Criticality and supply risk models seek to address concerns of potential disruption to global
metal supply. These models need to incorporate disruption events that arise from within the …

This paper seeks to develop a framework to identify, analyse, and assess the mining
industry's key challenges in terms of environmental, operational, and social issues. For each …

Local resource curse problems epitomize the difficult interface dynamics confronting
resource developers and host communities. These problems centre on the opportunity costs …

Lagging other components, project-induced resettlement rarely, if ever, is completed after
those resettled are compensated and replacement infrastructure handed-over. Initiating …

In a context of high global demand for energy transition minerals, the possibility of accessing
the large resources in the deep sea appears to some as a supply and financial opportunity …

We examine the relationship between dispossession, customary land relations, and
involuntary displacement. Attention to customary land relations is the key to understanding …

Energy transition is a major structural change in the whole social system, and the energy
system must be changed globally to replace fossil fuels. Hydropower is one of the largest …

The authors present a multidimensional analysis of vulnerability conditions surrounding a
global cohort of 270 mining induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR) events. A global …

Globally, hydropower is one of the most important energy sources, but its development often
entails population displacement. Traditional economics cannot fundamentally resolve …

Over the past half century, hydropower dams have displaced 40–80 million people around
the world. In the development literature, the outcome of these shocks is represented in the …