'This is a wonderful book - and I can guarantee you will be both better informed and more inspired once you've read it. Kiran Pereira shares with us a wealth of potential solutions for innovators and investors, planners and policymakers - as well as for a growing number of dedicated activists.' - Jonathon Porritt CBE, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future

'In Sand Stories, Kiran Pereira, tells us why sand mining is so neglected as a critical sustainability issue and what we need to do about it. The book is well researched, skilfully written and beautifully illustrated. It will serve as an informative guide to curious sustainability practitioners, researchers and advocates alike.' - Prof. Wayne Visser, author of Sustainable Frontiers

'What's in a grain of sand? The whole world, it turns out. This is a book in the grand tradition of worldly and captivating surveys of everyday materials that illuminate how humanity exploits our planet, for good and ill.' - Fred Pearce, author of When the Rivers Run Dry: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century