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Academic Lectures / Courses
Eco-cidal Mining: discussion of sustainable mining in China
Department / Organization: HASS / Hennebach
Win Myo Thu will discuss Issues of sourcing sustainable metal, ecocidal mining for China, and our future renewable world!
https://mines.zoom.us/j/7467043641
Social Scientist Win Myo Thu presents: “Issue of sourcing sustainable metal: A case study of ecocidal mining for China and the renewable world.” I will be talking about the social and environmental impacts of rare earth mining along Sino-Myanmar border where they are a major source of supplying dysprosium and terbium to global market.
Win Myo Thu is a development practitioner with over 30 years of extensive experience in environmental conservation and rural development. He professionally contributed to several policy developments, including the National Communication Report on climate change, the National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan (NBSAP), the National Environmental Performance Assessment, the National Rural Development Strategic Framework for poverty reduction, and the Myanmar Sustainable Development Plan (MSDP). In addition to these contributions, he has been actively advocating for the cancellation of hydropower mega-dams, promoting renewable energy, improving land tenure security of the poor and indigenous people, and strengthening a common platform for civic empowerment in natural resource governance. He directs a local environmental organization, the Association of Advancing Life and Regenerating Motherland (ALARM). After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, he moved to Oxford University, UK, and am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Christ Church College and the Earth Science Department.