Relative trust in critical minerals governance for just transitions in Ghana and Australia

IF 10.2 2区 经济学 0 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Clement Sefa-Nyarko , Darren Sinclair , Joshua Matanzima , Jane Alver , Evan Hamman , Stephen Bartos , Roland Burke
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This paper explores the role of trust in the sustainable mining of critical minerals for a just transition across two complementary and contrasting cases, Ghana and Australia: the former being an emerging critical mineral economy and having a need to enforce social and environmental practices that depart from its history of non-critical minerals mining; the latter using domestic and international institutions to build trust in minerals governance at home and overseas. Based on an interdisciplinary exploratory and reflective methodology relying on four different data streams, this paper offers empirical research on how trust can be built and sustained in-country and through a combination of policies and practices, both on the part of mining companies and governments. We conceptualise trust in terms of confidence about a situation or entity based on experience and reasonable expectations. We found that in critical minerals mining communities, key predictors of trust are satisfaction, participation, social cohesion that is built on shared experiences of the past and present, and an adequate degree of social and economic independence for affected communities. The policy implications of the centrality of trust come at a crucial time when critiques of the role of the critical minerals industry in re-colonising and greenwashing are on the rise. This study finds government regulatory and policy settings can be used to promote trust in ways that are applicable to both developed and developing countries.
本文通过加纳和澳大利亚这两个互补且对比鲜明的案例,探讨了信任在可持续开采关键矿产以实现公正过渡中的作用:前者是一个新兴的关键矿产经济体,需要实施有别于其非关键矿产开采历史的社会和环境实践;后者则利用国内和国际机构在国内和海外建立矿产治理方面的信任。本文基于四种不同数据流的跨学科探索和反思方法,对矿业公司和政府如何在国内通过政策和实践的结合建立和维持信任进行了实证研究。我们将信任概念化为基于经验和合理预期对某种情况或实体的信心。我们发现,在关键矿产开采社区,信任的主要预测因素是满意度、参与度、建立在过去和现在共同经验基础上的社会凝聚力,以及受影响社区适当程度的社会和经济独立性。信任的核心作用对政策的影响正值关键时刻,对关键矿产行业在重新殖民化和绿化中的作用的批评日益增多。本研究发现,政府的监管和政策设置可用于促进信任,其方式既适用于发达国家,也适用于发展中国家。
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Resources Policy
Resources Policy ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
CiteScore
13.40
自引率
23.50%
发文量
602
审稿时长
69 days
期刊介绍: Resources Policy is an international journal focused on the economics and policy aspects of mineral and fossil fuel extraction, production, and utilization. It targets individuals in academia, government, and industry. The journal seeks original research submissions analyzing public policy, economics, social science, geography, and finance in the fields of mining, non-fuel minerals, energy minerals, fossil fuels, and metals. Mineral economics topics covered include mineral market analysis, price analysis, project evaluation, mining and sustainable development, mineral resource rents, resource curse, mineral wealth and corruption, mineral taxation and regulation, strategic minerals and their supply, and the impact of mineral development on local communities and indigenous populations. The journal specifically excludes papers with agriculture, forestry, or fisheries as their primary focus.
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