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Large-Scale Mines and Local-level Politics : Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia-Pacific Environment MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (450 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760461508
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Large-Scale Mines and Local-level PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 338.2099597
LOC classification:
  • TN124.N5 .L374 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Large-Scale Mines and Local‑Level Politics -- 2. From Anticipation to Practice: Social and Economic Management of a Nickel Plant's Establishment in New Caledonia's North Province -- 3. Social and Environmental Transformations in the Neighbourhood of a Nickel Mining Project: A Case Study from Northern New Caledonia -- 4. The Boakaine Mine in New Caledonia: A Local Development Issue? -- 5. Conflict and Agreement: The Politics of Nickel in Thio, New Caledonia -- 6. Contesting the Goro Nickel Mining Project, New Caledonia: Indigenous Rights, Sustainable Development and the Land Issue -- 7. Dissecting Corporate Community Development in the Large-Scale Melanesian Mining Sector -- 8. Negotiating Community Support for Closure or Continuation of the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea -- 9. Disconnected Development Worlds: Responsibility towards Local Communities in Papua New Guinea -- 10. Gender Mainstreaming and Local Politics: Women, Women's Associations and Mining in Lihir -- 11. Migrants, Labourers and Landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea -- 12. Bougainville: Origins of the Conflict, and Debating the Future of Large-Scale Mining -- 13. Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea.
Summary: Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for indigenous communities has been a major political issue in both jurisdictions.
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Intro -- Tables -- Figures -- Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Large-Scale Mines and Local‑Level Politics -- 2. From Anticipation to Practice: Social and Economic Management of a Nickel Plant's Establishment in New Caledonia's North Province -- 3. Social and Environmental Transformations in the Neighbourhood of a Nickel Mining Project: A Case Study from Northern New Caledonia -- 4. The Boakaine Mine in New Caledonia: A Local Development Issue? -- 5. Conflict and Agreement: The Politics of Nickel in Thio, New Caledonia -- 6. Contesting the Goro Nickel Mining Project, New Caledonia: Indigenous Rights, Sustainable Development and the Land Issue -- 7. Dissecting Corporate Community Development in the Large-Scale Melanesian Mining Sector -- 8. Negotiating Community Support for Closure or Continuation of the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea -- 9. Disconnected Development Worlds: Responsibility towards Local Communities in Papua New Guinea -- 10. Gender Mainstreaming and Local Politics: Women, Women's Associations and Mining in Lihir -- 11. Migrants, Labourers and Landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea -- 12. Bougainville: Origins of the Conflict, and Debating the Future of Large-Scale Mining -- 13. Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea.

Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for indigenous communities has been a major political issue in both jurisdictions.

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