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DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.12.014
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Community–company relations in gold mining in Ghana

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“…Likewise, sustainability reports of mining companies often fail to provide full accounts of conflict situations, but instead use these documents to represent their own perspectives (Garvin et al, 2009). Unsurprisingly therefore, the GRI scheme has little credibility among many critical stakeholders; in their views, it does not necessarily serve as a mobilising agent for affected communities and critical NGOs Dingwerth and Eichinger, 2010).…”
Section: Mining Conflicts and Stakeholder Engagementmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Likewise, sustainability reports of mining companies often fail to provide full accounts of conflict situations, but instead use these documents to represent their own perspectives (Garvin et al, 2009). Unsurprisingly therefore, the GRI scheme has little credibility among many critical stakeholders; in their views, it does not necessarily serve as a mobilising agent for affected communities and critical NGOs Dingwerth and Eichinger, 2010).…”
Section: Mining Conflicts and Stakeholder Engagementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research on mining community conflicts is often biased towards community-level perspectives (e.g. Hilson and Yakovleva, 2007;Holden et al, 2011;Kemp et al, 2011;Yakovleva and Vazquez-Brust, 2012) whereas only a reduced number of studies also document management perspectives on conflicts exposing the arguments of contending parties (Bebbington and Bury, 2009;Garvin et al, 2009) or seeking to discover reporting gaps between disclosure and performance (Adams, 2004 Critical studies on the current mining model in Argentina focus on environmental, economic and ethical concerns, referring to extractivism as a 'loot', emphasising the resistance of local grassroots movements with thick descriptions of the socio-environmental conflicts and discourse analyses (Galafassi, 2008;Robledo and Lumerman, 2009;Rodríguez Pardo, 2009;Solanas, 2007;Svampa and Antonelli, 2009;Walter, 2008). Rather than focussing on mining-related disputes, others stress the positive contributions of mining to economies and society (Jordán et al, 2004;; Secretaría de Minería de la Nación, 2012).…”
Section: Mining Conflicts and Stakeholder Engagementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…CSR requires companies not only to consider the impacts of business activities but also to work with communities to ameliorate those impacts (Garvin et al 2009). …”
Section: Multi-stakeholder Approach In Social Responsibilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, gold mining companies in Ghana have tended to dismiss out of hand the concerns of local communities about water shortages, pollution, and health effects associated with mining (Garvin et al 2009). And even though they may not come to pass, most academic prophecies of doom are inspired by genuine trends of worsening conditions: in the 1960s, many humans were starving, in the 1980s birds were, indeed, in decline in many parts of North America, Snake River salmon runs were disturbingly small in the 1990s, today many fisheries are over-exploited, and species are going extinct.…”
Section: Nature On the Brinkmentioning
confidence: 99%