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When nature is abused: Interrogating Nigeria's Niger Delta crisis of oil exploitation through film 当自然被滥用：通过电影审问尼日利亚的尼日尔三角洲石油开采危机

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101647

Aghogho Lucky Imiti , Chukwuma Anyanwu

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Local perspectives, regional consequences: The socio-environmental impacts of sand harvesting in southern Africa 当地观点，区域后果：非洲南部采砂的社会环境影响

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101631

M. Smigaj , D.W. Walker , S. Tirivarombo , K. Moreri , C. Pringle , J. McCosh , S.M.T. Mustafa , N Jovanovic

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Analysis and recommendation of policies to support the energy transition of West Texas energy communities 分析并建议支持西德克萨斯州能源社区能源转型的政策

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101627

Meaghan Anderson , Joel Hicks

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Political accountability and development in Africa's resource economies 非洲资源经济的政治问责制和发展

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101634

Rod Alence , Xichavo Alecia Ndlovu

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Evaluating the progress and identifying future improvement areas of mining's contribution to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) 评估采矿业对可持续发展目标（SDGs）贡献的进展并确定未来改进领域

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101637

Yvette Baninla , Chenyang Wang , Jian Pu , Xiaofeng Gao , Qian Zhang

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Sexual and gender-based violence in artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana: Implications for African women's socioeconomic empowerment and well-being 加纳手工和小规模采矿中的性暴力和基于性别的暴力：对非洲妇女社会经济赋权和福祉的影响

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101635

Francis Arthur-Holmes , Kwaku Abrefa Busia , Enoch Boafo Amponsah , Jennifer Dokbila Mengba

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Mining contestation as an impetus for natural and cultural heritage protection 矿业竞争作为自然和文化遗产保护的推动力

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101633

Boyd Dirk Blackwell

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Energy transitions at remote mines: The implications of transitioning to low-carbon electricity generation for Indigenous rights in northern Canada 偏远矿区的能源转型：向低碳发电过渡对加拿大北部土著权利的影响

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101636

Warren Bernauer

{"title":"Energy transitions at remote mines: The implications of transitioning to low-carbon electricity generation for Indigenous rights in northern Canada","authors":"Warren Bernauer","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101636","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101636","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article contributes to scholarly literature about energy transitions, extraction, and social justice with case studies of proposed low-carbon electricity generation for remote mines in Nunavut, Canada. It considers the implications of energy transitions at remote mines for the Indigenous rights of Inuit and Dene. On the one hand, low-carbon electricity generation can disturb wildlife habitat, negatively affecting the ability of Inuit and Dene to exercise their rights to harvest wildlife. On the other hand, Indigenous community and institutional opposition to some forms of low-carbon electricity generation raises questions about the ability of Indigenous peoples to provide or withhold their consent to land uses that may negatively affect their rights. In some cases, compromises between Indigenous communities and extractive industries will be possible. Compromise solutions are more likely to emerge when proponents and regulators consider ecological and Indigenous values when siting energy infrastructure, avoid siting infrastructure in critical wildlife habitat, consult Indigenous communities regarding the type of low carbon electricity generation, and agree to conservative and precautionary measures to mitigate the effects of electricity generation on wildlife.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"23 ","pages":"Article 101636"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143534444","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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Addressing the legacy of past mining in the garden river first nation community: Perspectives and pathways to improve community engagement 解决花园河第一民族社区过去采矿的遗产：改善社区参与的观点和途径

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101630

Kerry Perrault , Effah Kwabena Antwi , David Young , Aaron Jones , Stephanie Seymour

{"title":"Addressing the legacy of past mining in the garden river first nation community: Perspectives and pathways to improve community engagement","authors":"Kerry Perrault , Effah Kwabena Antwi , David Young , Aaron Jones , Stephanie Seymour","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The negative effects of resource extraction have disproportionately affected Indigenous people in Canada. There is an ongoing legacy of environmental damage and infringements of treaty and title rights among Indigenous Nations such as the Garden River Nation, that the government must address. A community engagement project between Natural Resources Canada and the Garden River First Nation community was carried out to gather information about the legacy of past mining activities in this Nation. Thematic categories were collaboratively and manually pulled from the community engagement transcripts to explore the effects of mining on the livelihoods of the people of the Garden River First Nation. The discussion results showed social and environmental concerns about resource extraction, and the community calls for action to be taken to restore abandoned mines that continue to leave a negative legacy for the People, land, and other inhabitants of Garden River. The community also urge the government and industry to make a concentrated effort to understand Indigenous worldviews, perspectives, and philosophies when conducting work that could have adverse impacts on the Indigenous Nations who call the territory home. Recommendations were made for capacity building for Indigenous people to adequately participate in project negotiations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101630"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487832","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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Local perspectives on human rights abuses within Ghana's extractive industries 加纳采掘业侵犯人权的地方视角

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Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101632

Francis Xavier D. Tuokuu , Uwafiokun Idemudia , Raymond A. Atuguba

{"title":"Local perspectives on human rights abuses within Ghana's extractive industries","authors":"Francis Xavier D. Tuokuu , Uwafiokun Idemudia , Raymond A. Atuguba","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2025.101632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper uses local communities’ experiences and perceptions of human rights violations to examine the United Nation's (UN's) \"Protect, Respect and Remedy\"(PRR) Framework for Business and Human Rights in Ghana's extractive industries. Through a combination of semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions with key actors, the research reveals that awareness of the PRR framework in local communities is low, and the extent to which the framework has resulted in better human rights outcomes for community members in extractive sites remains limited. By presenting empirical evidence of human rights violations in both the oil and gas, and the mining communities in Ghana's Western region, the study underscores the urgent need for a comprehensive action to address systemic challenges driving human rights violations, and the need to safeguard the rights and well-being of vulnerable populations affected by natural resources extraction. The article concludes by considering the theoretical and policy implications of its findings and proposes possible strategies to limit human rights abuses within the extractive industries in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"22 ","pages":"Article 101632"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487831","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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