Lithium is a key component in green energy storage technologies and is rapidly becoming a
metal of crucial importance to the European Union. The different industrial uses of lithium …

Wastewater infrastructures play an indispensable role in society's functioning, human
production activities, and sanitation safety. However, climate change has posed a serious …

Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of
institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which …

Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land and
natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, and indigenous …

The concept of a 'just transition'to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream
global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political …

This paper addresses new challenges and identifies starting points for development theory
following recent debates in Latin America on 'new or neo-extractivism'. It focuses on the …

This critical review argues that the experiences and perspectives of women in relation to the
extractive industries have often been absent from analysis of the impacts of mining in the …

In this article I examine how metals mining companies understand and act upon CSR as risk
management and the consequences for community CSR projects. I begin by exploring the …

This progress report surveys recent work in human geography on the resource-state nexus.
This choice reflects several contemporary trends in the governance of land, water and …

Based on the 2011 Annual Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group Lecture, this
paper makes the case for a political ecology of the subsoil. Arguing that subsoil resources …