Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal最新文献

Energy transformation and industrial closures: Lessons for just transitions from the nationalized British coal industry

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-12-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101576

Andrew Perchard , Keith Gildart

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Entering the critical era: A review of contemporary research on artisanal and small-scale mining

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101590

Sandra McKay

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101565

Hugo Lapeyronie , Eszter Szedlacsek

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Power and community engagement: Developmental impact of community development agreement in Kono diamond mining areas, Sierra Leone 权力与社区参与：塞拉利昂科诺钻石开采区社区发展协议的发展影响

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101578

Sigismond A. Wilson

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Nationalist enclaves: Industrialising the critical mineral boom in Indonesia 民族主义飞地：印度尼西亚关键矿产繁荣的工业化

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101564

Eve Warburton

{"title":"Nationalist enclaves: Industrialising the critical mineral boom in Indonesia","authors":"Eve Warburton","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101564","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nickel's new status as a critical transition mineral has altered developmental agendas in the world's largest producer—Indonesia. The country's resource nationalist ambitions for a higher-value downstream mining industry dovetail with global demand for nickel, a key ingredient in low-carbon technologies like electric vehicles. Indonesia banned raw nickel exports and forced importers, primarily from China, to invest in downstream processing facilities. As a result, Indonesia's nickel industry expanded at breathtaking speed, export revenues soared, and economic growth along the country's nickel belt grew to over three times the national average. Indonesia's leaders cast the downstream sector as both an economic success story and a point of nationalist pride. This paper reflects critically on nickel-led growth in Indonesia, arguing the industry is generating <em>new nationalist enclaves.</em> I advance this concept to capture the paradox that new nickel-based industrial parks meet resource nationalist demands for a value-added extractive sector; yet the parks emerge as reconstituted extractive economic enclaves. Nickel-led growth relies on narrow networks of foreign and politically-connected domestic capital, and the industry's benefits are unevenly distributed. These political economy arrangements generate positive pecuniary externalities for a narrow set of state and private actors, and familiar negative externalities for the environment and communities at sites of extraction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"20 ","pages":"Article 101564"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Values-driven water management in coal seam gas industries 煤层气行业以价值观为导向的水资源管理

IF 3.6 2区社会学

Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101566

Sarah Shalsi , Kamila Svobodova , Glen Corder , Katherine Witt

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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

IF 3.6 2区社会学

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

IF 3.6 2区社会学

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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