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{"title":"Occupational health management in the Era of large-scale Copper mining in Chile: A historical analysis of silicosis mortality, 1940–1990","authors":"Wenxuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101660","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101660","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The health impact of mining remains an insufficiently explored topic. Historical research on silicosis, a common occupational disease caused by inhaling silica dust, is still limited on Chile as well as globally. This study introduces silicosis mortality as a quantitative indicator for analyzing long-term trends on national and regional scales in Chile, despite methodological challenges. It also conducts a qualitative analysis of the impact of technical and institutional changes that accompanied the emergence of large-scale copper mining and labor regulation. The findings indicate that silicosis mortality aligns both temporally and geographically with shifts in the large-scale copper mining sector, highlighting the complex interactions between the state and this economically vital industry. The challenge of managing silicosis exemplifies the dilemma faced by economies reliant on raw material exports in addressing the social consequences of extractivism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101660"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758942","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}

{"title":"Expectations for meaningful free, prior, and informed consent: an exploration by the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation","authors":"Emily Martin ,&nbsp;The Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation ,&nbsp;Ben Bradshaw","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101653","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101653","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indigenous self-determination plays an increasingly prominent role in lands and resources development decisions. One way of operationalizing self-determination is through the realization of free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) for development impacting Indigenous Peoples and their lands, as recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples (UNDRIP). In the Yukon, Canada, where some consent and consent-like rights are held by First Nations, few First Nations have formally articulated their expectations for the meaningful expression of their consent. This paper begins to address this gap based on a case study by the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation (LS/CFN), a self-governing, Northern Tutchone Yukon First Nation located proximate to past, present, and potentially future mineral development. Though LS/CFN's expectations of FPIC are not formalized today, this exploratory research presents that LS/CFN participants expect: early engagement; to be fully informed; space for self-defined internal processes; ongoing engagement with proponents and the Crown; mitigation of resource barriers; enforceability of commitments; contextually relevant processes; appropriate representation; agreed upon definitions of terminology; mitigation of power imbalances; and mutual agreement on the consent process itself. More broadly this article makes a case for a covenantal, rather than a solely contractual, approach to make FPIC meaningful.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101653"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758941","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}

{"title":"","authors":"Dhilal Ahmad Sobarudin,&nbsp;Muhammad Reza Priansyah,&nbsp;Muhamad Wawan","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101657","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101657","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101657"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143746521","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}

{"title":"Resident support for financial incentives in domestic mineral extraction: Evidence from an experimental survey in major US mineral-producing states","authors":"Mahelet G. Fikru ,&nbsp;Nhien Nguyen ,&nbsp;Kwame Awuah-Offei","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101659","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101659","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several jurisdictions deploy a variety of policy incentives to strengthen the domestic supply chain of minerals and metals needed for the energy transition. However, the public's stance towards using financial incentives (e.g., tax credits) to promote domestic mining and mineral extraction is poorly understood. We administered an experimental survey on 1850 US residents in the top five mineral-producing states: Arizona, Nevada, Minnesota, California, and Texas. The five states are leaders in non-fuel mineral production value, representing regions which stand to benefit the most from mining activities and hence residents’ sentiments could shape policy discussions. Our goal is to understand factors that drive support for policies that promote innovative mineral extraction technologies. The experimental design enables us to study whether individuals would support mining policies when provided with additional information that the incentives would promote environmentally friendly or cost-effective technologies. The survey shows that (1) 58 % of all respondents would support policies promoting innovative mining technologies, (2) 69 % prefer minerals to be sourced from environmentally and socially responsible sources, while 15 % preferred domestic sources, and (3) only 10 % are familiar with energy transition minerals. Regression results suggest that concern for environmental impacts, lack of trust in the mining industry, and preference for using private rather than government funds, would reduce the extent of support for policies that use financial incentives to promote innovative mining technologies. Factors correlated with a higher level of support are ambition for the country's global position in energy transition, mineral independence, and preference for domestic mineral sourcing. Individuals in the treatment group provided with additional information that financial incentives would promote environmentally friendly mining technologies have a higher extent of support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101659"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739930","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}

{"title":"Parting the fog of war: Assessing military greenhouse gas emissions from below","authors":"Reuben Larbi ,&nbsp;Benjamin Neimark ,&nbsp;Kirsti Ashworth ,&nbsp;Kali Rubaii","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101654","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101654","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The world's militaries account for up to 5.5 % of total global greenhouse emissions, yet there is still no requirement for governments to report these emissions in international climate agreements. Researchers are therefore left on their own to assess military emissions. This may seem like an incredibly daunting task. The lack of data is even more stark during periods of conflict, where reporting is relatively non-existent. This article sets out a novel framework for examining greenhouse gas emissions from military supply chains including situations where emissions data are difficult to acquire due to supply chain complexity, or when data are purposefully held back under the guise of national security. We provide an empirical study of supply chain-based carbon from the US military's use of concrete during the Second Iraq War (2003–08) to demonstrate its practicability. Concrete has a massive carbon footprint, and the US military uses a lot of it for protective walls, checkpoints, bases and bunkers. This work provides the tools to measure carbon embodied in military supply chains reinforcing recent calls for standardised frameworks emphasising the accounting of military environmental infrastructure footprints.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101654"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739912","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}

{"title":"Lithium dynamics. Global trends and local spatializations","authors":"Marie Forget ,&nbsp;Vincent Bos ,&nbsp;Manuel Prieto ,&nbsp;Ana Estefanía Carballo","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101651","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101651","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this special issue, we aim to open a debate to critically examine the contradictory roles of lithium in the energy transition at various scales. The articles in this issue emphasize the interrelations between markets and the environmental, social, economic, and geopolitical dimensions of the lithium industry. Through case studies from the Global South and North including Chile, Bolivia, Portugal, Canada, Australia, the United States, the UK and Zimbabwe, the articles highlight the contested landscapes of lithium extraction and production and how these increasingly multiply, become both similar and dissimilar, if not unequal. They reveal both the material realities of lithium's role in decarbonization processes and the expectations and imaginaries that shape its governance and industrial strategies. From tensions arising from environmental imaginaries and notions of green extractivism, this special issue seeks to open a debate about the geographies of power, opportunities, and impacts that characterize lithium's central role in the energy transitions. In doing so, we question the promises of development and sustainability associated with lithium. Ultimately, we present an academic discussion on lithium framed within the broader socio-technical and geopolitical contexts in which it unfolds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101651"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143714797","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}

{"title":"Aluminum resource entitlements realignment: Empowering non-resource nations through listed mining company shareholding","authors":"Jianan Wang ,&nbsp;Wei Fang ,&nbsp;Haizhong An ,&nbsp;Shuai Ren ,&nbsp;Ziyu Meng ,&nbsp;Junjie Shen","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101658","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101658","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aluminum, as a strategic mineral resource, plays a critical role in the development and strategic maneuvers of major nations. Owing to the uneven distribution of aluminum mines, countries seek to expand their national mineral resource entitlements through various economic mechanisms. Shareholding relationships reveal intricate economic ties between nations, offering a novel analytical angle for examining national mineral resource dependence and economic influence. This paper is based on shareholding relationships and constructs a global aluminum resource bipartite shareholding complex network from a listed mining company shareholding perspective, uncovers shareholders and their national affiliations, and discusses the impact of shareholding relationships on the global aluminum resource entitlements structure and community distributions. Our findings indicate that domestic shareholders hold the most of aluminum resource entitlements. Over 90 % of aluminum resource entitlements are concentrated in ten countries, with Australia and Indonesia holding the highest entitlements ranks. Aluminum resource entitlements are influenced by factors such as resource endowment, technological level, and economic activity. Investment in foreign shareholdings can increase the resource entitlements of countries with insufficient resource endowments. The United States, for example, has elevated its aluminum resource entitlements ranking through extensive foreign investments. Our research extends the theory of resource entitlements and provides significant academic contributions and practical guidance for ensuring resource supply security and promoting effective international resource management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101658"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705561","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}

{"title":"Lost in the dust: Institutional perspective of the mining disasters and surrounding communities in environments with institutional voids","authors":"Cinara Gambirage ,&nbsp;Jaison Caetano da Silva ,&nbsp;Carmen Pires Migueles ,&nbsp;Marco Tulio Fundão Zanini","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101655","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101655","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although scholars have dedicated their efforts to analyzing technical risks in the extractive industry and a body of research has generated impressive insights into these risks, continued tailings dam disasters suggest critical aspects are being disregarded and there are significant gaps that need filling. In this study, we attempt to progress our understanding of how institutional voids affect the way in which mining firms manage the risk of tailings dam failures and the resulting impacts on surrounding communities. Considering the context of a traditional and key mining producer globally, we examined the two largest tailings dam failures in the history of the mining industry and their impact on a community located near where the two spills occurred, which is now facing the imminent risk of two further tailings dam failures upstream of the village. We adopted a triangulated approach and performed an extensive document analysis of dam failures and, 209 interviews, over two years, with subgroups of local people and related actors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101655"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143705562","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}

{"title":"Do natural resources determine Chinese education aid? A subnational analysis of Chinese aid to Africa","authors":"Dickson David Agbaji ,&nbsp;Itunu Grace Ishola ,&nbsp;Adams Bodomo","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101648","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101648","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since launching the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation in 2000, China has become Africa's top trading partner and the continent has obtained the largest share of Chinese development aid, including education projects. However, many attribute Chinese aid chiefly to natural resource extraction, oversimplifying the multifaceted nature of Africa-China ties. This study investigates whether and how Africa's natural resources influence Chinese aid allocations, adopting an instrumental variable design relying on the availability of the geospatial and disaggregated information of Chinese projects, oil and gas fields, and mines for 19 African countries. We find that natural resource endowment does not significantly raise the exposure and scale of Chinese education aid commitments in subnational areas. However, our results demonstrate that existing education capacity vis-à-vis the years of schooling and other localized factors like geographic size, population density, capital city, malaria incidence, and prior World Bank aid raise the likelihood of receiving Chinese aid, while higher migration rates significantly decrease it. We argue that China's focus on education development and strategic investments in human capital across Africa may explain these patterns, though a selection bias persists, with aid overlooking remote and impoverished areas, attributable to political considerations on the part of China and beneficiary governments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101648"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143683667","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}

{"title":"Multi-stakeholder dialogue and company-community relations in Ghana's oil and gas sector","authors":"Asaah S. Mohammed ,&nbsp;Francis Xavier D. Tuokuu ,&nbsp;Nathan Andrews","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101656","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101656","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the perceptions of citizens in six coastal districts within Ghana's Western Region regarding the multi-stakeholder dialogue process and its outcomes through the work of the Western Region Coastal Foundation (WRCF). Employing a multidisciplinary, mixed-methods approach, the research reveals divergent opinions among stakeholders who participated in the dialogue sessions. While some stakeholders appreciated the platform as an avenue to voice their expectations and grievances, others criticized it as mere talk without delivering tangible benefits from oil revenues. This disparity stems partly from the assumption that the dialogue platform provides a level playing field for all participants, with aligned incentives and interests. However, stakeholders have varied expectations and incentives, underscoring the importance of acknowledging the agency of participants and the power dynamics that shape engagement processes. The study concludes by recommending that future research focus on identifying effective strategies that may help achieve supposedly ‘win-win’ outcomes between oil and gas companies and host communities, with particular attention to the perspectives of local actors who are often presumed to automatically benefit without a clear understanding of the mechanisms through which such benefits are realized.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101656"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143683668","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}