Ecological distribution conflicts (EDCs) over mineral extraction in India: An overview

Bisht, Arpita; Gerber, Julien‐François

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2017.03.008

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“…In conclusion, we would like to point out that mining is growing around the world, causing serious social and environmental consequences and, thus, causing significant resistance. Bisht and Gerber [70] provided the overview of non-fuel mining conflicts in India. The analysis is based on 100 cases of conflict that occurred between 1992 and 2014.…”

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Capacity to Develop Recycled Aggregate Concrete in South East Asia

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The global sustainable construction aimed to minimize the ecological impacts of constructed facilities’ lifetime. In construction, concretes are the major materials utilized in South East Asia. Thus, it makes environmental and economic sense to utilize recycled materials in the production of new concretes for diverse uses. This review indicated that the practical implementations of the recycled aggregate concretes (RAC) in the area is greatly lacking, even though there are reasonable studies on RAC, particularly because of lack awareness and economic viability of such uses at the present period. This research aims to establish an interdisciplinary consortium with researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and social scientists in Southeast Asia to investigate the development of sustainable, durable, cost-effective, green concrete by utilizing recycled aggregates. Concentrating on waste resource recovery, this research presents an integrated modeling method. The approaches track and forecast a variety of values across technical, economic, social, and environmental areas linking these to the material flow and therefore integrating and building upon one-dimensional models like life cycle assessments (LCAs) and material flow analyses (MFAs). Additionally, the analysis of this study supported the recycling of cement for general use in construction, emphasizing the feasibility, reliability, and longevity of a project at the same time. However, the analysis also demonstrated that although there is fair progress on recycled concrete, there is still a severe lack of appropriate development in particular because of the lack of economic sustainability and knowledge of such applications at present. Raw material conservations were recorded; carbon dioxide costs and footprint were also reduced. Considering the RAC economic, technical, and environmental parameters, frameworks were applied for sustainable selections with target compressive strengths as the major goal.

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Section: Needful Investigations For Future Researchmentioning

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“…These cases account for more than one-tenth of all the environmental justice movements documented worldwide in the EJAtlas. Although this article draws from the EJAtlas, we are aware of other outstanding repositories of documented environmental conflicts and movements in India such as the Green Files, India Environmental Portal and Land Conflicts Watch (Bisht and Gerber 2017).…”

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Environmental Justice Movements in India

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Martínez‐Alier

2019

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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With each passing year, defending land and water, livelihoods and cultures appears to become more violent. Against the alarming number of murders of environmental activists or environmental defenders, which is the easiest way to recognize violence, this article aims to analyse other visible and invisible ways in which violence is manifested. Using a multidimensional approach and referring to case studies from the EJAtlas and other sources, it looks at the multiple manifestations of violence. It concludes that a south-south collaboration in academic-activist coproduced research on environmental justice movements would shed light on realities which often escape mainstream ecological economics and political ecology.

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“…As per a database of 100 (non-fuel) mineral conflicts in India, 67% were accounted for a variety of minerals which fall under the category of development minerals. Despite the smaller scale individual operations, sand extractivism in the past two decades has resulted in the generation of the highest numbers of EDCs in India, representing over 42% of the overall cases documented in the research conducted by Bisht and Gerber (2017).…”

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Discontent, Conflict, Social Resistance and Violence at Non-metallic Mining Frontiers in India

Bisht

2019

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The twenty-first century is witnessing increased extraction of natural resources across the globe, which includes biomass, metal ores and tailings, fossil energy carriers, and industrial and construction materials. Increasing extraction of resources is largely a result of either intensification of extractive operations in existing extractive locations, or as a result of expansion of frontiers of resource extraction to new geospatial locations across the world. Amongst these, extraction of construction materials has been the highest in the last century. This article analyses conflicts surrounding such minerals which are non-metallic, low value, and extracted to a large degree by local or regional extractive agents, with a special focus on the social violence exerted in such conflicts.

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Ecological distribution conflicts (EDCs) over mineral extraction in India: An overview

Cited by 20 publications

References 25 publications

Capacity to Develop Recycled Aggregate Concrete in South East Asia

Capacity to Develop Recycled Aggregate Concrete in South East Asia

Environmental Justice Movements in India

Discontent, Conflict, Social Resistance and Violence at Non-metallic Mining Frontiers in India

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