How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century? The unifying experience in all the resource-rich states covered in the book is the social and economic disadvantage experienced by indigenous peoples and local communities, paradoxically surrounded by wealth-producing projects. Another critical commonality is the role of law. Where the imposition of statutory regulation is likely to result in conflict with local people, some large modern corporations have shown a preference for alternatives to repressive measures and expensive litigation. Ensuring that local people benefit economically is now a core goal for those companies that seek a social licence to operate to secure these resources. There is almost universal agreement that the best use of the financial and other benefits that flow to indigenous and local people from these projects is investment in the economic participation, education and health of present generations and accumulation of wealth for future generations. There is much hanging on the success of these strategies: it is often asserted that they will result in dramatic improvements in the status of indigenous and local communities. What happens in practice is fascinating, as the contributors to this book explain in case studies and analysis of legal and economic problems and solutions.
International, National and Local Law Perspectives on REDD+ Maureen F. Tehan, Lee C. Godden, Margaret A. Young, ... 'Roe 8 Delay: The Decision of Save Beeliar Wetlands v Jacob,' Gilbert & Tobin: Insights – WA Resources Update (23 March ...
Legal Change and Impact on Communities Lila Barrera-Hernández, Barry Barton, Lee Godden, Alastair Lucas, Anita Rønne ... Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom (2012). 66 For example, G ...
... community as a result of the development'.219 In addition, business enterprises themselves have noted the challenge ... Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012) ...
Waterton, E., and Watson, S. (2010b) Introduction: A Visual Heritage. In E. Waterton and S. Watson (eds), Culture, Heritage and Representation: Perspectives on Visuality and the Past. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1–18. Watson, S., and Waterton ...
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides a systematic approach to legislation and legal practice concerning energy resources and production in South Africa.
On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia Martin Brueckner, Angela Durey, Robyn Mayes, Christof Pforr ... Environ Polit 20(4):585–589 Brueckner M, Ross D (2010) Under corporate skies: a struggle between people, ...
... Community Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom. London: Routledge. Larson, E. and Aminzade, R. 2007. Nation-states confront the global: Discourses of indigenous rights in Fiji and ...
Drawing on case studies, this book explores how northern communities can capture and distribute a fairer share of financial benefits, how they can use extractive activities for business development, the problems and possibilities of ...
Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826. Perth: University of Western ... Sustainable Management of Mining Operations. Colorado: Society for Mining ... Resource Development and Health in Papua New Guinean Ok Tedi Mines.
Darnell, Invisible Genealogies. 10. Franz Boas Documentary Edition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant, 2012–20. 11. Darnell, “Anthropological Legacy of 'Useful Knowledge.'” 12.