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Economic impacts of oil and gas clusters: Analyzing the influence of oil and gas revenues in Brazil and Texas 石油和天然气集群的经济影响：分析巴西和得克萨斯州石油和天然气收入的影响

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101571

Jorge Amaro Bastos Alves , Jin Han Park , Jianbang Gan , Marcus Polette

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Extractive separations: A Polanyian note on the international investment treaty regime 采掘分离：关于国际投资条约制度的波兰尼注释

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101559

Rob Aitken

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Drivers of artisanal and small-scale mining in the Denkyira area, central region of Ghana 加纳中部地区登基拉地区手工和小规模采矿的驱动因素

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101569

Samuel Antwi , Stephen Bugu Kendie , Emmanuel Yamoah Tenkorang , Simon Mariwah

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“All we have left is to defend our reserve”: Social structures and community resistance to large-scale gold mining in the Manuripi Wildlife Reserve in northern Bolivia "我们剩下的就是保卫我们的保护区"：玻利维亚北部马努里皮野生动物保护区的社会结构和社区对大规模金矿开采的抵制

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101574

Janpeter Schilling , Claudia Pinzón Cuellar , Rebecca Froese , Diana Figueroa , Miguel Villavicencio , Luise Werland , Regine Schönenberg

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Hydrosocial imaginaries of green extractivism: Water-energy transitions and geothermal lithium development at the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, California 绿色采掘的水社会想象：加利福尼亚帝国谷 Salton 海的水能转换和地热锂开发

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101567

Alexa Britton , Luis Olmedo , Christian A. Torres , James J.A. Blair

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Community voices: Assessing the benefits and concerns of mining in China 社区的声音：评估中国采矿业的益处与担忧

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101561

Danyang Li

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Reinventing the global oil capital: The sociotechnical dynamics of industrial net-zero megaprojects in Texas 重塑全球石油资本：得克萨斯州工业净零巨型项目的社会技术动力

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101518

Kyle S. Herman , Benjamin K. Sovacool

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Conceptualizing collective action and informal women cooperatives in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining sector: The case of Northern Ghana 非洲手工和小规模采矿业集体行动和非正式妇女合作社的概念化：加纳北部的案例

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101558

Francis Arthur-Holmes , Jennifer Dokbila Mengba

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Displaced by the transition: The political ecology of climate change mitigation, displacements and Lithium extraction in Zimbabwe 因转型而流离失所：津巴布韦减缓气候变化、流离失所和锂开采的政治生态学

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101572

Joshua Matanzima

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A Code of Ethics for the social performance profession 社会绩效职业道德准则

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101573

Ana Maria Esteves

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