Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods : Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation

[Book Description]

This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and ecomic change in indigeus communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The case studies are used to assess whether and how development processes might compete and conflict with the market objectives of multinational corporations and the organizational and moral principles of indigeus communities. Emphasizing the perspectives of directly-affected parties, the authors identify common patterns in the way in which extraction projects are conceptualized, implemented and perceived. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods. Its in-depth case studies underscore the need for increased social accountability in the planning and development of natural resource extraction projects.
 

[Table of Contents]

List of Figures, Tables and Box            vii
        List of Contributors                       ix
Introduction                                       1  (10)
          Emma Gilberthorpe
          Gavin Hilson
    1 Indigenous Employment, Training and          11 (26)
    Retention: Successes and Challenges at Red
    Dog Mine
          Sharman Haley
          David Fisher
    2 Mining in Aboriginal Australia: Economic     37 (20)
    Impacts, Sustainable Livelihoods and
    Cultural Difference at Century Mine,
    Northwest Queensland
          David Martin
          David Trigger
          Joni Parmenter
    3 Reciprocity in the Canadian Dene Diamond     57 (18)
    Mining Economy
          Ginger Gibson MacDonald
          John B. Zoe
          Terre Satterfield
    4 The Money Rain Phenomenon: Papua New         75 (18)
    Guinea Oil and the Resource Curse
          Emma Gilberthorpe
    5 Fisheries in Coastal India: Extraction,      93 (16)
    Livelihoods and a Way of Life
          J. Allister McGregor
          Venkatesh Salagrama
          Aditya V. Bahadur
    6 Negotiable Differences? Conflicts over       109(20)
    Mining and Development in South East Ecuador
          Ximena S. Warnaars
          Anthony Bebbington
    7 Corporate Social Responsibility in           129(18)
    Oil-Rich Sub-Saharan Africa:
    Conceptualizing the Challenges
          Abigail Hilson
    8 Land, Oil and Indigenous People in the       147(32)
    Russian North: A Case Study of the Oil
    Pipeline and Evenki in Aldan
          Natalia Yakovleva
    9 Timber Extraction in Solomon Islands: Too    179(22)
    Much, Too Fast; Too Little, Too Late
          Sue Farran
    10 What Local People Want with Forests:        201(20)
    Ideologies and Attitudes in Papua New Guinea
          Paul Sillitoe
          Colin Filer
    11 Conservation, Extraction and Corruption:    221(20)
    Is Sustainable Forest Management Possible
    in Romania?
          Laura Bouriaud
          Mariella Marzano
    12 Preserving Forests and Protecting           241(20)
    Livelihoods: The Challenge of REDD
    Governance
          Mark Hirons
    13 Fair Trade Mineral Programs in              261(12)
    Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Critical
    Reflections
          Gavin Hilson
          Roy Maconachie
Afterword                                          273(8)
          Andrew Barry
Index                                              281