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Sustainable pathways for rural sand mining: Integrating socioeconomic resilience, financial viability and environmental stewardship in Badulu Oya, Sri Lanka 农村采砂的可持续途径：在斯里兰卡Badulu Oya整合社会经济弹性、财务可行性和环境管理

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101744

Sithumini Gunawardhana , Nimila Dushyantha , Gimhani Nipunika , Sandunika Rathnayake , Gayithri Niluka Kuruppu , Panchala Weerakoon , Titus Cooray

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Unpacking the role of non-state actors' discourses in enhancing climate justice in Uganda's extractive industries 揭示非国家行为体的话语在加强乌干达采掘业气候正义中的作用

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101741

Estellina Namutebi , Joost Dessein , Cuthbert Tukundane

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Socioeconomic framework and indicators for assessing cumulative effects of resource development on indigenous nations 评估资源开发对土著民族累积影响的社会经济框架和指标

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101735

Effah Kwabena Antwi , John Boakye-Danquah , Denyse Donna Mary Nadon , Maurice Joseph Kistabish , Tanya Matthews , Akua Nyamekye Darko , Priscilla Toloo Yohuno (Apronti) , Felicitas Egunyu

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System dynamics approach to Indonesia's national tin production planning 印尼国家锡生产计划的系统动力学方法

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101742

Andri Budhiman Firmanto , Dermawan Wibisono , Manahan Parlindungan Saragih Siallagan , Mohammad Zaki Mubarok , Rani Febrianti , Dinda T Andariesta

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Uncertainty in modelling the demand for minerals from the energy sector at a country-level: a case study of Saudi Arabia 国家一级能源部门对矿物需求建模的不确定性：以沙特阿拉伯为例

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101736

Timothy Laing

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Social revolution and mining projects: The potential role of cultural power in transforming mining conflict 社会革命与矿业项目：文化力量在改变矿业冲突中的潜在作用

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101733

Yanina Kowszyk , Mariana Walter , Rajiv Maher , Frank Vanclay

{"title":"Social revolution and mining projects: The potential role of cultural power in transforming mining conflict","authors":"Yanina Kowszyk , Mariana Walter , Rajiv Maher , Frank Vanclay","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101733","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101733","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Latin America has been experiencing numerous mining conflicts, leading to a critical discourse around extractivism and an increase in anti-mining movements seeking social change and to influence policy. Some movements have been successful, others not. Therefore, it is appropriate to consider how resistance to mining could achieve meaningful long-term social change. Despite increasing knowledge about the strategies and political opportunity structures that have helped social movements achieve outcomes, there remains need for better comprehension about how cultural power can be used to enable social change that would lead to reduced power imbalances and inequality. The 2019 social revolution in Chile (often called 18-O after the rally on 18 October 2019) provided an opportunity to analyze social change processes. We investigated, at national and subnational levels, the playing-out of cultural power during the social uprising, specifically in relation to the Dominga mining project. We found that cultural power affected the conflict dynamic and led to significant policy outcomes at the national level (e.g. a process to develop a new constitution and the adoption of the Escazú Agreement) and at the local level (e.g. implementation of a protected area, designation of two new Indigenous communities, and public authorities refusing to grant approval for the Dominga mine). However, the Dominga mining company largely did not change its strategy or behaviour, and arguably hardened its position. This ultimately led to it losing social and political support. We show how cultural power can lead to groundswell transformation with potential to create sustained change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 101733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144679455","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 political ecology of water quality monitoring in Lesotho mining enclaves 莱索托矿区水质监测的政治生态

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101740

Mavis Thokozile Macheka , Anna Mdee , Alesia D. Ofori

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The development of Tunisia’s green transition, actors’ interests, and policy coalitions’ power dynamics 突尼斯绿色转型的发展、行动者的利益和政策联盟的权力动态

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101738

Mohamed Ismail Sabry

{"title":"The development of Tunisia’s green transition, actors’ interests, and policy coalitions’ power dynamics","authors":"Mohamed Ismail Sabry","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101738","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101738","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the pathway of the green transition in Tunisia. It investigates it in terms of it’s a)- extractivity/inclusivity with regard to the typology of interested actors and b)- stability with the help of policy coalition analysis. It also examines the effect of an external shock represented in an authoritarian shift on Tunisia’s green transition pathway. A conceptual and theoretical framework is developed which accounts for three main variables: actors’ interests, comparative power, and coordination capabilities. Then the Tunisian case is analyzed accordingly based on qualitative data obtained from interviews that were conducted in 2022-2023, publicly available quantitative data, and the literature. The findings suggest that the green transition did not proceed in Tunisia as planned in its democratic decade (2011-2021) because of the relative weakness of the pro-transition policy coalition vis a vis the contra-coalition and generally the instability of an extractive pathway in a more democratic society with active societal actors. The external shock of the constitutional coup of 2021 reshuffled power dynamics, coordination, and policy coalitions’ comparative power. Although there is no evidence that it made the pathway more extractive, it relatively stabilized it.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"24 ","pages":"Article 101738"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654613","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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Rethinking mining from extraction to inclusion: Leveraging the Luozi manganese deposit for equitable and sustainable development in the Democratic Republic of Congo 重新思考从提取到包裹的采矿：利用罗子锰矿实现刚果民主共和国的公平和可持续发展

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101739

Innocent Mufungizi

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Navigating the energy transition: International oil company divestments and the stranded asset dilemma in Africa 引领能源转型：国际石油公司撤资和非洲搁浅资产困境

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101737

Sanjo Kazeem Abolarin , Kesha Fevrier , Ahmad Abdulsamad

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