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]).
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...
Local Communities and the Mining Industry: Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicolas D. Brunet, Sheri Longboat
October 04, 2024
This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia. Mining’s contribution to economic development varies ...
Andean States and the Resource Curse: Institutional Change in Extractive Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerardo Damonte, Bettina Schorr
September 25, 2023
This volume explores institutional change and performance in the resource-rich Andean countries during the last resource boom and in the early post-boom years. The latest global commodity boom has profoundly marked the face of the resource-rich Andean region, significantly contributing to economic...
Oil and National Identity in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Conflicts at the Frontier of Petro-Capitalism
1st Edition
By Alessandro Tinti
September 25, 2023
Examining the interplay between the oil economy and identity politics using the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a case study, this book tells the untold story of how extractivism in the Kurdish autonomous region is interwoven in a mosaic of territorial disputes, simmering ethnic tensions, dynastic rule...
Stakeholders, Sustainable Development Policies and the Coal Mining Industry: Perspectives from Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
1st Edition
By Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak, Oksana A. Marinina, Tatyana V. Ponomarenko
September 25, 2023
This book identifies the impact of internal and external stakeholders on the implementation of sustainable development policies in the coal mining sector in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The book assesses what activities and conditions need to be improved so that sustainable ...
The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan: Political, Social, Environmental and Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Troy Sternberg, Kemel Toktomushev, Byambabaatar Ichinkhorloo
September 25, 2023
This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. As ex-Soviet states, Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan share history, culture and transitions to democracy. Most importantly, both are mineral-rich countries on China’s frontier and epi-centres of resource ...
Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Juha Kotilainen
August 01, 2022
While much of the current research on the extractive industries and their socio-environmental impacts is region specific, Resource Extraction, Space and Resilience: International Perspectives critically explores the current state of the extractive industries sector from a uniquely global ...
The Anthropology of Resource Extraction
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorenzo D'Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers
January 14, 2022
This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical ...
Local Experiences of Mining in Peru: Social and Spatial Transformations in the Andes
1st Edition
By Gerardo Castillo Guzmán
September 30, 2021
This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context. Mining is a major component of economic growth in many resource endowed ...
Regime Stability, Social Insecurity and Bauxite Mining in Guinea: Developments Since the Mid-Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Penda Diallo
June 30, 2021
This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.Guinea is amongst the world’s top producers of bauxite, and the country’s rich mineral ...
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish
May 31, 2021
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and ...