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{"title":"The role of Ethiopian government in promoting corporate social responsibility in mining sector","authors":"Marta G. Bekele ,&nbsp;Judy N. Muthuri ,&nbsp;Mengistu B. Ayele","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101650","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101650","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Corporations as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy provide public goods such as education, infrastructure development and healthcare as a way of addressing social, environmental and governance challenges in the contexts they operate. Their contributions mark the changing roles of companies in providing social welfare that traditionally was considered the principal role of governments. This study examines the role of the Ethiopian government in promoting CSR, taking the mining sector as a case study. Ethiopia is an interesting research context given their unique political history and governance regime. The research is qualitative in nature drawing on public policy, company reports, and interviews with sixteen CSR managers, two government officials and six community representatives. The findings based on thematic data analysis reveal that the Ethiopian government mandate and endorse CSR in the mining sector evident in the legislation developed and the introduction of voluntary initiatives like the Ethiopian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EEITI). However, the effectiveness of the public policy on CSR is questionable due to numerous challenges including a lack of commitment and resources to implement and enforce the law, and a lack of accountability and transparency on the part of the public sector actors. Our paper provides practical implications for government to actively address the implementation challenges through exerting commendable efforts in thoroughly examining the practices at regional level, strengthening the EEITI unit, and fostering coordination among the various institutions implementing the public policy on CSR.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101650"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799798","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 participation beyond the law: Gendered employment in Ghanaian oil and gas companies","authors":"Aba Pepraba Okosu,&nbsp;Austin Dziwornu Ablo,&nbsp;Charlotte Wrigley-Asante","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101663","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101663","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Oil and gas extraction can promote development through inter-sectoral linkages with the broader national economies. Increasingly, there is an emphasis on revenue management and local content laws aimed at fostering extractive sector-led development in African countries due to the neglect of gender dynamics within the sector. This paper examines the factors that influence women employees’ progression into leadership positions in Ghanaian companies in the oil and gas sector using 2 case studies. The findings show gender segregation of work and underrepresentation of women in technical, management, and senior management positions. While underrepresenting women in technical positions is unsurprising, the study shows an equally low representation of women in support roles, often considered a preserve for women. Effectively, there is a stark income inequality between men and women as men dominate the highly paid and strategic positions as compared to women. We argue that while local content laws can promote local participation in the extractive sector, in Ghana, there is a reinforcement of gender asymmetry between men's and women's employment and income. Thus, local content laws must move beyond promoting local participation to ensuring gender-responsive policies and programmes in the oil and gas sector.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101663"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143792824","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":"The political determinants of diversification in resource-rich countries: The case of Mozambique","authors":"Celso M. Monjane","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101661","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101661","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Natural resources have the potential to drive much-needed growth across Africa if they are used as the foundation for diversifying the economy, which is essential for economic development. The promotion of resource-based diversification goes hand in hand with ruling coalitions support for the growth of competitive local industries, enabling domestic businesses to either leapfrog into the value chain of resource sectors or develop capabilities in sectors unrelated to the commodity-leading sector. However, in most resource-rich countries across Africa, ruling coalitions support for diversification is often minimal, if it exists at all, leaving local and infant industries exposed to the vagaries of the market. This raises the question of why ruling coalitions refrain from supporting diversification despite its long-term benefits, and instead choose to maintain dependency on natural resource extraction. This article argues that, while pursuing diversification is economically beneficial, ruling coalitions in resource-rich countries face conflicting incentives that hinder the realization of diversification goals. They must balance providing autonomy to various economic groups and supporting them in developing the capabilities required for diversification, with the political risk of fostering independent centers of economic power that could potentially challenge the regime or support the opposition. Findings suggest that this is the case in Mozambique, where the ruling coalition, in its efforts to secure political longevity, has incentives to keep the private sector under control and underdeveloped, at the expense of using the resource sector to develop a more diversified economic structure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101661"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143792825","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":"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}