As a result of recent socio-environmental disasters, mine tailings have become an
environmental liability, raising concern among local communities, civil society and the State …

As mining activity generally occurs far away from metropolitan areas, governments tend to
forget the problems that communities in mining regions face. Centralized government …

This paper introduces a collection of manuscripts compiled for a special section of The
Extractive Industries and Society on local content. Our introduction paper situates these …

This article explores how the gold mining sector has adapted and evolved in developing
countries since the onset of the global pandemic. A major criticism of capital-intensive gold …

Mining conflicts are comprised of diverse socio-territorial mobilizations that originate in
different parts of countries where mineral deposits are exploited, and became politicized to …

This paper analyses the role played by different urban nodes in the Chilean copper mining
Global Production Network (GPN), and how filtering mechanisms act in favour of the capital …

This paper discusses the rationale for, and use of, local content requirements (LCRs) in the
mining sector. In many countries, LCRs are being used to facilitate wealth creation, local …

Long‐distance commuting (LDC) is an increasingly relevant strategy of labor mobility
worldwide and is therefore key to understanding the structure and dynamics of labor …

Economic diversification is seen as imperative to reduce resource-dependent economies'
vulnerability to a broader resource curse. Despite its importance, we know surprisingly little …

Since 1990s, significant transformations have occurred in the mining industry, resulting in
functional and spatial fragmentation that have impacted the operational dynamics in the …