‘Sustainable Mining’? Corporate Social Responsibility, Migration and Livelihood Choices in Zambia

Gilberthorpe, Emma; Agol, Dorice; Gegg, Thomas

doi:10.1080/00220388.2016.1189534

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“…Gilberthorpe et al . () estimated that approximately 4,000 migrants currently reside within the Copperbelt area, in search of minerals. These migrants are engaged in the informal sector, with informal mining being the predominant livelihood activity.…”

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National benefits, local costs? Local residents' views on environmental and social effects of large‐scale mining in Chingola, Zambia

Kolala

Umar

2019

Natural Resources Forum

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This study examined the environmental and social effects of large‐scale mining in Chingola, Zambia. Data was collected through semi‐structured interviews with 164 residents living close to Zambia's largest open pit mine, key informants and desk analysis of secondary data. Quantitative data was analysed using the chi‐square test, one sample T‐test and two sample Z‐proportions test, while qualitative data was analysed using content analysis. Results show that the residents reported being most affected by sulphur dioxide air emissions and noise pollution due to the proximity of the copper smelter and heavy moving machinery to their residences. The residents received domestic water containing rust and copper ore particles from the water utility company which draws raw water from the mine. Although the mine was a source of employment for locals, over 4,000 jobs (representing a 33% decrease) have been lost over a period of 4 years, negatively affecting the local economy. Mine management attributed the job losses to high production costs and mechanization of mining processes. The residents perceived the job losses to have led to crime, alcohol abuse and prostitution among youths as well as a general increase in poverty levels. Analysis of air emissions data from the mine found elevated levels of dust, cadmium, copper and lead pollutants. Key informants from Nchanga Mine reported implementing bioremediation to reduce soil contamination by the heavy metals and recycling SO2 to produce sulphuric acid. The study recommends an increase in social corporate responsibility from the mine management to ensure residents derive more substantive benefits from their proximity to the mine.

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“…This, Gilberthorpe et al . () contended, has brought about high levels of crime and illegal mining. Such social effects of mining are not unique to Chingola.…”

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National benefits, local costs? Local residents' views on environmental and social effects of large‐scale mining in Chingola, Zambia

Kolala

Umar

2019

Natural Resources Forum

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“…One may also find hybridity within larger organizations. This might be a largely commercial organization that seeks in part to deliver development goals through corporate social responsibility actions (Gilberthorpe, Agol, and Gegg 2016), or a public or NGO development agency adopting some business-oriented practices (Brinkerhoff and Brinkerhoff 2015;Girei 2016).…”

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Understanding and managing business—development hybrids: an institutional logics case analysis

Heeks

Malik

Morgan

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Development Studies Research

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There are growing numbers of business-development hybrids that combine a commercial orientation with an intent to deliver development goals. Yet, within development studies research to date, there has been limited conceptualization of these organizations. Borrowing from the extensive literature in other disciplines, this paper argues that the concept of institutional logics can be used as a basis for understanding business-development hybrids. The lens of institutional logics is used to analyze two hybrid case studies of 'impact sourcing' that outsource IT work to disadvantaged groups in Pakistan and India. Synergies between business and development logics were managed by combining those logics, but tensions between the two required techniques of compromising or decoupling the logics. Organizations also managed the logics by presenting a more business-oriented face to clients and a more development-oriented face to workers, by protecting their development logic from commercial pressures, and by seeking to institutionalize both logics. Implications are considered for practice and for future development research.

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“…In Colombia, the industry is formalized around large companies to the detriment of the ASM, which is declining (Franco et al, 2018). Large companies also mine emeralds in Zambia with associated ASM and illegal looting of mines and mine spoil (Gilberthorpe et al, 2016).…”

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A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining Worldwide, Poverty, and the Associated Health Impacts

2021

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Some of the poorest people in the world's poorest countries eke out a living in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Equipped with primitive tools like picks, shovels, buckets, and gold pans, they work mining valuable resources, like gold, diamonds, tin, lithium, rare earth elements, tantalum, and cobalt, and any other usable commodity, for example, sand, coal, or mica. The mining and refining processes are labor intensive and associated with a variety of health problems due to accidents, overheating, overexertion, dust inhalation, exposure to toxic chemicals and gases, violence, and illicit and prescription drug and alcohol addiction. Evident disadvantages with ASM are counterbalanced by the immense economic benefits. For many, the true scope and scale of ASM activities are unappreciated, along with the unknown health and societal impacts. Here, we set out to elucidate the scope of ASM beyond the recovery of familiar commodities, such as gold and diamonds. We adopt a holistic perspective toward health impacts of ASM, which includes unique occupational, environmental, and human/social drivers. A particular focus is poverty as a health risk with artisanal miners. They are commonly poverty-stricken people in poor countries, ensnared by a variety of poverty traps, which take a toll on the health and well-being of individuals and communities. ASM sometimes provides an opportunity to diversify income in the face of a decline in subsistence agriculture. However, ASM often trades one kind of generational poverty for another, coming along with serious health risks and turmoil associated with work in an informal "cash-rich" business. Plain Language Summary Many of the world's most valuable commodities, for example, gold, diamonds, and strategic metals, and less valuable resources, for example, sand, clay, and coal, are the products of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). The miners are commonly poor people with rudimentary tools, like shovels, buckets, and pans subsisting by working shallow ore deposits. Although an inefficient mining method, the large numbers of people can contribute substantially to a country's total production. Much of this mining occurs in distant, lawless areas like the Amazon River basin or the outback in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The work is grueling and dangerous because of violence and unregulated work sites. Miners suffer from the expected collection of occupational health risks, due to, for example, accidents, chemical exposures, dust inhalation, and lifting and lugging of heavy loads. Mining communities are at risk from incidental exposures to mercury, mosquito-borne diseases, poor sanitation, and more. Human and social problems also impact health. Our paper emphasizes poverty as a risk factor for disease, as miners are caught in poverty traps-unable to leave. Injuries and disease often must remain untreated because of costs and absent clinics.

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‘Sustainable Mining’? Corporate Social Responsibility, Migration and Livelihood Choices in Zambia

Cited by 15 publications

References 36 publications

National benefits, local costs? Local residents' views on environmental and social effects of large‐scale mining in Chingola, Zambia

National benefits, local costs? Local residents' views on environmental and social effects of large‐scale mining in Chingola, Zambia

Understanding and managing business—development hybrids: an institutional logics case analysis

A Review of the Scope of Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining Worldwide, Poverty, and the Associated Health Impacts

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