What to do when the mining company comes to town? Mapping actions of anti-extraction movements in Sweden, 2009–2019

Fjellborg, Daniel; Lindahl, Karin Beland; Zachrisson, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102514

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“…The most common sensitive issue related to land use as a cause for disputes is a PA (Table 2), which is present in all the studied cases, followed by a water system with or without cottages, reindeer herding, a tourism destination, and uranium. Commodities (e.g., uranium, coal, sulfides) may also create MMEDs in Europe and Latin America [11,13,96].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…NIMLA cases show the influence that cottage owners and tourists may have on MMEDs in Finland. Tourism has also been highlighted as a reason to oppose mining elsewhere, with allegations that tourism would be harmed by mining (e.g., [11,13,[97][98][99]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding Hannukainen, Sakatti, and Sokli, reindeer herding is also a cause for dispute. Reindeer herding is also a cause for MMEDs in northern Sweden, where the issue is related to indigenous Sámi people [13]. Even though Hannukainen, Juomasuo, and Sokli are not located within PAs, their proximity to PAs has been considered as a reason for opposition [61,76,92].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, according to [56], there are also communities that do not resist mining. It is common to resist when a threat to health or livelihood is perceived, and the associated land use can have a crucial role in this perception [7][8][9]13,15].…”

Section: Geosystem Services Land Use and Mmedsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In these cases, the interests of the mining industry may diverge from those of the local community and/or non-governmental organizations (NGO). As mining has environmental, social, and economic impacts, land-use conflicts in the industry have been common [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14].…”

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Territories of Contention: The Importance of Project Location in Mining-Related Disputes in Finland from the Geosystem Services Perspective

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Geosystem services produced by geological processes are the abiotic equivalents of ecosystem services. Geosystems also contribute to satisfying human needs and produce welfare in the form of, e.g., mineral deposits, landscapes for recreation and tourism, and habitats for rare species that require protection. Geosystems are inherently linked to ecosystems, which causes overlap between provided services. This overlap may in turn cause conflicts over land-use needs and interests. Such controversies can be manifested as mining and mineral exploration disputes (MMEDs). Six MMEDs from Finland were selected for a closer examination. The MMEDs are described and spatially analyzed from the geosystem services perspective. The main causes for the examined MMEDs are land-use issues, i.e., the location of a project in a sensitive context (a protected area (PA), tourism destination, reindeer herding area, or lake area with vacation homes), and/or association with uranium. There have been attempts to block some of the projects through land-use planning by expanding PAs or excluding mining from the municipality. Conversely, one of the projects is an example of the safeguarding of mineral deposits by province-level land-use planning. A more comprehensive consideration of geosystem services by land-use planning may help to accommodate and reconciliate diverse interests and alleviate disputes.

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The Legacy of Sweden’s Social Democratic State for Extractive Bargains with Indigenous Sámi Reindeer Herding Communities

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Managing Intractable Natural Resource Conflicts: Exploring Possibilities and Conditions for Reframing in a Mine Establishment Conflict in Northern Sweden

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2023

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Natural resource management (NRM) increasingly relies on communicative measures to enable reframing in intractable conflicts. Reframing occurs when disputants change their perceptions of a conflict situation, and/or their preferences for dealing with it. However, the types of reframing possible, and the conditions under which they can occur, remain unclear. Through an inductive and longitudinal analysis of a mine establishment conflict in northern Sweden this paper explores to what extent, how, and under what conditions reframing can occur in intractable NRM conflicts. The findings reveal the difficulty in achieving consensus-oriented reframing. Despite multiple dispute resolution efforts, the disputants’ perceptions and preferences became increasingly polarized. Nonetheless, the results suggest that it is possible to enable reframing to the extent that all disputants can understand and accept each other’s different perceptions and positions, i.e., meta-consensus. Meta-consensus hinges on neutral, inclusive, equal, and deliberative intergroup communication. However, the results show that intergroup communication and reframing are significantly informed by institutional and other contextual factors. For example, when implemented within the formal governance system in the investigated case, intergroup communication lagged in quality and did not contribute to meta-consensus. Moreover, the results show that reframing is strongly influenced by the nature of the disputed issues, actors’ group commitments, and the governance system’s distribution of power to the actors. Based on these findings, it is argued that more efforts should focus on how governance systems can be configurated so that high-quality intergroup communication and meta-consensus can be enabled and inform decision making in intractable NRM conflicts.

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What to do when the mining company comes to town? Mapping actions of anti-extraction movements in Sweden, 2009–2019

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

Territories of Contention: The Importance of Project Location in Mining-Related Disputes in Finland from the Geosystem Services Perspective

Territories of Contention: The Importance of Project Location in Mining-Related Disputes in Finland from the Geosystem Services Perspective

The Legacy of Sweden’s Social Democratic State for Extractive Bargains with Indigenous Sámi Reindeer Herding Communities

Managing Intractable Natural Resource Conflicts: Exploring Possibilities and Conditions for Reframing in a Mine Establishment Conflict in Northern Sweden

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