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 Sustainable Development: Current Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Sumit. K. Lodhia
August 14, 2020
Mining is a transformative activity which has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts can be both positive and adverse, enhancing as well as disrupting economies, ecosystems and communities. The extractive industries have been criticised heavily for their adverse impacts ...
Africa's Mineral Fortune: The Science and Politics of Mining and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Saleem H. Ali, Kathryn Sturman, Nina Collins
June 30, 2020
For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to bring technical expertise on modern mining alongside appropriate governance mechanisms for social ...
Energy, Resource Extraction and Society: Impacts and Contested Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Szolucha
June 30, 2020
Energy is central to the fabric of society. This book revisits the classic notions of energy impacts by examining the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects which are often overlooked. Energy impacts are often reduced to the narrow configurations of greenhouse gas emissions, ...
Governance in the Extractive Industries: Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation
1st Edition
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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...
Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the New Extraction
1st Edition
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By Kalowatie Deonandan, Michael L. Dougherty
January 17, 2019
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and ...
Industrialising Rural India: Land, policy and resistance
1st Edition
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By Kenneth Nielsen, Patrik Oskarsson
April 25, 2018
Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a large scale. At the same time, the transfer of land from rural communities and indigenous groups for industrial parks, mining, or Special Economic ...
Responsible Mining: Key Principles for Industry Integrity
1st Edition
By Sara Bice
June 22, 2016
Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible. However corporations have little impetus to act responsibly without being held to account by an informed and active public, and by strong institutions and governments which not only create but also enforce ...
Mountain Movers: Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change
1st Edition
By Daniel M. Franks
September 17, 2015
The products of mining are everywhere – if it wasn’t grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced the...