Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to the extractive industries and sustainable development, integrating perspectives from both social and natural sciences. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries: Rights, Processes, and Tensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu, Mark Stoddart
October 20, 2025
This volume examines how communities, companies, and governments contest and contribute to the evolution of norms, rules and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries. In recent years international organizations, governments and companies around ...
Sustainable Mining Governance: Social, Environmental and Political Discussions
1st Edition
Edited
By Jose Dominguez-Gomez, André Xavier, Rocio Moreno
October 13, 2025
This volume provides a transdisciplinary analysis of the political, social and environmental aspects of governance and its implementation in the mining sector. In a world profoundly shaped by the energy transition and the urgency of climate change, mining faces a dual challenge. On one hand, it is ...
Extractive Industry Indigenisation in Zimbabwe: Neoextractivism, Resource Nationalism and Uneven Development
1st Edition
By Kennedy Manduna
September 25, 2025
This book explains how and why Zimbabwe’s extractive industry indigenisation over-promised its benefits yet under-delivered upon implementation. This book traces the history of uneven development in Zimbabwe from the initial days of colonialism to the present, using the extractive industry as the ...
Future Transitions in the Mining Industry: Challenges, Controversies and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Tuija Mononen, Lasse Peltonen
September 18, 2025
This volume focuses on mining and the challenges for this industry as it transitions and evolves as the demand for products and responsible and sustainable mining ever increases. Mining is a prerequisite for modern society, yet the industry is often criticized for having many negative environmental...
Tree Plantation Extractivism in Chile: Territories, Fundamental Human Needs, and Resistance
1st Edition
By Alejandro Mora-Motta
July 31, 2025
This book examines how extractivism transforms territories and affects the well-being of rural people, drawing on in-depth fieldwork conducted on tree plantations in Chile. The book argues that pine and eucalyptus monoculture plantations in southern Chile are a form of extractivism representing a ...
Lithium Extraction in Chile: Ontological, Ecological and Economic Dimensions
1st Edition
By Daniela Soto-Hernández
July 17, 2025
This book explores lithium extraction in Chile as part of the global energy transition, unravelling the ontological, ecological, and economic dimensions behind this type of extractivism. A transition away from fossil fuels is urgent in the context of climate change and one of the main challenges so...
Local Responses to Mine Closure in South Africa: Dependencies and Social Disruption
1st Edition
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By Sethulego Matebesi, Lochner Marais, Verna Nel
June 27, 2025
This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption. Mine closure presents a major challenge to the mining industry and government policymakers globally, but particularly in the Global South. South Africa is experiencing notable ...
Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South: Regional Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, Matthew Himley, David Brereton
May 06, 2025
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the ...
Indigenous Responses to Mining in Post-Conflict Colombia: Violence, Repression and Peaceful Resistance
1st Edition
By Diana Carolina Arbeláez Ruiz
December 18, 2024
This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people of North Cauca during the most recent Colombian post-agreement transition. Amid an armed conflict that has disproportionally affected and targeted the ...
The Shaping of Greenland’s Resource Spaces: Environment, Territory, Geo-Security
1st Edition
By Mark Nuttall
December 18, 2024
The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland’s society, environment, and resource spaces. It discusses how Greenland’s resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface environments has been crucial for matters of ...
Mining and Development in Sierra Leone: Negotiating Change and Navigating Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Robert Jan Pijpers
October 30, 2024
Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the processes of development and change that mark resource extraction ...
The Social Impacts of Mine Closure in South Africa: Housing Policy and Place Attachment
1st Edition
By Lochner Marais
October 08, 2024
This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa, using concepts from new institutional economics and evolutionary governance theory. Mine closures present a major challenge to the mining industry and governments, with this being...