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{"title":"Moving sand: Sand connections and the role of (truck) transport in sand commodity chains in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Tanzania","authors":"Bert Suykens ,&nbsp;Siyum Adugna Mamo ,&nbsp;Mery Kapito ,&nbsp;Mohammad Atique Rahman ,&nbsp;Christina Shitima","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101652","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101652","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Foregrounding the importance of sand connections to understand sand geographies, this study investigates the overlooked role of transport in sand commodity chains across the Global South, focusing on Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. Through qualitative fieldwork (including more than 150 interviews), it reveals how transport dynamics profoundly shape sand economies by influencing pricing, accessibility, and extraction site selection. It counters common assumptions about the short-haul nature of sand. Truck drivers emerge as pivotal actors who directly link extraction sites to urban markets. The study underscores the need for a nuanced understanding of the impact of transport on sand extraction and distribution. Transport costs emerge as a critical determinant of sand prices, with fuel expenses playing a significant role. Moreover, truck drivers have substantial agency in decision-making as they source sand based on factors such as quality and price. Regulatory practices, including permits and police encounters, present challenges, with bribery and informal arrangements prevalent. This study underscores the multifaceted nature of sand transport, influenced by geographical, regulatory, and economic factors, and the ways in which sand connections are based on the interaction between social relations, infrastructures, and the materiality of sand. It shows that transport can and should play a key role in policy debates on sand governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101652"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143683665","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":"Driving factors for responsible sourcing in Europe: Motivations of renewable energy technology manufacturers","authors":"Marie-Theres Kügerl ,&nbsp;Michael Hitch ,&nbsp;Katharina Gugerell","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101649","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101649","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper highlights the urgent demand for sustainable energy transitions within planetary boundaries while addressing social injustices. This transformation significantly relies on increasing the proportion of renewable energy sources, which requires extensive mining and utilisation of energy transition metals like copper, cobalt, and lithium. Particular concerns arise when Indigenous lands are involved in mining operations, raising issues of human rights and environmental integrity. The European Union and the United States of America have responded to these concerns with legislative measures to enhance supply chain transparency and prevent conflicts stemming from unethical practices. The study aims to explore responsible sourcing efforts among renewable energy technology manufacturers operating in Europe in the context of these regulations and the obstacles they encounter. Through semi-structured interviews with sustainability and procurement managers, the research investigates internal and external drivers for responsible sourcing, identifying altruistic values and regulatory compliance as critical factors. Despite acknowledging the importance of responsible sourcing, supply chain complexity and resource limitations persist. Ultimately, the study suggests that while responsible sourcing initiatives have the potential to promote justice within supply chains, there is a pressing need for holistic approaches to overcome existing barriers and effectively implement sustainable practices across the renewable energy sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101649"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143683666","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":"Decomposing sand mining complexities to chart ocean sustainability narratives and pathways in the coastal zones of Africa","authors":"Matovu Baker ,&nbsp;Raimund Bleischwitz ,&nbsp;Isaac Lukambagire ,&nbsp;Linda A Etta ,&nbsp;Bernard Lutalo","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101646","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101646","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Coastal zones/states of Africa are some of the leading sand-mining and exporting spots globally, a conduit for lucrative socioeconomic transformation. Unfortunately, in Africa, as with most emerging economies, sand mining benefits have not yielded comprehensive socioecological benefits. Rather, sand mining and trade have spiraled into negative externalities that cataclysmically scupper socioecological systems and ocean sustainability targets. The lack of coherent sand mining governance mechanisms and increasing natural resource contestations, proliferated by bumper global sand demand, have further created dire sustainability indicators/ramifications. The externalities have explosive negative effects on coastal and marine ecosystems that sustain livelihoods. These have spilled into unsustainable socioecological outcomes,cremating the avenues for realizing Agenda 2063 of Africa's Ocean Decade and sustainable actions, necessitating urgent redress. This study digs deeper into the literature on sand mining in Africa to kickstart new epochs for sustainable sand mining in Africa that are replicable. A systematic literature review of 2514 peer-reviewed articles and 15 grey literature, including policy documents and reports on sand mining, were explored and analyzed using a bibliometric analysis technique. A bibliometric analysis entailed the uncovering of three key issues (i) sand mining research and policy trends/directions in Africa, including their complexity in tandem with the sustainability trilogy (ii) ramifications of the current sand mining landscape to/on ocean sustainability pillars (social, economic, institutional, scientific &amp;environmental) and (iii) thematic mapping/analysis to highlight the current governance mechanisms (including sustainability issues/gaps therein). Findings revealed that Africa's coastal states are some of the leading sand exporters but lose most of their revenue by reimporting sand from middle or high-income states. Research on sand mining has receded. If it exists, it is led by a few countries and western (developed/richer) institutions/scholars. Increasing sand mining is associated with increase in socioecological vulnerabilities. Africa's coastal regions experiencing unsustainable sand mining are losing critical natural and social livelihood capitals. Governance mechanisms are unsustainable. Few powerful actors (including an emerging network of African oligarchs and foreign companies/individuals), operate or manage the sand-mining value chains. There is limited understanding of the environmental, social, and governance nexus and its relationship to local and global development targets. To chart/regurgitate sustainable narratives for sustainable sand mining, a new pathway called the SSMAP (Sustainable Sand Mining Action Pathway) that has five key interrelated steps has been developed. Localizing the SSMAP and incorporating emerging co-governance pathways in micro-settings could help identify leverage poin","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101646"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629113","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":"When nature is abused: Interrogating Nigeria's Niger Delta crisis of oil exploitation through film","authors":"Aghogho Lucky Imiti ,&nbsp;Chukwuma Anyanwu","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101647","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101647","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prior to the discovery of crude oil in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the region was relatively idyllic, though it had suffered devastation due to colonialism with its attendant human slave trade, ivories, rubber, and palm oil extraction. However, the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities in the region in the 1950s has brought devastating crisis to the point that peace and unity have become an illusion in the area. In the bid to exploit and explore the natural resources, especially crude oil, in the region for survival, man has in a sort of boomerang harmed himself and nature/environment, unmindful that whatever affects nature affects man. The challenge before this research is to illustrate how humans have endangered their lives by being unfair to nature through a critical analysis of <em>Blood and Oil</em> and <em>The Liquid Black Gold</em>. This study is anchored on Howard Bowen's 1953 Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Theory, using the analytical research method. Findings showed that it is not primarily a lack of CSR by the oil companies that operate in the region that is responsible for the crisis in the Niger Delta, but failed leadership at various levels, orchestrated by greed, corruption, and misrepresentation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101647"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143620374","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":"Local perspectives, regional consequences: The socio-environmental impacts of sand harvesting in southern Africa","authors":"M. Smigaj ,&nbsp;D.W. Walker ,&nbsp;S. Tirivarombo ,&nbsp;K. Moreri ,&nbsp;C. Pringle ,&nbsp;J. McCosh ,&nbsp;S.M.T. Mustafa ,&nbsp;N Jovanovic","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>After water, sand is the most exploited resource on Earth, with extraction rates often exceeding the sustainable supply, impacting ecosystems and local communities. Still, there is very little information on the situation in southern Africa, despite the rapid economic growth in the region and associated increase in sand demand. This study aimed to address this gap by identifying the implications of sand extraction on local communities and the ecosystem, drawing upon the perspectives of local stakeholders. Qualitative data collected in Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique through stakeholder interviews, revealed a suite of environmental and social issues surrounding both licensed and unlicensed operations. The experienced negative impacts and benefits were occasionally contradictory in nature, strongly depending on characteristics relating to geography, and the type of sand harvesting activity. We subsequently explored links between experienced benefits, impacts and current regulatory frameworks through development of a Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework, which highlighted that careful mining site selection and adherence to regulations could minimise socio-environmental impacts whilst achieving benefits. The findings of the study provided insights on the main obstacles for alleviating sand harvesting-related impacts and existing knowledge gaps that need to be first addressed to inform the development of more sustainable sand harvesting practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101631"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143609966","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":"Analysis and recommendation of policies to support the energy transition of West Texas energy communities","authors":"Meaghan Anderson ,&nbsp;Joel Hicks","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101627","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During a transition to increased use of clean energy resources, areas known as energy communities that economically depend on the success of the fossil fuel industry may experience more negative impacts than other areas of the nation. This includes the Permian Basin of West Texas, one of the largest areas of oil and natural gas production in the United States. The following analysis investigates policy solutions which could provide support for the communities in this area and avoid such trends as those seen in coal energy communities which have experienced economic hardship due to a changing energy landscape. For the investigation, review of past policy efforts as well as qualitative data analysis is used to determine a set of policy criteria and two policy alternatives to investigate. The first policy suggests the development of new education and retraining programs through community colleges and vocational schools. A second policy alternative considers support for emerging industries, including wind, solar, geothermal, and hydrogen. After comparison against a “business-as-usual” control, the first policy alternative was determined to be more likely to succeed, but certain elements of a policy to develop industry outside the oil and gas energy sector may also be appropriate for policy makers to consider.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101627"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143580692","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":"Political accountability and development in Africa's resource economies","authors":"Rod Alence ,&nbsp;Xichavo Alecia Ndlovu","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101634","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101634","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sub-Saharan Africa has undergone a profound political transformation since the early 1990s. A partial wave of democratization – affecting countries rich in mineral and fuel resources as well as their resource-poor counterparts – gave rise to a variety of political regime configurations. This article explores the joint consequences of natural resources and political regimes for development outcomes. We analyze cross-national data on the social inclusiveness and economic sustainability of development from the early 1990s through the late 2010s. Using regression-based simulations, we show that electoral democracy is associated with better development outcomes irrespective of natural resources. Where resource-rich nondemocracies have performed poorly, the problem lies more in their dearth of democracy than in their wealth of resources. We also show that democracy's advantages operate through mechanisms of political accountability: electoral competitiveness and programmatic (as opposed to clientelistic) parties. Africa's resource-rich democracies have exhibited one mechanism or the other but not both – gravitating toward either competitive clientelism or programmatic dominant parties. We illustrate the challenges of combining electoral competitiveness with programmatic parties using the examples of Namibia, Ghana, and Zambia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101634"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143580691","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":"Evaluating the progress and identifying future improvement areas of mining's contribution to the sustainable development goals (SDGs)","authors":"Yvette Baninla ,&nbsp;Chenyang Wang ,&nbsp;Jian Pu ,&nbsp;Xiaofeng Gao ,&nbsp;Qian Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101637","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101637","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The intersection of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations in the mining sector is underexplored. This review aims to inform policymakers about the mining sector's experience and challenges in implementing SDGs and to encourage further discussions on the evolution of SDGs beyond 2030. It investigates how the mining sector adopts and integrates the SDGs framework into its current practices and matches the findings with an ESG lens. Firstly, we examine the mining sector's progress in achieving these goals based on refined literature. Secondly, we identify areas for improvement guided by the SDGs. Our results show that environmental progress has been made, particularly in renewable energy utilization and efficient water resources management. From a social and governance lens, higher progress has been observed in employment, inclusion, and policy implementation compared to moderate progress in other areas, such as gender equality, community engagement, and investment in local communities. Our study identifies three critical areas that must be prioritized by 2030: the intentional alignment of SDGs into mining operations, greater transparent disclosure of ESG data to all stakeholders, particularly mining communities, and protection of ecologically and culturally sensitive zones. Without them, ESG initiatives will remain fragmented and insufficient.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101637"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551419","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":"Sexual and gender-based violence in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: Implications for African women's socioeconomic empowerment and well-being","authors":"Francis Arthur-Holmes ,&nbsp;Kwaku Abrefa Busia ,&nbsp;Enoch Boafo Amponsah ,&nbsp;Jennifer Dokbila Mengba","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101635","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101635","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the complexities of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Africa, drawing from qualitative interviews with 38 women miners and 9 non-miners in Ghana. Our findings revealed five themes; 1) sex for mining jobs/roles and trading space protection, 2) physical aggression towards women miners during work, 3) sexual exploitations and manipulations, 4) everyday sexual harassment at mine sites: body touching and sexist comments, and 5) emotional/psychological abuse – which underlie women's experiences of SGBV in ASM spaces. These findings have implications for women's empowerment in ASM as discussed in the paper.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101635"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143561764","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":"Mining contestation as an impetus for natural and cultural heritage protection","authors":"Boyd Dirk Blackwell","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101633","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article provides evidence that contestation over mining helps bring attention and protective action for conservation hotspots. Drawing from the experience of several terrestrial and marine sites in Australia and globally, the case is made. Typically, formal protection comes after extractive use of wild areas, organised campaigns directed at companies and their allies, and law court actions. While contestation over mining directs attention to conservation hotspots, commercial and political decisions to allow mining may prevail with irreversible environmental damage. Globally, protected hot spots protect very little of the world's wilderness areas. Reviewing these cases helps design future conservation efforts: There is an urgent need for (1) local to global strategic plans and assessments of wilderness and cultural heritage conservation and ‘coexisting’ mineral resource development; (2) an authoritative international agency to lead negotiations and planning over the inherent trade-offs involved and to document livelihood opportunities, if any, after mining; and (3) a neowilderness movement to balance negotiations given the power of global mining companies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101633"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143551420","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}