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]).
Local Communities and the Mining Industry: Economic Potential and Social and Environmental Responsibilities
1st Edition
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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 ...
Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods: Rights, Revenues, and Resistance
1st Edition
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By Thierry Rodon, Sophie Thériault, Arn Keeling, Séverine Bouard, Andrew Taylor
August 22, 2024
This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various postcolonial contexts. Combining comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the contributors to this volume shine a light on how the mining industry might adapt its practices to the ...
Andean States and the Resource Curse: Institutional Change in Extractive Economies
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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 ...
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance
1st Edition
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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 ...
Governance in the Extractive Industries: Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori Leonard, Siba N. Grovogui
August 08, 2019
Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are ...
Social Terrains of Mine Closure in the Philippines
1st Edition
By Minerva Chaloping March
June 12, 2019
The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established. Mine closure ...
African Artisanal Mining from the Inside Out: Access, norms and power in Congo’s gold sector
1st Edition
By Sara Geenen
March 21, 2019
Artisanal mining is commonly associated with violent conflict, rampant corruption and desperate poverty. Yet millions of people across Sub Sahara Africa depend on it. Many of them are living in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), home to important mineral reserves, but also to a plethora of...