Jeffrey Bury

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the presence and nature of social movements has significant influences both on forms taken by extractive industries (in this case mining) and on the effects of this extraction on rural livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the presence and nature of social movements has significant influences both on forms taken by extractive industries (in this case mining), and on the effects of this extraction on rural livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of tropical glaciers of the Cordillera Blanca, Peru, are rapidly retreating, resulting in complex impacts on the hydrology of the upper Rio Santa watershed.

TL;DR: The research demonstrates the pressures that mining expansion has placed on water resources, livelihood assets, and social relationships as a result of institutional conditions that separate the governance of mineral expansion, water resources and local development, and of relationships of power that prioritize large scale investment over livelihood and environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how mining activities are affecting land-tenure patterns and livelihoods in the Cajamarca region of Peru and evaluate how Minera Yanacocha's transnational gold-mining operations are transforming landtenure institutions, land values, and spatial distribution of land-use patterns throughout the region.