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Why do some communities resist mining projects while others do not
Marta Conde,Philippe Le Billon +1 more
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In this paper, the authors identify and discuss factors affecting the likelihood of resistance to mining projects by local communities and identify the needs for local consent processes, and help inform the creation of no-go areas for mining projects to the mutual benefit of companies, communities, and government authorities otherwise affected by socio-environmental impacts and costly deadlocks.About:
This article is published in The Extractive Industries and Society.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 194 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Corporate social responsibility.read more
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Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
TL;DR: A new political moment is underway as discussed by the authors, and one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct forms of a different political party in different parts of the world. But there are significant differences in how this is constituted in different places.
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Conflict ecologies: Connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the differing conceptualizations and analyses of environmental conflict under the labels of political ecology and peace and conflict studies, and points at opportunities for closer connections between these two fields.
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Deadly Environmental Governance: Authoritarianism, Eco-populism, and the Repression of Environmental and Land Defenders
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of local community and civil society participation to achieve social equity and environmental sustainability goals is emphasized. But, the authors do not discuss the role of local communities in achieving these goals.
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Conceptualizing Company Response to Community Protest : Principles to Achieve a Social License to Operate
Frank Vanclay,Philippe Hanna +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify around 175 actions companies might take in relation to community protest, and discuss how these actions variously have the potential to escalate or de-escalate conflict, depending on whether the company engages in appropriate and genuine interaction with protesters or if repressive measures are used.
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The gold commodity frontier: A fresh perspective on change and diversity in the global gold mining economy
Boris Verbrugge,Sara Geenen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that gold mining, in an attempt to overcome several socio-ecological and socio-political limitations, has expanded outside its historical core into a range of new mining destinations (widening), and has come to rely on an intensification of production through socio-technical innovations (deepening).
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Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
Arun Agrawal,Clark C. Gibson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the conceptual origins of the community, and the ways the term has been deployed in writings on resource use, and analyze those aspects of community most important to advocates for community's role in resource management.