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IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2026-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2026.101851

Augustine Gyan

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IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101825

William N. Holden

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Mining, separate development, and uneven impact: Evidence from South Africa’s former homelands during the 2000s commodity boom 矿业、独立发展和不均衡影响：2000年代大宗商品繁荣时期来自南非前家园的证据

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101709

Musa Nxele

This paper investigates how the spatial legacy of South Africa’s Separate Development policy shaped the local impact of mining during the 2000s commodity boom. It focuses on the former homelands – territories created under apartheid to confine Black South Africans to politically excluded, under-resourced areas – many of which coincided with mineral-rich land. The study asks whether industrial mining in these areas contributed to local poverty reduction and employment, or whether historical spatial inequality suppressed those benefits. Despite its significance, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how mining activity affects socio-economic outcomes in these structurally marginalised areas.

First, the paper draws on census data from 1970 to 1991 and secondary literature to trace the origins of spatial poverty in the former homelands, showing how the design of Separate Development entrenched underdevelopment. Second, it uses an original empirical strategy that merges individual-level census data from 1996, 2001, and 2011 with geocoded mining data from over 400 mines.

The analysis compares wards located in former homelands with those in non-former homeland areas, and with non-mining wards within former homelands. The results reveal that while mining activity is generally associated with lower poverty and higher employment, these benefits are significantly weaker in the former homelands. The study also highlights the volatility of mining-linked employment, which closely tracks commodity price fluctuations, especially in marginalised areas.

本文研究了南非独立发展政策的空间遗产如何影响2000年代大宗商品繁荣时期采矿业对当地的影响。它的重点是前家园-在种族隔离时期建立的领土，将黑人限制在政治上被排斥，资源匮乏的地区-其中许多与矿产丰富的土地相吻合。该研究询问这些地区的工业采矿是否对当地的减贫和就业做出了贡献，还是历史上的空间不平等抑制了这些好处。尽管采矿活动意义重大，但缺乏关于采矿活动如何影响这些结构边缘化地区的社会经济结果的经验证据。首先，本文利用1970年至1991年的人口普查数据和二手文献，追溯了原家园空间贫困的根源，揭示了分离开发的设计是如何导致不发达的。其次，它采用了一种原始的经验策略，将1996年、2001年和2011年的个人层面人口普查数据与400多个矿山的地理编码采矿数据合并在一起。该分析比较了位于前家园的病房与非前家园地区的病房，以及前家园内的非采矿病房。结果显示，虽然采矿活动通常与较低的贫困和较高的就业有关，但这些好处在以前的家园明显较弱。该研究还强调了与矿业相关的就业的波动性，这密切跟踪商品价格波动，特别是在边缘化地区。

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What makes minerals critical? Problematizing sovereignty in times of crisis 矿物质为何如此重要？在危机时期将主权问题化

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101720

Brice Laurent, Guillaume Louvet, Roman Solé-Pomies, Alexandre Violle

This paper examines what makes minerals "critical" by analyzing criticality studies, which are geological and economic analyses aimed at forecasting future supply risks. It explores three contemporary examples from European and French contexts. In Europe, critical materials are discussed in relation to the recent Critical Raw Materials Act. While the European approach highlights a crisis in Europe’s capacity to monitor and respond to market trends, the French cases present different ways of framing the crisis. One case, involving the institution Ofremi, focuses on outlining strategic directions to safeguard national sovereignty and prepare for external threats to the economy. The other stems from a state-owned electricity distribution company, which uses criticality as a framework for exploring the technical and political choices that shape energy transition trajectories. The analysis of these three cases demonstrates that defining criticality ultimately reflects the desired expressions of sovereignty in times of crisis. More than just a technical assessment of supply risks, criticality embodies deeper struggles over how states define crises and assert sovereignty.

本文通过分析临界性研究，即旨在预测未来供应风险的地质和经济分析，来检验是什么使矿产变得“临界”。它探讨了欧洲和法国背景下的三个当代例子。在欧洲，关键材料的讨论与最近的关键原材料法案有关。尽管欧洲的做法突显出欧洲监控和应对市场趋势的能力存在危机，但法国的案例展示了对危机的不同解读。其中一个案例涉及Ofremi银行，重点是概述维护国家主权和应对外部经济威胁的战略方向。另一个来自一家国有配电公司，该公司将临界性作为一个框架，探索影响能源转型轨迹的技术和政治选择。对这三个案例的分析表明，对临界性的定义最终反映了危机时期主权的期望表达。临界性不仅仅是对供应风险的技术评估，还体现了各国如何定义危机和维护主权的更深层次的斗争。

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Drivers of changes and transition pathways of sand resource extraction in tabasco, Mexico 墨西哥塔巴斯科沙资源开采变化驱动因素及过渡途径

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101752

Román Ahumada-Mexía , Aurora Torres , Claudia María Monzón-Alvarado , María Azahara Mesa-Jurado , Miguel Ángel Díaz Perera

Sand, gravel, and crushed rock (sand resources) are the most extracted solid materials globally, with demand projected to double by 2060. To understand the drivers of this changing demand and building on the concept of transitions in sand production, we studied the transition pathways—namely, intensification, separation, and substitution of sand resources in Tabasco, Mexico. We drew on regional official records, semi-structured interviews and field observations on two sand resources production hotspots: Cunduacán (river sand) and Macuspana (crushed rock). Our results reveal that sand extraction in Tabasco increased from annual average volumes of 3 Mt (2006–2010) to 61 Mt (2016–2020). We identified urban expansion and flood control efforts as the main drivers of change in the region, with more recent changes driven by large-scale infrastructure development projects. Cunduacán and Macuspana accounted for 78 % of authorized extraction, driven by technological and machinery-related changes that enabled production intensification and diversification. Given the strategic location and infrastructure connectivity of these hotspots, they have become key sources of supply for local demand but also for peripheral municipalities with high material needs and limited productive capacity. Although extraction volumes from quarries began to exceed those from rivers in 2015, interviews and fieldwork revealed no evidence of substitution that would indicate a transition from river mining to crushed rock production. Studying transition pathways is a crucial first step towards understanding the implications of increased sand resources consumption and can support regional development with broader environmental and social sustainability goals.

沙子、砾石和碎石（砂资源）是全球开采最多的固体材料，预计到2060年需求将翻一番。为了了解这种需求变化的驱动因素，并建立在产砂过渡概念的基础上，我们研究了墨西哥Tabasco砂资源的过渡途径，即集约化、分离和替代。我们利用了区域官方记录、半结构化访谈和对两个砂资源生产热点：Cunduacán（河砂）和Macuspana（碎石）的实地观察。研究结果显示，塔巴斯科的采砂量从2006-2010年的年均300万吨增加到2016-2020年的6100万吨。我们认为城市扩张和防洪工作是该地区变化的主要驱动因素，最近的变化是由大型基础设施开发项目推动的。Cunduacán和Macuspana占授权开采量的78%，这是由于技术和机械相关的变化使生产集约化和多样化。鉴于这些热点地区的战略位置和基础设施的连通性，它们已成为当地需求的主要供应来源，同时也成为物质需求高、生产能力有限的周边城市的主要供应来源。尽管从2015年开始，采石场的采掘量开始超过河流采掘量，但采访和实地调查显示，没有证据表明从河流采掘向碎石生产过渡。研究过渡途径是了解沙子资源消耗增加的影响的关键的第一步，可以支持具有更广泛的环境和社会可持续性目标的区域发展。

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Rebuilding project-affected livelihoods using the Graduation Approach 利用毕业方法重建受项目影响的生计

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101757

Ana Maria Esteves , Alexandra Maurtua Konstantinidis , Benjamin Carroll , Clotilde Gouley , Frank Vanclay

We consider the potential of the Graduation Approach to restore livelihoods affected by project-induced displacement and resettlement in an extractive industries context. The Graduation Approach, developed by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), is a strategy for alleviating poverty. A household ‘graduates’ from one level of intervention to the next after reaching goals for: social protection; livelihoods promotion; financial inclusion; and social empowerment. Key features of the Graduation Approach include: tailored support; coaching; and a focus on vulnerable populations. We adapted the Graduation Approach so that it can address the complexities associated with livelihood restoration in the context of project land acquisition and is consistent with a human rights based approach and international standards. Our adaptation of the Graduation Approach is a major contribution to good social performance practice, especially in relation to managing the impacts on vulnerable people from the physical displacement and economic displacement from project land acquisition. Reflecting on social performance practice, literature review and interviews with leading practitioners experienced in applying the Graduation Approach, we outline an implementable process that social practitioners and policymakers could use to improve the effectiveness of livelihood restoration efforts in extractive and other projects that displace people. We outline our modified approach according to the typical five phases of livelihood impact management in a project setting: Project Conceptual Design; Planning for Livelihoods Re-establishment; Preparation for Implementation; Implementation; and Close-Out. We suggest that using our modified Graduation Approach will reduce the harm from project-induced displacement and resettlement.

我们认为，在采掘业背景下，“分级”方法有可能恢复受项目导致的流离失所和重新安置影响的生计。孟加拉国农村发展委员会（BRAC）制定的“分级办法”是一项减轻贫困的战略。一个家庭在达到以下目标后，从一个干预水平“毕业”到下一个干预水平：社会保护；生计推广;金融包容性;以及社会赋权。毕业方法的主要特点包括：量身定制的支持；指导;关注弱势群体。我们调整了“分级方法”，使其能够解决项目土地征用背景下与生计恢复相关的复杂性，并与基于人权的方法和国际标准保持一致。我们对“毕业方法”的改编是对良好社会绩效实践的重大贡献，特别是在管理项目土地征用对弱势群体的物理迁移和经济迁移的影响方面。通过对社会绩效实践的反思、文献综述和对应用毕业方法的主要从业人员的访谈，我们概述了一个可实施的过程，社会从业者和政策制定者可以使用该过程来提高采掘业和其他流离失所项目中生计恢复工作的有效性。我们根据项目环境中生计影响管理的典型五个阶段概述了我们的改进方法：项目概念设计；重建生计的规划；执行准备工作；实施;和竣工。我们建议使用我们改进的分级方法将减少项目引起的流离失所和重新安置的危害。

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Gender and mining: Assessing the landscape for women entrepreneurs in the critical minerals supply chain 性别与采矿：评估关键矿产供应链中女企业家的前景

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101753

Patricia F. Ackah-Baidoo

What are the implications of enclavity in mining for women entrepreneurs within the critical minerals supply chain? This article seeks to reframe gender considerations in mining by examining it through the lens of the industry's enclave characteristic. Specifically, it explores the challenges and opportunities encountered by local women business owners operating in the critical minerals sector. Drawing on field research from Ghana, the article demonstrates that the diverse identities of women involved in mining activities are crucial for effective Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices during the transition to critical minerals. Despite the historical significance of women in mining, sociocultural factors continue to shape their participation. Over time, various efforts have been made to meaningfully engage women in mining through research advancements and policy reforms. However, these have primarily centred on the mining workforce, overlooking the broader supply chain. This focus has obscured the complexities faced by women in large-scale mining operations, limiting approaches to addressing gender disparities within the sector. The findings suggest that enclavity presents unique obstacles for local women entrepreneurs in the critical minerals supply chain, impeding the prospects of achieving inclusive and sustained development. Yet, opportunities may exist, provided there is a robust understanding of enclavity.

采矿业的飞地性对关键矿产供应链内的女企业家有什么影响？本文试图通过该行业的飞地特征来审视它，从而重新构建采矿中的性别考虑。具体来说，它探讨了在关键的矿物部门经营的当地女企业主所遇到的挑战和机会。根据加纳的实地研究，本文表明，在向关键矿物过渡的过程中，参与采矿活动的妇女的不同身份对于有效的环境、社会和治理（ESG）实践至关重要。尽管妇女在采矿方面具有历史意义，但社会文化因素继续影响她们的参与。长期以来，已作出各种努力，通过研究进展和政策改革使妇女有意义地参与采矿。然而，这些问题主要集中在采矿工人身上，而忽视了更广泛的供应链。这种重点掩盖了妇女在大规模采矿作业中所面临的复杂性，限制了解决该部门内性别不平等问题的办法。调查结果表明，在关键的矿产供应链中，飞地性给当地女企业家带来了独特的障碍，阻碍了实现包容性和可持续发展的前景。然而，只要对飞地性有充分的理解，机会就可能存在。

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Sustainable pathways for rural sand mining: Integrating socioeconomic resilience, financial viability and environmental stewardship in Badulu Oya, Sri Lanka 农村采砂的可持续途径：在斯里兰卡Badulu Oya整合社会经济弹性、财务可行性和环境管理

IF 4.3 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101744

Sithumini Gunawardhana , Nimila Dushyantha , Gimhani Nipunika , Sandunika Rathnayake , Gayithri Niluka Kuruppu , Panchala Weerakoon , Titus Cooray

Sand mining is a prominent livelihood strategy in rural Sri Lanka, particularly in the Badulu Oya region. While it provides essential income for local communities, unregulated practices have resulted in significant environmental degradation and institutional challenges. This study explores the socioeconomic, financial, and environmental dimensions of sand mining through a qualitative approach, supported by GIS-based land use/land cover (LULC) analysis between 2016 and 2024. Findings reveal that sand mining remains a profitable but precarious livelihood, constrained by seasonal variability, licensing delays, and limited alternative employment. Workers face exposure to health risks due to polluted water, while gendered labor roles and bureaucratic inefficiencies undermine equitable participation. Financially, the sector offers high returns relative to rural alternatives, yet profitability is offset by rising costs and regulatory limitations. Environmentally, the activity has accelerated riverbank erosion, biodiversity loss, and land degradation. Governance remains fragmented, with gaps in enforcement, public engagement, and data-driven resource management. This study proposes a six-point framework for sustainable rural sand mining, grounded in both stakeholder insights and GIS-based environmental change analysis. Furthermore, the study reframes sand mining as a rural governance issue, linking informal labor, environmental vulnerability, and institutional fragmentation. These contributions provide methodological and conceptual insights applicable to other Global South regions. These findings underscore the need for integrated rural governance that aligns environmental stewardship with socioeconomic resilience.

采砂是斯里兰卡农村的一项重要生计战略，特别是在Badulu Oya地区。虽然它为当地社区提供了基本收入，但不受管制的做法造成了严重的环境退化和体制挑战。本研究以2016年至2024年基于gis的土地利用/土地覆盖（LULC）分析为支撑，通过定性方法探讨了采砂的社会经济、金融和环境维度。调查结果显示，采砂仍然是一种有利可图但不稳定的生计，受到季节变化、许可延迟和有限的替代就业的限制。由于水污染，工人面临健康风险，而性别劳动角色和官僚效率低下破坏了公平参与。从财务上讲，该行业的回报高于农村，但盈利能力被成本上升和监管限制所抵消。在环境方面，这种活动加速了河岸侵蚀、生物多样性丧失和土地退化。治理仍然支离破碎，在执法、公众参与和数据驱动的资源管理方面存在差距。本研究基于利益相关者的见解和基于gis的环境变化分析，提出了可持续农村采砂的六点框架。此外，该研究将采砂作为一个农村治理问题，将非正式劳动力、环境脆弱性和制度碎片化联系起来。这些贡献提供了适用于全球南方其他地区的方法和概念见解。这些发现强调了综合农村治理的必要性，使环境管理与社会经济韧性保持一致。

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The development of Tunisia’s green transition, actors’ interests, and policy coalitions’ power dynamics 突尼斯绿色转型的发展、行动者的利益和政策联盟的权力动态

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101738

Mohamed Ismail Sabry

This paper examines the pathway of the green transition in Tunisia. It investigates it in terms of it’s a)- extractivity/inclusivity with regard to the typology of interested actors and b)- stability with the help of policy coalition analysis. It also examines the effect of an external shock represented in an authoritarian shift on Tunisia’s green transition pathway. A conceptual and theoretical framework is developed which accounts for three main variables: actors’ interests, comparative power, and coordination capabilities. Then the Tunisian case is analyzed accordingly based on qualitative data obtained from interviews that were conducted in 2022-2023, publicly available quantitative data, and the literature. The findings suggest that the green transition did not proceed in Tunisia as planned in its democratic decade (2011-2021) because of the relative weakness of the pro-transition policy coalition vis a vis the contra-coalition and generally the instability of an extractive pathway in a more democratic society with active societal actors. The external shock of the constitutional coup of 2021 reshuffled power dynamics, coordination, and policy coalitions’ comparative power. Although there is no evidence that it made the pathway more extractive, it relatively stabilized it.

本文考察了突尼斯绿色转型的路径。它从以下方面进行了调查：a)-关于感兴趣行为者类型的可提取性/包容性；b)-在政策联盟分析的帮助下的稳定性。它还考察了以威权主义转变为代表的外部冲击对突尼斯绿色转型道路的影响。本文提出了一个概念和理论框架，该框架考虑了三个主要变量：行动者的利益、比较权力和协调能力。然后，根据从2022-2023年进行的访谈中获得的定性数据、公开的定量数据和文献，对突尼斯案例进行相应的分析。研究结果表明，在突尼斯的民主十年（2011-2021年）中，绿色转型并没有按计划进行，因为支持转型的政策联盟相对于反对转型的政策联盟相对较弱，而且在一个拥有活跃社会行动者的更民主的社会中，采掘途径通常是不稳定的。虽然没有证据表明它使途径更容易提取，但它相对稳定了它。

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Socioeconomic framework and indicators for assessing cumulative effects of resource development on indigenous nations 评估资源开发对土著民族累积影响的社会经济框架和指标

IF 3.6 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal

Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101735

Effah Kwabena Antwi , John Boakye-Danquah , Denyse Donna Mary Nadon , Maurice Joseph Kistabish , Tanya Matthews , Akua Nyamekye Darko , Priscilla Toloo Yohuno (Apronti) , Felicitas Egunyu

The development of natural resources, particularly mining and associated infrastructure, has profound impacts on ecosystems and people, particularly on host communities, with Indigenous people often bearing unequal burdens. Mainstream impact assessments continue to be disproportionately directed towards evaluating mostly biophysical impacts, usually neglecting the critical issues of cultural, social, health and economic aspects that impact Indigenous ways of knowing and being. In this paper, we provide a conceptual contribution to the search for a holistic socio-economic assessment of the cumulative impacts of resource development on Indigenous people. Drawing upon existing research and direct engagement with Indigenous people, we propose a holistic framework for regional cumulative socio-economic effect assessments of resource development. We anchored our framework in the concepts of environment, place, and space linked to the Indigenous concept of wellbeing. To operationalize the framework at the regional level, we recommend building Indigenous representation and capacity by adopting Indigenous governance systems, legal principles and values based on the concepts such as the mino pimatisiwin. Our approach provides a holistic, relational, interrelated, and interdependent view that is culturally sensitive, responsible, and reciprocal and provides a relevant foundation for selecting appropriate socio-economic indicators to assess regional cumulative effects of mining on Indigenous people.

自然资源的开发，特别是采矿和相关基础设施的开发，对生态系统和人民，特别是对收容社区产生了深远的影响，土著人民往往承受着不平等的负担。主流影响评估仍然不成比例地主要侧重于评价生物物理影响，通常忽略了影响土著认识和生存方式的文化、社会、健康和经济方面的关键问题。在本文中，我们为寻求对资源开发对土著人民的累积影响进行全面的社会经济评估提供了概念上的贡献。根据现有的研究和与土著人民的直接接触，我们提出了一个评估资源开发的区域累积社会经济影响的整体框架。我们将框架固定在环境、地点和空间的概念上，这些概念与土著的幸福概念有关。为了使该框架在区域一级运作，我们建议通过采用土著治理体系、法律原则和基于“小规划”等概念的价值观来建立土著代表和能力。我们的方法提供了一种整体的、相互关系的、相互关联的和相互依赖的观点，这种观点在文化上敏感、负责任和互惠，并为选择适当的社会经济指标来评估采矿对土著人民的区域累积影响提供了相关的基础。

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