Mining and poverty reduction: Transforming rhetoric into reality

Pegg, Scott

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2004.06.006

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“…Bypassing the state through industry-led CSR activities has been criticized as eroding the developmental functions of the state and created dependency on mining companies (Campbell 2012). Instead, best practice CSR activities should reinforce state-led development policy in low income host countries (Newell and Frynas 2007), though this remains poorly implemented (Pegg 2006, Buxton 2012. In response CSR activities are becoming more formalised and industry-regulated in order to promote accountability and effectiveness.…”

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The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

Leventon

Dyer

Alstine

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Globally, the sustainable development agenda is undergoing a process of climatisation. This means that climate change mitigation and adaptation are influencing the design and delivery of development initiatives. This paper explores the extent to which climate governance influences the role and practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in development. We draw on case study evidence from copper mining concessions in Northwestern Zambia in order to examine how CSR activities are adopting norms of climatised development. Our results show that the extractive industries are increasingly initiating CSR activities to align with local livelihoods, and therefore play a key role in climate compatible development (CCD). In addition, they act as context changers through for example, in-migration, which increases pressure on local forest resources. However, these roles go unacknowledged by both industry and government as CSR activities are disconnected from broader CCD priorities. We discuss the positive and negative implications of drawing the extractive industries into the CCD arena. We link to critiques of politicized CSR and consider practical implications, both for the sector and the achievement of climate development goals. We conclude that CSR activities should be seen as a local manifestation of multilevel engagement between the extractive industries and broader development sectors.

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The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

Leventon

Dyer

Alstine

2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…These trends have resulted in a globalisation of social policy, planning and regulation (Hall and Midgley, 2004), where the mining industry, along with its subsequent stream of impacts, is increasingly regulated by international and private sector actors, rather than by the host country or local communities. However, despite the multiplicity of policies and planning frameworks guiding the global mining industry, evidence suggests mining activity continues to cause significant adverse social impacts, and to a lesser extent, some benefits for local communities (Pegg, 2006;Bebbington et al, 2008b;Esteves, 2008;O'Faircheallaigh, 2015a;UNDP, 2014), suggesting a disconnect between policy at the international scale and its application at the local scale.…”

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“…However, as stressed by Bebbington et al (2008b), there is ambiguity in the relationship between the extractive industries and development. Much academic literature has centred on this ambiguity, such as the phenomenon of the resource curse 23 , the role of mining in instigating violence and conflict (notable scholars include Watts, 1983;Nixon, 2011), and how mining alleviates or exacerbates poverty at local and national scales (Lahonne, 2002;Pegg, 2006;Gamu et al, 2015).…”

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“…Lahoone (2002), for example, concludes that "mining broadly contributes to poverty reduction" (p. 69). Meanwhile, Pegg (2006) suggests that "mining is more likely to lead to poverty exacerbation than it is to poverty reduction" (p. 376). Furthermore, Gamu et al (2015) reviewed 52 empirical studies of possible linkages between extractive industries and poverty and discovered that industrial mining was frequently associated with poverty exacerbation, and artisanal mining 24 with poverty reduction.…”

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“…Pegg (2006), Esteves (2008) and Papua New Guinea's UNDP report (2014) document that local communities often bear most of the environmental and social costs of mining, while most of the profits or benefits realised flow elsewhere. In Papua New Guinea, Filer (1999), Macintyre and Foale (2004) and Golub (2006) report an unequal distribution of mine-related benefits in mine-affected communities.…”

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Social impact assessment, social justice and scales of knowledge: exploring the emerging mining industry in Solomon Islands

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This thesis examines power relations in the context of social impact assessment (SIA) as it is applied in the emerging mining industry in Solomon Islands. While the social impacts of large-scale mining in the Global South are well documented, little is known about how and why adverse social impacts continue to occur in the presence of numerous 'best practice' policy and planning tools, including SIA. This raises questions on the efficacy of SIA in identifying, contextualising and mitigating potential social impacts on communities affected by mining activity, particularly on traditional lands inhabited by indigenous peoples.This thesis presents a critical analysis of SIA to provide insight on this disparity in policy and practice, and to enhance sociological understanding on the interplay of globally-driven mining projects, the identification of social impacts, and the role of policy and institutions in cross-cultural contexts. The proposed extraction of nickel in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands, serves as the case study for this analysis. Employing the conceptual frameworks of social justice and political ecology, and drawing on six months' fieldwork in Solomon Islands, qualitative data from individual and group interviews (n=33) and document analysis (n=11) was collected across geopolitical scales -international, national, provincial and local -to compare and analyse perspectives of documents, institutions and people towards SIA and socially just development in the context of potential mining activity. Analysis of these perspectives exposed the extent to which SIA produces, reinforces and/or exacerbates, social injustices.Research findings identified the limits of SIA in: 1) recognising and accounting for indigenous identities and gender roles; 2) the unequal distribution of economic and other resources associated with the development of mining, including the privatisation of land and employment; and 3) representation of project-affected communities through consultation activities associated with SIA, including Free, Prior and Informed Consent. With political ecology as the foundation of this thesis, this thesis argues that these social injustices materialise as a result of a disparity, or mismatch, between knowledge frames across scales.While SIA is bounded to the rhetoric of social justice, consent and participation, this thesis demonstrates that Western expert knowledge and norms are interwoven into the SIA regime, rendering local experiential knowledge marginal. Reflecting this, a multiscale SIA approach is proposed to include consideration of different scales of knowledge systems, iii with outcomes that might assist to mitigate social injustices, such as those identified in this

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New Configuration or Reconfiguration? Conflict in North–South Energy Trade Relations

Williams

2008

North and South in the World Political Economy

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Mining and poverty reduction: Transforming rhetoric into reality

Cited by 214 publications

References 8 publications

The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

Social impact assessment, social justice and scales of knowledge: exploring the emerging mining industry in Solomon Islands

New Configuration or Reconfiguration? Conflict in North–South Energy Trade Relations

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