Community Futures, Legal Architecture: Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom

By: Marcia Langton and Judy Longbottom

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Synopsis: How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century? The unifying experience in all the resource-rich states covered in the book is the social and economic disadvantage experienced by indigenous peoples and local communities, paradoxically surrounded by wealth-producing projects. Another critical commonality is the role of law. Where the imposition of statutory regulation is likely to result in conflict with local people, some large modern corporations have shown a preference for alternatives to repressive measures and expensive litigation. Ensuring that local people benefit economically is now a core goal for those companies that seek a social licence to operate to secure these resources. There is almost universal agreement that the best use of the financial and other benefits that flow to indigenous and local people from these projects is investment in the economic participation, education and health of present generations and accumulation of wealth for future generations. There is much hanging on the success of these strategies: it is often asserted that they will result in dramatic improvements in the status of indigenous and local communities. What happens in practice is fascinating, as the contributors to this book explain in case studies and analysis of legal and economic problems and solutions.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 306 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136337109
Related ISBNs:: 9780415518215, 9780203123119, 9780415732741
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/14/23
Copyrighted By:: Marcia Langton, Judy Longbottom
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Marcia Langton
Edited by:: Judy Longbottom