Socioeconomic value creation and the role of local participation in large-scale mining projects in the Arctic

Kadenic, Maja Due

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2015.04.010

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“…More positive examples were raised also, where companies took a more proactive and constructive approach. As Kadenic (2015) concluded in an examination of large-scale Arctic mining projects, the degree of local involvement during the planning phase will directly affect future socioeconomic outcomes. From siting decisions to projected habitat destruction, the Sami people can therefore help developers achieve common outcomes.…”

Section: Results 3: Procedural Justice and Due Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy justice in the Arctic: Implications for energy infrastructural development in the Arctic

McCauley

Heffron

Pavlenko

et al. 2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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The development of energy infrastructure in the Arctic poses serious far reaching justice based questions for local, regional and international communities. Oil and gas rigs, renewable energy sites, shipping and transportation all force us to reflect on how fair and equitable infrastructural expansion is locally and globally. We examine the justice claims of business, government and civil society in an attempt to understand current problems, and their likely solutions. The results suggest that we need to replace the current stakeholder-centred approach of energy policy, with one based upon justice. A widening of procedural justice to include not only the co-production of decisions, but also knowledge should be complemented with new ways of recognising the vulnerabilities of misand under-represented people, as well as exploring the sensitivities around proximity to new energy infrastructures.

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Section: Results 3: Procedural Justice and Due Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy justice in the Arctic: Implications for energy infrastructural development in the Arctic

McCauley

Heffron

Pavlenko

et al. 2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Environmentally, this includes acid-mine drainage (Søndergaard, Elberling, and Asmund 2008), persistent chemical pollution of Arctic waters and lands (Norstrom et al 1998), and toxic gas and aerosol concentrations that contribute to so-called Arctic haze (Shindell et al 2008). Economic issues are related to economic benefits to society, including employment, business creation, multiplier effects, and tax and revenue distribution (Kadenic 2015;McMahon and Remy 2001). Social issues associated with mining include occupational health and safety and the wider social disturbance of the host community (Carvalho 2017;Kristoffersen and Langhelle 2017;McMahon and Remy 2001).…”

Section: Case Study: Isua Mine Greenlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

A sustainable Arctic: Making hard decisions

Trump

Kadenic

Linkov

2018

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

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The Arctic is experiencing substantial increases in human activity in areas ranging from fossil fuel and mineral extraction to transport along Arctic waterways. Such actions may yield new sources of economic benefits and further objectives to promote national defense, yet they may also generate potential risks to the Arctic environment. As such, concerns from various stakeholders have been raised regarding how to make Arctic operations better meet sustainability goals and balance defense and economic objectives with environmental degradation. This article describes how decision analytical tools, such as multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), may help identify policies and project proposals that minimize the potential for environmental degradation within a framework of maximizing economic, industrial, and defense objectives. Specifically, MCDA conducts value tradeoffs to assess the utility of various decision alternatives against disparate criteria; for this case, this includes the evaluation of Arctic operation sustainability. This article demonstrates through an example of industrial mining in Greenland how MCDA might serve as a tool to guide uncertain decisions for various Arctic projects, and potentially indicate opportunities to structure such projects to provide greater sustainability for their longer-term operations.

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“…This article intends to study the emotional labour with a special focus on partnership, emotions and filtration, while visiting affective scenes and sites related to the mining of Greenland's minerals. The literature on extractivism is extensive (Kirsch, 2014;Veltmeyer & Petras, 2014) and yet, it sometimes overlooks the Arctic region (Kadenic, 2015;Kröger, 2019;Keeling & Sandlos, 2015) (and, most of all Greenland). Just recently, academic work has been published on the tensions and societal aspects of Greenlandic mining (see Ackrén, 2016;Jørgensen 2017;Hansen, Vanclay, Croal & Skjervedal, 2016;Nuttall, 2015;Thisted, 2019;Tiainen, 2016;Sejersen 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Stories, emotions, partnerships and the quest for stable relationships in the Greenlandic mining sector

Bjørst

2020

Polar Record

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This study aims to understand the emotional labour and relationship building in connection to the expected mining industry in Greenland. Greenland mining is often portrayed as something that could create an economic basis for national independence which makes politicians curious about what a potential “partnership” could make possible. Envisioning future relationships (in debates about mining in Greenland) also set the framework for reinterpretation and redefinition of the past, to give meaning to promised new development; hence, this kind of future-making tends to be contested. The analysis centres around stories of what could be (if Greenland really was a place of mining), and the theoretical framework makes use of Ahmed’s and Wetherell’s interpretations of affective economies. Thus the study discusses emotional labour with a special focus on partnership, emotions and filtration, while visiting affective scenes and sites related to the mining of Greenland’s minerals. Greenland’s current position as a state in formation, while still reconciling with experiences from the past, affects relationship building, the openness to flirtation, and sometimes creates conflicts and hieratical structures between the potential partners to be.

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Socioeconomic value creation and the role of local participation in large-scale mining projects in the Arctic

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

Energy justice in the Arctic: Implications for energy infrastructural development in the Arctic

Energy justice in the Arctic: Implications for energy infrastructural development in the Arctic

A sustainable Arctic: Making hard decisions

Stories, emotions, partnerships and the quest for stable relationships in the Greenlandic mining sector

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