The stylized facts show that natural resource prices are highly volatile. The immediate
consequences of such volatility are changes in the labor force's income distribution and …

This article analyzes how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects individual incentives
to engage in protest against mining companies. The study finds that CSR practices provide …

Abstract Public participation in Environmental Impact Assessment processes is generally
considered to be one of the main safeguards of ensuring access to information and …

New data sources that I characterize as “bigger data” can offer insight into the causes and
consequences of socio-environmental conflicts, especially in the mining and extractive …

This article introduces a triad of participation as an explanatory framework that places more
emphasis on the distinction between participation, decision-making and consent in …

This article maps the emerging forms of labor struggles in the global mining industry. Using
mineworkers' mobilizations in Chile and Peru as examples, it shows how labor struggles …

Rare earths are important key metal minerals, but their exploitation, smelting and separation
leads to the emission of environmental pollutants. China has taken a series of measures to …

During the process of delimitation of the Santurban moorland ecosystem (Colombia), a
socioenvironmental conflict arose from small and large-scale mining extractivism. This study …

The expansion of the extractive industries in Latin America has been met with a variety of
responses by affected communities. Scholars have sought to understand why local people …

This article contributes to the on-going debate about how to understand extractive conflicts.
What drives conflicts in areas of extraction? Do local people mobilize to reject extraction …