This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods.…mehr
This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods.
Emma Gilberthorpe is Lecturer in Anthropology and International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK and Gavin Hilson is Professor and Chair of Sustainability in Business at the University of Surrey Business School, UK.
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List of Figures Tables and Box Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Indigenous Employment Training and Retention: Successes and Challenges at Red Dog Mine 2. Mining in Aboriginal Australia: Economic Impacts Sustainable Livelihoods and Cultural Difference at Century Mine Northwest Queensland 3. Reciprocity in the Canadian Dene Diamond Mining Economy 4. The Money Rain Phenomenon: Papua New Guinea Oil and the Resource Curse 5. Fisheries in Coastal India: Extraction Livelihoods and a Way of Life 6. Negotiable Differences? Conflicts over Mining and Development in South East Ecuador 7. Corporate Social Responsibility in Oil-Rich Sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptualizing the Challenges 8. Land Oil and Indigenous People in the Russian North: A Case Study of the Oil Pipeline and Evenki in Aldan 9. Timber Extraction in Solomon Islands: Too Much Too Fast; Too Little Too Late 10. What Local People Want with Forests: Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea 11. Conservation Extraction and Corruption: Is Sustainable Forest Management Possible in Romania? 12. Preserving Forests and Protecting Livelihoods: The Challenge of REDD Governance 13. Fair Trade Mineral Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Critical Reflections Afterword Index
List of Figures Tables and Box Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Indigenous Employment Training and Retention: Successes and Challenges at Red Dog Mine 2. Mining in Aboriginal Australia: Economic Impacts Sustainable Livelihoods and Cultural Difference at Century Mine Northwest Queensland 3. Reciprocity in the Canadian Dene Diamond Mining Economy 4. The Money Rain Phenomenon: Papua New Guinea Oil and the Resource Curse 5. Fisheries in Coastal India: Extraction Livelihoods and a Way of Life 6. Negotiable Differences? Conflicts over Mining and Development in South East Ecuador 7. Corporate Social Responsibility in Oil-Rich Sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptualizing the Challenges 8. Land Oil and Indigenous People in the Russian North: A Case Study of the Oil Pipeline and Evenki in Aldan 9. Timber Extraction in Solomon Islands: Too Much Too Fast; Too Little Too Late 10. What Local People Want with Forests: Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea 11. Conservation Extraction and Corruption: Is Sustainable Forest Management Possible in Romania? 12. Preserving Forests and Protecting Livelihoods: The Challenge of REDD Governance 13. Fair Trade Mineral Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Critical Reflections Afterword Index
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