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{"title":"Governing the Ungovernable? Conceptualising embeddedness in Ghana's gold mining sector","authors":"Augustine Gyan ,&nbsp;Andrea Behrends","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101484","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The term “artisanal” refers to primitive, non-industrial, or pre-industrial handicrafts. Because they contribute less revenue to state agencies, produce lower mineral export volumes, apply less sophisticated technologies, frequently violate mining certification and licensing arrangements and/or evade state oversight, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities are typically viewed less favourably by host governments than large-scale mining. Despite commitments to render ASM governable, formalisation practices overlook specific dynamics in the sub-sector: notably, the increasing uptake of advanced technologies, its multi-actor nature, and its untold capacity to create employment opportunities and provide adequate raw materials for the domestic jewellery industry. Moreover, unsanctioned mining activities persist despite formalisation efforts. Based on an extensive qualitative study and institutional-level interviews, this article highlights the inevitable complementarities between large-scale mining and ASM. It reveals collaborations between diverse formal and informal actors and institutions that enable and constrain responsible mining in Ghana. It also shows how ASM, and large-scale mining interdependencies maintain each mining scale's operational efficiency and profitability, contributing to this blurring. To grasp the governance challenges in Ghana's gold mining sector, we introduce the “mining-scale embeddedness” framework, focusing on institutional, operational, and actor levels of embeddedness to elucidate dilemmas surrounding gold mining governance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 101484"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000820/pdfft?md5=a29c2d85b6c5849d4ccc2b55a2050353&pid=1-s2.0-S2214790X24000820-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424395","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":"Beyond free trade in raw materials: Reconciling international trade rules with planetary boundaries","authors":"Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy ,&nbsp;Daria Boklan","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>International trade rules enshrined in agreements like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) promote free trade, with exceptions for environmental protection. This paper explores the tension between these rules and Earth Systems Science's concept of planetary boundaries, which define environmental tipping points beyond which humanity faces irreversible harm. We analyse GATT's provisions, particularly Article XI's prohibition on trade restrictions and Article XX's exceptions, through the lens of planetary boundaries. Our analysis argues that current interpretations of these articles are inadequate to address the environmental impact of raw material trade. We further examine the concept of permanent sovereignty over natural resources, which grants states autonomy over resource exploitation and trade. We posit that planetary boundaries are not a restriction on sovereignty but a call for modifying state trading behaviour and consequently how international trade rules is structured and interpreted. This analysis demonstrates the complexity of transforming the legal landscape necessary for a global just energy transition, a response to climate change that requires aligning international trade with environmental sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 101481"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000790/pdfft?md5=52b30ac4f5190f129ab7516b2ae51cda&pid=1-s2.0-S2214790X24000790-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141313779","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":"Breaking the hierarchy: Exploring intersectional employment strategies in the Australian mining industry for Indigenous women","authors":"Joni Parmenter ,&nbsp;Sharlene Leroy-Dyer ,&nbsp;Sarah Holcombe","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101480","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Australian mining industry is male and non-Indigenous dominated. Indigenous women continue to perceive themselves as occupying the bottom position on the mine site hierarchy. They experience both racism, sexism, and additional burdens to their male counterparts. Indigenous women have resisted and supported each other against racism including creating formal networks across Australia. It is unknown what, if anything, the industry is doing to break down this hierarchy. Given Indigenous employment data is not typically disaggregated by gender, the cohort has remained largely overlooked in terms of policy or strategy aimed at this group. This paper takes an intersectional approach to understanding what employment policy and practice may assist in dismantling the hierarchy. Qualitative research identified three major themes requiring action: Managing intersectional pressures at work; Intersectionality and career opportunities; and Intersectional risks at work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 101480"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000789/pdfft?md5=dbed4ae6114ac22fa4e80021841bd900&pid=1-s2.0-S2214790X24000789-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141313778","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":"How do institutional frameworks influence socio-ecological systems? The case of natural gas development in Mtwara region, Tanzania","authors":"Pius Z. Yanda ,&nbsp;Victoria H. Moshy ,&nbsp;Brown Gwambene ,&nbsp;Anselm R. Mwajombe ,&nbsp;Samwel Kamoyo","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101473","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the crucial influence of institutional frameworks in shaping the resilience of Social-Ecological Systems (SES), focusing on the challenges and opportunities arising from natural gas development in Tanzania's Coastal Area. Despite the economic promise of natural gas discovery and exploitation, managing associated environmental and societal impacts remains a significant challenge. The study uses qualitative methods (key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and field observations) and quantitative data (household questionnaire survey) to analyze governance, institutional capacity, resilience, sustainability, coping mechanisms, and coastal resources management. Applying thematic content analysis to qualitative data identifies critical factors in governance, institutional capacity, relationships among resilience, sustainability, coping mechanisms, and coastal resources management. The study utilized SPSS 20 for quantitative data analysis, incorporating descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. The findings emphasize governance systems' critical role in promoting societal well-being and resilience to social-ecological changes. Nevertheless, the identified limitations in addressing environmental concerns, including fostering community involvement and ensuring transparency, highlight the need to increase levels of participation from local communities in inclusive and participatory decision-making in project areas. Transparent communication, access to information, and capacity building emerge as crucial for building trust and garnering support. Recommendations include advocating inclusivity, safeguarding local institutions, crafting adaptive governance systems, emphasizing the importance of responsiveness to emerging issues, and robust monitoring and evaluation systems. Concrete natural resource management, particularly in natural gas development, is deemed vital to ensure equitable resource allocation, rectify disparities, and enhance sustainability for the SES in the Coastal Area. This study serves as a guiding framework for regions facing similar resource development challenges, emphasizing the imperative of environmental sustainability for a prosperous future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 101473"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141313777","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":"Economic and socio-ecological effects of sand mining on livelihoods in the Gomoa East District and Ga South Municipality, Ghana","authors":"Kofi Yeboah Asare ,&nbsp;John Victor Mensah ,&nbsp;Joseph Agyenim Boateng ,&nbsp;Emmanuel Yamoah Tenkorang ,&nbsp;Katharina Hemmler","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is a surging rate of sand mining worldwide, fuelled by rapid urbanisation and escalating demand for housing and other infrastructure. In Ghana, most residents of sand mining areas are employed in land-based livelihoods, particularly farming. This study examines the effects of sand mining on the livelihoods of the residents in selected communities in the Gomoa East District and Ga South Municipality. The study used a concurrent mixed-methods approach to collect quantitative data from 278 household heads, qualitative data from 30 key informants, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) sessions with women and youth associations. Statistical Product and Service Solutions, version 21, was used to analyse the quantitative data, while NVivo 12 was used to analyse the qualitative data. The results indicate that sand mining in the study communities had negatively affected the livelihoods of most residents, while the positive effects accrued to the sand miners and truck drivers who were non-residents of the mining communities. It is recommended that policymakers, regulators, and local leaders should address unsustainable sand mining to secure livelihoods in the communities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 101487"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141291403","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":"Bibliometric analysis of sustainable supply chain management in the oil and gas industry: A review and research agenda","authors":"Hadi Sahebi ,&nbsp;Farnaz Barzinpour ,&nbsp;Hani Gilani","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101483","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The projected 1.20 % annual increase in global energy demand and the expected global population reaching 9 billion by 2030 present a compelling opportunity to develop significant models for incorporating sustainability into oil and gas Supply Chain Management, garnering substantial interest from both practitioners and researchers. The primary objective of this study is to visualize and conduct a comprehensive bibliometric evaluation of 7394 publications relevant to sustainable supply chain management in the oil and gas industry, extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) database spanning the years 1978–2021. By undertaking this extensive bibliometric analysis, this work unveils insights that previous assessments on this subject have not fully captured or examined. The comprehensive mapping of the field provides a graphical representation of the publication history over time, enabling the identification of current research areas and potential topics for future investigation. The findings serve as a valuable guide for leading future research endeavors in the domain of sustainable supply chain management. The results reveal that the authors have focused on three primary topics, which we have identified as leading topics: \"Greenhouse gas Emissions,\" \"Life-Cycle Assessment,\" and \"Sustainability.\" Additionally, we have pinpointed emerging fields in SSCM through our analysis, with four topics investigated in recent studies: \"Green Fuel,\" \"Carbon Management,\" \"Industry 4,\" and \"Circular Economy.\" We anticipate that this study will provide scholars and practitioners with a comprehensive perspective on sustainable supply chain management in the oil and gas industry. It presents questions for future consideration for researchers, thereby contributing to a deeper understanding of the field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 101483"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000819/pdfft?md5=bd0bd4905815f2993820af78660df18d&pid=1-s2.0-S2214790X24000819-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141241865","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":"The political ecology of justice outcomes of lithium mining: The case of Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina","authors":"Melisa Escosteguy ,&nbsp;Carlos Ortega Insaurralde ,&nbsp;Walter Fernando Díaz Paz ,&nbsp;Christian Brannstrom ,&nbsp;Martín Alejandro Iribarnegaray ,&nbsp;Marc Hufty ,&nbsp;Lucas Seghezzo","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101477","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electromobility and lithium-ion batteries are seen as key for the global energy transition, but injustices have been identified in several stages of the life cycle of electric vehicles, particularly in the resource extraction stage. Little is known about the micropolitics driving the acceptance or contestation of lithium mining by communities directly affected by this activity in the highland Andes of South America. In this paper, we explore complaints and demands made by communities living near Salar del Hombre Muerto, a salt flat in the Argentinian province of Catamarca where lithium has been extracted for decades. Having collected ethnographic data from conversations with affected communities and during public meetings and hearings, we applied a coding process using political ecology and energy justice conceptual frameworks. This led to the identification of place-based complaints and demands associated with distributive, procedural, and recognition justice. We further discuss our findings in terms of recent literature on lithium mining to provide explanations of the justice outcomes identified. Although lithium mining may not be the sole cause of (at least some of) these injustices, it nevertheless generates expectations and catalyzes attempts to end marginalization in areas where local and regional institutions are incapable of doing so.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 101477"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141314704","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":"Unpacking policy termination: A multi-factor analysis of industrial project termination near Wanshouyan, China","authors":"Yuning Jiang,&nbsp;Jinghan Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101476","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Policy termination, as a part of the policy process, is a vulnerable component in practice and a long-neglected issue in policy science research. This study focuses on policy termination and constructs an analytical framework of “characteristics-environment-institution-actors” to conduct a case study of industrial project termination near the Wanshouyan prehistoric site in China. It compares the two phases evident during the past half century. This study discusses the factors influencing policy termination by analyzing why Wanshouyan's first phase industrial projects succeeded in their termination, while those in the second phase failed. This study argues that policy termination is subject to the collective influence of multiple variables, encompassing the inherent characteristics of the policy, environmental factors, institutional factors, and actors. Furthermore, political potential energy is crucial in driving termination through the superimposed effect of multi-variable factors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 101476"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141132334","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":"Redundancies, layers, and dilemmas: Comparing private standards and public regulations in lithium mining","authors":"Teresa Kramarz ,&nbsp;Maria Victoria Arias Mahiques ,&nbsp;Tomas Allan ,&nbsp;Melisa Escosteguy ,&nbsp;Donald Kingsbury ,&nbsp;Lucas Seghezzo","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101479","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An expanding array of transnational Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards has emerged to mitigate harms across critical minerals supply chains. This proliferation of international, private governance standards is interacting with domestic, public regulations guiding mining activity in resource rich states. When private and public requirements duplicate, overlap, or diverge they can create inconsistent processes, administrative burden, and dilemmas through a patchwork of basic components in supply chain management (Cashore et al., 2021). Applying a typology of interactions between private authority and public policy to lithium mining in Argentina, we argue that private/public rules are loosely complementary in some respects and independently coexisting in others. Comparing a rigorous private standard, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), to public regulations we find that both include similar provisions for environmental protection and public participation . IRMA provides better protections for indigenous peoples’ participation, though it lacks significant enforcement mechanisms. Questions remain over the private sector's ability to guarantee – in practice – the rights of indigenous and other affected communities, or to protect ecosystems in the rush for critical minerals. Resulting governance dilemmas illustrate an increasingly crowded regulatory space in lithium mining that indiscriminately presumes public regulatory gaps, while it privatizes accountability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 101479"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X24000777/pdfft?md5=86af3745734d84c450f611a5fc8ddc2f&pid=1-s2.0-S2214790X24000777-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141097745","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":"Perspective on Artisinal and Small-scale gold Mining: Ecological and Socio-economic Inovation","authors":"Ying Zhang ,&nbsp;Mirzat Ullah ,&nbsp;Aytan Merdan","doi":"10.1016/j.exis.2024.101444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Global aspirations for stringent mercury regulations have not been translated effectively in Russia, largely due to the emergence of new domestic cinnabar mining ventures. These initiatives have increased locally sourced mercury, reducing its cost and undermining efforts to curtail its use. This study employs Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA) within an environmental finance framework to rigorously assess the challenges associated with mitigating mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) in Russia. The sampling period for the research spans from June to September 2018 in the Krasnoyarsk Krai area, comprising Yeruda and Chebyzhek villages in the Kurakhinsky district and Abalatskoye village in the Minusinsky district. The paper investigated these complexities using SMAA to identify the multifaceted challenges in implementing the Minamata Agreement, a global treaty committed to regulating and curtailing mercury use. The findings revealed that mercury management is associated with various socioeconomic factors, labor relations, and power structures that have collectively hindered mercury-free practices in gold mining. Therefore, this study highlighted the critical need for a holistic, sustainable economic framework by incorporating new insights into the societal metabolic functions of dynamic mineral finance. Utilizing SMAA within the specific context of native employment conditions, the authors challenged the prevailing norms and offered robust, data-driven strategies aimed at reducing or eliminating mercury usage in ASGM.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47848,"journal":{"name":"Extractive Industries and Society-An International Journal","volume":"18 ","pages":"Article 101444"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141083639","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}