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Securitization of the mining sector? The role of the armed forces in state interventions in Tanzania 采矿业的安全化？武装部队在坦桑尼亚国家干预中的作用

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101441

Chris Huggins , Abel Kinyondo

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Energy and water infrastructures management under energy transition pressure in mineral extraction urban and rural areas: A case study of the Republic of Guinea 矿产开采城市和农村地区能源转型压力下的能源和水基础设施管理：几内亚共和国案例研究

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101433

Benjamin Kolie , Ayman Elshkaki , Geoffrey Sunahara , Mohamed Lamine Diakite , Mamoudou Sangare

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Complexity and interdependence in local mineral extraction planning: The Nasa Mountain Quartz Case in Northern Norway 当地矿产开采规划的复杂性和相互依存性：挪威北部纳萨山石英案例

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101434

Olof Stjernström , Tanja Ellingsen , Astri Dankertsen , Håkan T. Sandersen

{"title":"Complexity and interdependence in local mineral extraction planning: The Nasa Mountain Quartz Case in Northern Norway","authors":"Olof Stjernström , Tanja Ellingsen , Astri Dankertsen , Håkan T. Sandersen","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101434","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Green Transition demands mineral extraction. The importance for Europe to gain independence from China within this area is also high on the political agenda, which has resulted in a renewal of interest in mineral-extraction in the Nordic countries, including Norway. Despite the increasing demand at the global, European and national level, the planning process itself though takes place at the local level, raising issues of complexities, contradictions and dependencies. This study focuses on the <em>Nasa Mountain Quartz Case</em> in Northern Norway,and finds that the local mineral extraction planning process is best described as a “wicked problem”. Different local concerns – regional development vs environmental concerns and violation of reindeer areas in a cross-border context - as well as different global demands and conventions - contradict each other, making the presumably limited local planning process of Rana municipality quite demanding, crossing sectorial and the local, national and global/EU domain. Increased understanding and awareness of this is needed at all levels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000327/pdfft?md5=bee161e2f1ed7e54ad15e5f9b86e56fc&pid=1-s2.0-S2214790X24000327-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139941903","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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Social impacts of critical mineral exploration on Indigenous peoples’ lands: A case study from Solomon Islands 关键矿产勘探对土著人民土地的社会影响：所罗门群岛案例研究

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101439

Jillian Ash

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Living with coal in India: A temporal study of livelihood changes 印度的煤炭生活：生计变化的时间研究

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101437

Patrik Oskarsson , Radhika Krishnan , Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

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Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process based environmental, social and governance risks assessment for the future phosphorite mining in Estonia 基于模糊分析层次过程的爱沙尼亚未来磷矿开采的环境、社会和治理风险评估

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101438

A. Paat , J. Majak , V. Karu , M. Hitch

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Oil fiscal regime and national oil companies. The hydrocarbon sector in Argentina 2003–2022 石油财政制度和国家石油公司。2003-2022 年阿根廷的碳氢化合物部门

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2023.101399

Juan M. Ramírez-Cendrero , Eszter Wirth

{"title":"Oil fiscal regime and national oil companies. The hydrocarbon sector in Argentina 2003–2022","authors":"Juan M. Ramírez-Cendrero , Eszter Wirth","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2023.101399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101399","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Argentinian hydrocarbon sector's performance has displayed distinctive characteristics when compared to other Latin American experiences, as the ones in Brazil, Bolivia or Ecuador. State control over the sector has been the common feature among these experiences, but in the Argentinian case it has been deployed cautiously since 2003. Only since 2012 did State involvement become more prominent through the Hydrocarbon Sovereignty Act, as it had been delimited to prices, access to supply and taxes on exports until 2011. This strategy was partially interrupted after Mauricio Macri's victory in the 2015 presidential elections. Based on these changes, to what extent did the model consolidated with the 2012 act represent a radical change or a mere adjustment in the dynamics of Argentina's oil and gas sector? How did the oil model implemented in the 2003–2015 period affect the dynamics of the sector and what were the implications of these changes? And, taking into account the return of liberalizing policies under the mandate of Mauricio Macri and certain return to extractivism under that of Alberto Fernández, what lessons can be derived from the Argentinian case for the configuration of oil policies focused on achieving energy self-sufficiency and on changing the productive matrix? Answering these questions is the objective of this work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139748804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The socio-economic impacts of artisanal mining on ordinary villagers in Insiza District, Zimbabwe 手工采矿对津巴布韦 Insiza 地区普通村民的社会经济影响

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101422

Dumisani Maqeda Ngwenya , Sikhathele Matambo , Keith Phiri

{"title":"The socio-economic impacts of artisanal mining on ordinary villagers in Insiza District, Zimbabwe","authors":"Dumisani Maqeda Ngwenya , Sikhathele Matambo , Keith Phiri","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101422","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study sought to understand how ordinary villagers in the artisanal mining areas of Insiza District, where Emthonjeni Women's Forum implemented a program titled ‘Women as strategic partners in peacebuilding’, are affected by the violence and conflicts emanating from the illegal and artisanal mining in the proximities of their villages. The project sought to strengthen resilience, social cohesion and women's security in socio economic and political conflict as well as strengthening knowledge of local women and traditional leaders on the referral pathways of addressing GBV, including the strengthening of stakeholder coordination in conflict mitigation, transformation and resolution. While men, boys, girls and women all experience violence in varying degrees, it was found that women feel the effects of violence and conflict the most as they experience it as direct victims, and vicariously when their husbands or sons participate in violent activities. This is because they bring their troubles home to the wives or mothers who often have to address the problems or live with the consequences of the men's actions. Gender is often one of the key determinants of what social spaces and opportunities might be available or not available to society or family. Therefore, people's vulnerability is shaped by their gender although other factors may also contribute to it. Most societies are constructed in such a way that women and children have the least power and natural rights and are therefore regarded as weak and powerless. They are especially vulnerable to violence as they are often unable to defend themselves or outrun perpetrators of violence. Lawlessness and violence in wards one and two of Insiza District, as in most parts of the country, are driven mostly by groups of armed young men—often ‘outsiders’, those who are not ordinarily residents of the two wards or from Insiza in general, who appear to act with impunity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139748805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ban mining, ban dining? Re(examining) the policy and practice of ‘militarised conservationism’ on ASM operations 禁止采矿，禁止餐饮？重新审视个体和小型金矿开采活动中的 "军事化保护主义 "政策和做法

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101432

George Ofosu , Daniel Siaw , David Sarpong , Stephen Danquah

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The impact of the mining industry, and its recent functional and spatial fragmentation, on regional labor market performance: The case of Antofagasta 采矿业及其近期的功能和空间分化对地区劳动力市场表现的影响：安托法加斯塔案例

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101431

Manuel Pérez-Trujillo

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