uneasy relations between Indigenous communities, governments and energy resource developers, the latter having more often than not encroached on Aboriginal land and ignored Aboriginal concerns for the sake of direct economic rewards. A case in point is that of uranium mining which, well after the Second World War, was still used for military purposes within Australia, leaving many Aboriginal communities to struggle with devastating environmental and health consequences. Looking at Australia's 1977 decision to proceed with uranium mining for peaceful purposes at Ranger (Northern Territory), and comparing it with the more recent government approval of the Olympic Dam (South Australia) expansion project, this article will attempt to assess how Indigenous issues have been taken into account in uranium mining development projects then and now. It will focus more particularly on the agreements arrived at between the governments, the mining companies and the Aboriginal communities themselves, the outcomes of these agreements, as well as the different factors that may have had an impact on how Indigenous issues have been taken into account within uranium mining development projects throughout the years
The Contribution to the Procedure of Capacity Determination at Unsignalized Priority-controlled Intersections
The problem of minor vehicles crossing or merging into themajor stream at unsignalized priority-controlled intersections iswell-known. Numerous solutions involve various assumptionsconcerning the major headway distributions, number of majorlanes, critical gap distributions, etc. Such cases can be dividedinto two main groups: intersections with two streams (one majorand one minor stream) and intersections with more thantwo streams (more than one major stream and one minorstream). At roundabouts, also at single-lane roundabouts,there are similar problems like the ones at other unsignalizedpriority-controlled intersections. A vehicle at the roundaboutapproach can only cross the pedestrian crossing when a sufficienttime-gap between two pedestrians (or cyclists) is provided.A vehicle at the roundabout entries can only merge into the majorstream when a sufficient gap between the two vehicles in themajor stream is provided. Because of that, single-lane roundaboutscan also be treated as unsignalized intersections withtwo major lanes: the first one in its circulatory roadway and thesecond one on the pedestrian crossing
Continuous Generation of Quantum Light from a Single Ground-State Atom in an Optical Cavity
We show an optical wave-mixing scheme that generates quantum light by means
of a single three-level atom. The atom couples to an optical cavity and two
laser fields that together drive a cycling current within the atom. Weak
driving in combination with strong atom-cavity coupling induces transitions
between the dark states of the system, accompanied by single-photon emission
and suppression of atomic excitation by quantum interference. For strong
driving, the system can generate coherent or Schr\"odinger cat-like fields with
frequencies distinct from those of the applied lasers.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Two-Photon Blockade in an Atom-Driven Cavity QED System
Photon blockade is a dynamical quantum-nonlinear effect that occurs in driven
systems with an anharmonic excitation ladder. For a single atom strongly
coupled to an optical cavity, we show that driving the atom gives a decisively
larger optical nonlinearity than driving the cavity. This enhances
single-photon blockade and allows for the implementation of two-photon blockade
where the absorption of two photons suppresses the absorption of further
photons. As a signature, we report on three-photon antibunching with
simultaneous two-photon bunching observed in the light emitted from the cavity.
Our experiment constitutes a significant step towards multi-photon
quantum-nonlinear optics.Comment: paper (6 pages, 5 figures) + supplement (6 pages, 5 figures
Studio di Dinamica Molecolare dell\u2019Adsorbimento di Ciprofloxacina su Nano-Tubi di Carbonio
Cathal Doyle et Jill Cariño, Les Peuples autochtones et les industries extractives. Mettre en œuvre le Consentement, libre, préalable et informé
Sous l’action conjuguée d’une forte demande en matières premières et de l’augmentation du prix de l’énergie et des produits de base de l’industrie, le secteur extractif connaît une croissance exponentielle depuis une dizaine d’années environ, et ce sur tous les continents. Les nouvelles technologies d’extraction rendent possible l’exploitation de gisements à très faible rendement, et conduisent à une multiplication du nombre de mines à ciel ouvert sur des surfaces de plus en plus importantes...
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