Extractive Resources
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Harmonising Biodiversity and Climate Action with a Peace Lens in Latin America and the Caribbean
2024
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adelphi global
Hector Morales Munoz and Lais Clemente Pereira
Biodiversity conservation plays a crucial role in addressing the challenges climate change and environmental degradation pose to human security and peace. This practical note explores…
Where Are They and Who Are the Peasant Women of the South? The Double Invisibilisation of Women Working on the Land
2024
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Martina Di, Paula Lopez
Through socio-environmental and eco-territorial conflicts, we seek to investigate the conception of peasantry as a contextualized identity, with an unequivocal feminist approach. The peasant subject…
Women and Indigenous Resource Conflict Resolution Options in Uganda’s Oil Region: A Case of Barazas
2024
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Mobility, Identity, and Conflict Resolution in Africa
Deborah Birungi, Nicholas Tunanukye, and John Mushomi Atwebembeire
Resource ownership has been associated with power, which has been greatly influenced by patriarchy. The role of women in organising, planning, allocating, and controlling the…
Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes
2024
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Pacific Forum International
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock
The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.…
Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders
2023
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Extractive Industries and Society
Dalena Tran
This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…
Beyond Women and Men: How Extractive Projects Perpetuate Gendered Violence Against Environmental Defenders in Southeast Asia
2024
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The Journal of Peasant Studies
Dalena Tran
Discussion of gendered violence during environmental conflicts often centers on women’s issues without situating them within broader discrimination affecting all people.
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
2023
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Global Witness
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
Work-Parenthood Conflicts at the Operator and Professional Levels in Chile's Mining Industry: A Gender Analysis
2023
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Journal of Family Studies
Pamela Caro, Daniela Madrid, and María Elvira Cárdenas
The aim of this article is to determine, from a gender and class perspective, how mothers who work in mining operations experience the tensions associated…
Gender in Mining
2023
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Nature Energy
Silvana Lakeman
Questions of equal treatment regarding gender are gaining prominence in the mining industry, which has been traditionally male-dominated.
Gender Sensitive Responses to Climate Change in Nigeria: The Role of Multinationals’ Corporate Social Responsibility in Oil Host Communities
2023
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Journal of Global Responsibility
Joseph I. Uduji and Nduka E.N. Okolo-Obasi
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to…
Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not
2019
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International Initiative for Impact Evaluatio
Francis Rathinam, Priyanka Cardoz, Zeba Siddiqui, and Marie Gaarder
While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…
Financing the Unbanked: How Community Savings Groups Can Create Pathways for Legal Artisanal Gold in Burkina Faso
2023
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IMPACT
Kady Seguin, Victoria Reichel, Raphael Deberdt
This paper explores the connections between financial inclusion, formalization of artisanal miners, and illicit trade. The research demonstrates why financial inclusion is a crucial component…
Peace Studies and the Limits to Growth
2023
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Journal of Social Encounters
Selina Gallo-Cruz
Scientists have issued increasingly dire warnings about the present and future danger posed by ecological overshoot. Peace scholars’ entrée into this discourse is often through…
Environment and Security in the 21st Century
2023
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Environment & Security
Ashok Swain, Carl Bruch, Tobias Ide, Päivi Lujala, Richard Matthew, and Erika Weinthal
Environment and Security positions itself as an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed journal responding to a broader interest in the topic. It is committed to theoretical and…
Gender and Sustainability Reporting – Critical Analysis of Gender Approaches in Mining
2023
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Resources Policy
Phyllis Lesnikov, Nadja C. Kunz, and Leila M. Harris
The mining sector remains economically significant across the globe. With a number of growing sustainability concerns (from environmental waste and pollution to social and ethical…
Informal Mining in Colombia: Gender-Based Challenges for the Implementation of the Business and Human Rights Agenda
2022
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Business and Human Rights Journal
Lina M. Céspedes-Báez, Enrique Prieto-Ríos, Juan P. Pontón-Serra, Joanna B. Martignoni, Nora Götzmann, Bonita Meyersfeld, and Harpreet Kaur
This paper analyses whether the implementation of business and human rights (BHR) frameworks in Colombia properly responds to the challenges posed by informal mining and…
Small-Scale Gold Mining and Gender Roles: Critical Reflections on Socio-Cultural Dynamics in North-Eastern Ghana
2022
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Social Sciences
Jennifer D. Mengba, Raymond A. Atanga, and Constance A. Akurugu
This article is a critical examination of socio-cultural factors and dynamics and the extent to which they inflect gender roles in small-scale gold mining (SSGM)…
Antecedents of Sustainable E-Waste Disposal Behavior: The Moderating Role of Gender
2022
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Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Mingyue Fan, Abdul Khalique, Sikandar Ali Qalati, Faheem Gul Gillal, and Rukhsana Gul Gillal
This study presents an integrative sustainable e-waste model, drawing on organismic integration theory and gender schema theory. E-waste behavior has attracted considerable attention in the…
Defueling Conflict: Environment and Natural Resource Management as a Pathway to Peace
2022
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World Bank
Shaadee Jasmine Ahmadnia, Agathe Marie Christien, Phoebe Girouard Spencer, Tracy Hart, and Caio Cesar De Araujo Barbosa
Natural resources management can be a powerful driver of fragility and conflict or a critical tool for peacebuilding. Protracted, cross-border, and compounded transnational challenges such as…
Community-Centered Approaches to Green Mineral Mining: A Conversation with Pact's Roger-Mark De Souza [Audio]
2022
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New Security Beat
Roger-Mark De Souza
According to the World Bank, building enough renewable energy infrastructure to keep global warming below 2C will require more than 3 billion tons of minerals. Reducing…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Gender Differences In Extractive Activities: Evidence From Ghana
2022
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International Journal of Social Economics
William Baah-Boateng, Eric Kofi Twum, and Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
The study seeks to examine women’s participation in Ghana’s extractive growth-driven economy and the quality of this participation in terms of employment status and earnings…
Migration, Authority and the Gendered Organization of Labour in Artisanal Gold Mining in Sierra Leone (and Mozambique)
2022
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Africa
Blair Rutherford
Recent studies of migration into artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) have explored the motivations, strategic agency and professional trajectories of women and men miners who…
Work-Parenthood Conflicts at the Operator and Professional Levels in Chile’s Mining Industry: A Gender Analysis
2022
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Journal of Family Studies
Pamela Caro, Daniela Madrid, and María Elvira Cárdenas
The aim of this article is to determine, from a gender and class perspective, how mothers who work in mining operations experience the tensions associated…
Does Balancing Gender Composition Lead to More Prosocial Outcomes? Experimental Evidence of Equality in Public Goods and Extraction Games From Rural Kenya
2022
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World Development
Yuta J. Masuda, Gina Waterfield, Carolina Castilla, Shiteng Kang, and Wei Zhang
There is resurging interest in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) as an approach for achieving global biodiversity conservation goals. Yet, CBNRM remains dominated by men,…
Gender Equality in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Assessing Progress Towards SDG 5 Using Salience and Institutional Analysis and Design
2022
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Environmental Science & Policy
Natalia Yakovleva, Diego Alfonso Vazquez-Brust, Francis Arthur-Holmes, and Kwaku Abrefa Busia
Although a growing body of research emphasizes the role of women in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in developing countries, gender inequality is still persistent in the…
Indigenous and Rural Women's Voices: Recommendations to Address Climate Security Risks in Colombia
2022
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DCAF
Linda Sánchez Avendaño
From an ecofeminist and human security perspective, this study aims to contribute to filling this existing gap by developing actionable recommendations that can be replicated…
Women Speak: The Lived Nexus Between Climate, Gender and Security
2022
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DCAF
Megan Bastick and Camille Risler
A growing body of research recognises the gendered impacts of climate change, and how these are impacted by armed conflict. Women often bear the brunt…
Women Leading Change: Re-Shaping Gender in Ghanaian Mines
2020
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International Journal of Development Issues
Rufai Kilu, Adesuwa Omorede, Maria Udén, and M. A. Sanda
There is growing attention towards inclusive mining to make an economic case for gender equality and diversity in the industry. Available literature lacks sufficient empirical…