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An integrated geoethical approach to the conservation of speleological geoheritage in mining contexts in Brazil

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101600

Úrsula de Azevedo Ruchkys , Darcy José dos Santos , Luciano José Alvarenga

Caves, as ancient landscape features, provide valuable records of the planet's evolutionary history, including paleontological evidence and climatic conditions. They are culturally significant, offering rich biodiversity, including endemic species, and holding diverse heritage values that span geological, paleontological, biological, archaeological, and cultural dimensions. This study compares the National Mining Plan 2030 with the Research Plan in the Ferruginous Geosystems of Carajás, aiming to identify areas of convergence and divergence, with a focus on geoethics. The goal is to foster informed discussions on the ethical challenges of managing speleological heritage in the context of mining. Through an extensive review of literature on geoethics, mining, and speleological heritage, the study examines legal frameworks, public policies, and ethical guidelines relevant to cave conservation and mining. The research, centered on the Brazilian Ferruginous Geosystems, utilises data from official documents, academic studies, and case analyses. The findings reveal significant conflicts between conservation efforts and mining interests. The National Mining Plan prioritizes economic growth, often at the expense of environmental and cultural preservation, while the Research Plan emphasizes the need to protect speleological heritage but lacks integration with mining policies. The study highlights the need for an integrated approach that balances economic development with environmental conservation, rooted in geoethical principles. It advocates for interdisciplinary research and integrated public policies to address the complexities of conserving caves while supporting mining activities, ensuring the preservation of natural and cultural heritage for future generations through a geoethical framework.

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On industrial pasts and futures: Imagining a large-scale battery industry in Norway

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101591

Anna-Sophie Hobi

Rising demand for electromobility and energy storage as a ‘green’ technological solution for low-carbon futures is driving large-scale battery manufacturing worldwide. Against this backdrop, Morrow Batteries is building a battery cell production plant in the Norwegian town of Arendal, raising expectations across the region and beyond of a post-oil pathway to wealth, prosperity and employment. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this article examines how local government and industry actors draw on industrial pasts and historical figures – specifically industrialist Sam Eyde and politician Arne Rettedal – when imagining what the battery industry might become. Here, the moral exemplarity of Eyde, Rettedal and the histories they represent offer a means of legitimising the Norwegian sociotechnical imaginary of a ‘good’ battery industry based on collective endeavour, selflessness and responsibility towards society.

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Towards granularity in climate diplomacy research: hypothetical of U.S.-Bolivia lithium cooperation

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101589

Nihar Chhatiawala

Since the Paris Agreement, an emergent body of scholarship has leveraged the data in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to analyze climate diplomacy systems, illuminating policy failures wherein the false assumption of consensus as to the purpose of a global climate regime culminates in efforts that are deemed illegitimate or unactionable on a global scale. This research explores the utility of the nation-scale lens for designing and analyzing novel climate governance systems responsive to the nuances of official climate ambitions through the construction and analysis of a conceptual systems model that depicts, as a hypothetical, the U.S. and Bolivia as they mutually explore a non-market approach to cooperation, centered on the industrialization of Bolivia's lithium resources, towards the furtherment of their respective climate ambitions. Analysis of this system reveals meaningful insights concerning the role of non-market cooperation toward global climate ambitions, identification of strengths and weaknesses in governance systems amid uncertainty, risks of maladaptation in the climate-aligned industrialization of resources, and the dynamics between industrialized and developing nations amid the climate crisis.

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Models of lithium exploitation in Latin America: Is history repeating itself?

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101581

Rafael F. Jovine, María J. Paz

Lithium is among the minerals most demanded for use in driving the energy transition of the global north. However, 61.5 % of world reserves are located in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. Based on an Institutional Political Economy approach, the first objective of this paper is to characterize the lithium exploitation models of each country based on analysis of the actors and regimes that configure them. Second, this paper evaluates whether the three countries are applying exploitation models distinct from the (neo)extractivist model, identifying the most decisive regimes and configurations of actors.

The analysis identifies measures that partially diverge from the (neo)extractivist model in Chile and Bolivia. In these cases, the State has played a crucial role in transforming the rules of the game and gradually paving the way for an industrialization agenda based on lithium. In contrast, Argentina shows a greater degree of subordination to transnational capital. Nevertheless, due to the reliance on demand from the Global North, mineral exploitation appears to perpetuate the primary-export model, thereby maintaining center-periphery development patterns. Despite the implementation of supply-side strategies, the absence of a domestic market for electric vehicles represents a structural limitation for these three countries in effectively advancing their own transition processes.

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The Myanmar borderlands as a green energy transition ‘sacrifice zone’: A case study of rare earth mining in Kachin state

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101579

Patrick Meehan , Mandy Sadan , Dan Seng Lawn

This article examines the challenges of achieving a ‘just transition’ to a sustainable and low-carbon economy and the spatially uneven distribution of costs that such a transition entails. It does so from the vantage point of Myanmar's war-torn borderlands with China, which have emerged as a major source of heavy rare earth elements, crucial to technologies including electric vehicles and wind turbines. Through a fine-grained analysis of rare earth mining in northern Myanmar, this paper explores how critical mineral frontiers drive new forms of geographically uneven development and reveal the spatial effects of the green energy transition. Our research reveals how marginalised communities currently bear disproportionate social and environmental burdens for the green energy transition and emphasises that greater focus must be placed on who and where bears the costs of this transition by centring the needs and experiences of those living in green energy ‘sacrifice zones’. We argue that if the notion of a just transition is to be meaningful in any serious and pro-poor way, it must confront how such sacrifice zones are produced and what can be done to promote social and environmental justice in these places.

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Energy transformation and industrial closures: Lessons for just transitions from the nationalized British coal industry 能源转型与工业关闭：英国国有化煤炭工业转型的经验教训

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101576

Andrew Perchard , Keith Gildart

This viewpoint draws on our major historical study of the nationalised British coal industry (1947–1994), the largest state-owned enterprise outside the Soviet bloc upon its formation, to explore the potential of history in better understanding ‘just transitions’. It explores the value of history to explicating such complex processes and also the pitfalls in history's misuse. It also explains what it is to think historically and the perspectives and methods that historians utilise, highlighting the benefits of consilience across history and the social sciences, before exploring what the evidence from nationalised British coal offers to understandings of ‘just transitions’. It concludes with a number of implications.

这一观点借鉴了我们对国有化的英国煤炭工业（1947-1994）的主要历史研究，这是苏联集团之外最大的国有企业，在其形成之初，探索历史的潜力，以更好地理解“公正的过渡”。它探讨了历史对解释这一复杂过程的价值，以及历史误用的陷阱。它还解释了什么是历史思考，以及历史学家使用的观点和方法，强调了历史和社会科学之间一致性的好处，然后探索了英国煤炭国有化的证据为理解“公正过渡”提供了什么。它总结了一些暗示。

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Entering the critical era: A review of contemporary research on artisanal and small-scale mining 进入关键时代：当代手工和小规模采矿研究综述

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101590

Sandra McKay

Over the past 50 years, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has been associated with development. Despite this importance to rural livelihoods, it presents challenges that have garnered attention from the international development sector, both within academia and international policy spaces. Definitions of development have shifted over time, and with these, so have the framings of ASM, the problems it represents, and the interventions needed to govern it. This review paper offers a conceptual framework to understand ASM as a development issue. To do this, I propose the classification of contemporary approaches to ASM into four time periods to illustrate changes of the framings of ASM within development interventions: Entrepreneurial, Survival, Formalization, and Critical Era. I argue that while the framing of ASM has evolved through four distinct eras, each shaped by an overarching development narrative, across these, ASM has been associated to two characteristics: widespread revenue sharing, and local resource governance, both of which are affected by factors identified during the Critical Era. This paper focuses on this Era where academic work (i) critically evaluates efforts to “fix” the sector, including environmental and regulatory interventions, (ii) shows ASM's heterogeneity and transformability, with a diversity of organizational and financing structures, levels of mechanization and technology use, and the expansion of cyanidation, (iii) highlights the risk of elite capture, and (iv) situates ASM as a supplier of critical minerals. Lastly, this paper proposes future areas of research to inform policies that retain the characteristics that make ASM a contributor of development.

在过去50年里，手工和小规模采矿一直与发展联系在一起。尽管这对农村生计具有重要意义，但它带来的挑战已引起国际发展部门，包括学术界和国际政策领域的关注。随着时间的推移，发展的定义发生了变化，ASM的框架、它所代表的问题以及管理它所需的干预措施也随之发生了变化。这篇综述文章提供了一个概念性框架来理解ASM作为一个开发问题。为了做到这一点，我建议将ASM的当代方法分为四个时期，以说明发展干预中ASM框架的变化：创业时代，生存时代，形式化时代和关键时代。我认为，虽然ASM的框架经历了四个不同的时代，每个时代都由一个总体发展叙事形成，但在这些时代，ASM与两个特征有关：广泛的收入共享和地方资源治理，这两个特征都受到关键时代确定的因素的影响。本文关注的是这个时代，学术工作(i)批判性地评估“修复”该部门的努力，包括环境和监管干预，（ii）显示ASM的异质性和可变革性，组织和融资结构的多样性，机械化和技术使用水平，以及氰化的扩大，（iii）强调精英捕获的风险，（iv）将ASM定位为关键矿物的供应商。最后，本文提出了未来的研究领域，以告知保留使ASM成为发展贡献者的特征的政策。

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Child labor in artisanal and small-scale mining: Implications for health, development and poverty 手工和小规模采矿业中的童工：对健康、发展和贫困的影响

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101577

Kenneth Joseph Bansah , Obed Adonteng-Kissi

This paper investigates the complexities of health-related consequences associated with child labor in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Based on qualitative data from northeast Guinea, our findings reveal pervasive adverse effects on the physical, psychological, and target organ health of affected children, significantly compromising their quality of life. Physical injuries, psychological distress, and exposure to toxic substances are prevalent, underscoring the inadequacy of existing policies and institutional actions to eradicate child labor and ensure the safety of those involved. Drawing from the findings, we have formulated a conceptual framework, the 'Child Labor Poverty Cycle,' to simplify and explain the intricate dynamics and connections among child labor, poor health outcomes, community vulnerability, and persistent poverty. These interrelated outcomes of child labor are detrimental to the socioeconomic wellbeing of communities, necessitating the need for government and stakeholder institutions to improve protection measures against child labor and address rural poverty, which partly drives children into child labor. Decision-makers can adopt the conceptual framework to inform the development of sustainable policies that address the drivers of child labor.

本文探讨了手工和小规模采矿业（ASM）中童工对健康造成的复杂影响。根据几内亚东北部的定性数据，我们的研究结果显示，受影响儿童的身体、心理和目标器官健康普遍受到不利影响，生活质量大打折扣。身体伤害、心理困扰和接触有毒物质的情况十分普遍，这凸显了现有政策和制度在消除童工现象和确保童工安全方面的不足。根据调查结果，我们制定了一个概念框架--"童工贫困循环"，以简化和解释童工、不良健康后果、社区脆弱性和持续贫困之间错综复杂的动态和联系。这些相互关联的童工现象损害了社区的社会经济福祉，因此政府和利益相关机构有必要改进童工保护措施，并解决农村贫困问题，因为农村贫困是导致儿童从事童工劳动的部分原因。决策者可采用这一概念框架，为制定可持续政策提供信息，以解决童工问题的驱动因素。

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Evolving corporate social responsibility practices and their impact on social conflict 不断演变的企业社会责任实践及其对社会冲突的影响

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101580

Lijuan Bian , Yufeng Xiao , James Robert

This study investigates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, emphasising the shift from a state-owned business (SOE) to a multinational corporation (MNC) and its impact on community relations and social conflict. The research employs the CSR 2.0 strategy, transitioning from conventional charity to partnership-oriented efforts, using qualitative data obtained from semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders. The results indicate that while the multinational corporation has sought to enhance openness and community involvement, persistent concerns over environmental harm and unfulfilled development commitments continue to erode confidence and exacerbate social tensions. Moreover, the MNC's CSR initiatives often prioritise trained labour from external sources, resulting in local discontent and scepticism over the efficacy of CSR in addressing entrenched problems. Policy proposals emphasise the need for robust CSR rules, open reporting, and coordination among firms, governments, and civil society to facilitate sustainable community development. This study underscores that CSR programs must proactively confront historical challenges and be tailored to local situations. Additional study is required to investigate conflict-sensitive CSR strategies in diverse countries, with the objective of alleviating social tensions in resource-dependent communities and fostering more sustainable industrial practices.

本研究调查了内蒙古包头市的企业社会责任（CSR）活动，强调了从国有企业（SOE）到跨国公司（MNC）的转变及其对社区关系和社会冲突的影响。研究采用了企业社会责任 2.0 战略，从传统的慈善活动过渡到以伙伴关系为导向的努力，并使用了从与当地利益相关者的半结构式访谈中获得的定性数据。研究结果表明，虽然跨国公司努力提高开放性和社区参与度，但对环境危害的持续担忧和未兑现的发展承诺仍在削弱人们的信心，加剧社会紧张局势。此外，跨国公司的企业社会责任倡议往往优先考虑外部来源的训练有素的劳动力，导致当地人的不满，并怀疑企业社会责任在解决根深蒂固的问题方面是否有效。政策建议强调有必要制定健全的企业社会责任规则，公开报告，并在企业、政府和民间社会之间进行协调，以促进社区的可持续发展。本研究强调，企业社会责任计划必须积极应对历史挑战，并根据当地情况量身定制。还需要开展更多研究，调查不同国家对冲突敏感的企业社会责任战略，以缓解资源依赖型社区的社会紧张局势，促进更可持续的工业实践。

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Mining in Africa: Are local communities paying the price of the global energy transition? 非洲的采矿业：当地社区是否在为全球能源转型付出代价？

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101565

Hugo Lapeyronie , Eszter Szedlacsek

The energy transition is crucial to unlocking the potential of the Paris Agreement and the global climate goals. To meet the projected demand for the transition, critical mineral extraction is expected to significantly increase in countries of the global South. The critical mineral mining boom has the potential to drive economic development, contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the 2030 Agenda. However, considering historical tensions between extractive industries and development, critical mineral mining risks exacerbating socio-economic inequalities and poverty.

Against this background, the paper investigates factors influencing the local socio-economic impact of critical mineral extraction. Using satellite data and mining data from the S&P database, the study examines the socio-economic effects of 94 critical mineral mines that opened in Africa between 2000 and 2020, focusing on mineral-specific attributes and contextual factors, as well as factors related to governance.

Findings indicate that critical mineral extraction can have significant positive impacts on local socioeconomic activity, particularly in areas distant from existing infrastructure and urban centers. The results highlight the complex role of institutional quality in mediating the socio-economic impact of mines, and shift attention to the underlying factors that shape institutional performance to deliver local benefits.

能源转型对于释放《巴黎协定》和全球气候目标的潜力至关重要。为满足转型的预期需求，预计全球南方国家的关键矿产开采将大幅增加。关键矿产开采的繁荣有可能推动经济发展，促进实现 2030 年议程下的可持续发展目标（SDGs）。然而，考虑到采掘业与发展之间的历史矛盾，关键矿产开采有可能加剧社会经济不平等和贫困。在此背景下，本文研究了影响关键矿产开采对当地社会经济影响的因素。该研究利用 S&P 数据库中的卫星数据和采矿数据，考察了 2000 年至 2020 年间在非洲开业的 94 个关键矿产的社会经济影响，重点关注矿产的具体属性和背景因素，以及与治理相关的因素。研究结果表明，关键矿产开采可对当地社会经济活动产生重大积极影响，尤其是在远离现有基础设施和城市中心的地区。研究结果凸显了制度质量在调解矿业对社会经济影响方面的复杂作用，并将人们的注意力转移到塑造制度绩效以实现地方利益的潜在因素上。

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