7 results on '"EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES"'
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2. El triángulo escaleno. Litio y políticas de desarrollo productivo en Argentina, Bolivia y Chile
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Martín Obaya
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natural resources ,lithium ,extractive industries ,industrial policy ,capabilities ,Latin America. Spanish America ,F1201-3799 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Lithium has become a critical element in the global energy transition, and has assumed a strategic nature in countries endowed with abundant resources like Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. Socio-technical imaginaries have been developed around lithium, conceived as a platform for the development of local knowledge-intensive technological and productive capabilities. However, the public policy strategies adopted by each country differ widely in terms of targeted activities, policy tools, and the role played by public and private actors. The article characterises and compares the policy strategies pursued in each country to develop local production and technological capabilities and discusses their potential and limitations.
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- 2022
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3. How an Economic Imperative is Constructed: The Case of Oil Exploitation in Uganda
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Pierre Wokuri
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natural resources ,extractive industries ,oil ,Uganda ,political economy ,public policy ,Ressources naturelles ,pétrole ,Ouganda ,économie politique ,politiques publiques ,Political institutions and public administration (General) ,JF20-2112 - Abstract
A great deal of research has documented how extractive resources are governed once their exploitation has begun, how transnational actors and factors play a role in extractive industries, and how states stick to a path of dependency towards fossil fuel exploitation. However, most of this previous research has not taken sufficiently seriously domestic politics. Furthermore, there has been little work on how dependency is constructed before exploiting these resources. This article fills that gap by showing how oil exploitation has been constructed as an economic imperative in Uganda. Building on a research design with a broad range of empirical fingerprints, this article shows that construction of oil as an economic imperative in Uganda is based on two processes: 1) embedding the meso level within the macro level through a long-term horizon; and 2) rendering the contingent necessary through a combination of material and immaterial strategies of state political control.
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- 2023
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4. Illicit financial flows within the extractive sector : between abuse and double talk
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Lemaître, Sophie, Institut de l'Ouest : Droit et Europe (IODE), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Rennes 1, Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau, Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Rennes
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Corruption ,Tax planning ,Transparence ,Extractive industries ,[SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law ,Criminalité des affaires ,White-Collar crime ,Money laundering ,Blanchiment de capitaux ,Transparency ,Industries extractives ,Evasion fiscale - Abstract
Oil, gas and minerals are indispensable resources for our economies and are sought-after. They are particularly prone to illicit financial flows such as corruption, tax avoidance and money laundering. Awareness of the extent of illicit practices in the extractive sector is relatively new. Over the last two decades, various measures have been adopted, forming an ambitious legal framework to combat illicit financial flows in the extractive sector. Despite the existence of this legal framework, illicit practices are still persistent. Stakeholders within the extractive sector such as companies and public officials have been able to adapt and be creative in order to abuse, circumvent and manipulate this legal framework in order to preserve their advantages and perpetuate illicit financial flows. They can also use legal and financial engineering, which provides them with an arsenal of legal tools and mobilizes experts who master the legal, political and financial environment in which companies and public officials evolve. Hence while wanting to combat illicit financial flows, law can find itself propitious to these illicit practices and even to their service.; Le pétrole, le gaz et les minerais sont des ressources indispensables pour le bon fonctionnement de nos économies et sont très convoitées. Elles sont, en outre, particulièrement propices à l’émergence de flux financiers illicites tels que la corruption, l’évitement fiscal ou encore le blanchiment de capitaux. La prise de conscience relative à l’ampleur des pratiques illicites dans le secteur extractif est relativement récente. Depuis une vingtaine d’années, diverses mesures formant un régime juridique ambitieux ont été adoptées pour endiguer ce phénomène. Malgré l’existence de ce régime juridique, les pratiques illicites perdurent au sein de ce secteur. Les acteurs du secteur extractif, entreprises et agents publics, ont su s’adapter et faire preuve de créativité pour contourner, détourner et manipuler ce régime juridique, afin de préserver leurs avantages et de perpétuer les flux financiers illicites. Ils peuvent également recourir à l’ingénierie juridique et financière qui leur fournit un arsenal d’outils juridiques et mobilise des experts maîtrisant à la perfection l’environnement juridique, politique et financier dans lequel les acteurs du secteur extractif évoluent. Ainsi le droit peut-il être propice aux flux financiers illicites et même au service de ceux-ci tout en voulant les combattre.
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- 2017
5. Resistindo ao desenvolvimento neocolonial: a luta do povo de Andalgalá contra projetos megamineiros
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Maria Ceci Misoczky and Steffen Böhm
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Development ,Management ,Social struggle ,Resistance ,Corporate social responsibility ,CSR ,Governance ,Extractive Industries ,Mining ,Business ,HF5001-6182 - Abstract
A América Latina vem experimentando uma nova era de declarada fé dos governos no mito do desenvolvimento, em articulação com a expansão de políticas extrativistas exportadoras em um contexto de renovada dependência. A face mais dramática do extrativismo na região tem sido a crescente presença de corporações mineiras transnacionais apoiadas por governos nacionais e regionais e por instituições internacionais financeiras e de apoio ao desenvolvimento, e intensamente resistidas por movimentos sociais populares. Neste artigo apresentamos o caso de Andalgalá (uma pequena cidade na Província de Catamarca, na Argentina) e as lutas do povo contra corporações mineiras transnacionais e seus aliados. Na tradição da Filosofia da Libertação e do método ana-dialético de Dussel, nos engajamos com o que tem sido denominado "comunidades argentinas do NÃO", expressando sua oposição a formas neocoloniais de desenvolvimento e gestão. Neste artigo estamos especificamente interessados em compreender como dois dispositivos gerencialistas usados pelas corporações mineiras, responsabilidade social corporativa (RSC) e pactos de governança, impactam a luta do povo. Acima de tudo, este artigo oferece instantâneos de batalhas na linha de frente do extrativismo. Esperamos ter dado voz àquelas pessoas que normalmente não são ouvidas, criando um espaço para suas visões sobre um tipo diferente de desenvolvimento.
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6. La protection des droits de l’homme à l’ère de l’industrie extractive en Afrique
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Pacifique Manirakiza
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Social Sciences and Humanities ,dégradation environnementale ,050901 criminology ,05 social sciences ,consentement ,environmental degradation ,consulta ,local or affected communities ,communautés locales ou affectées ,Industrias extractivas ,Extractive industries ,consultation ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sciences Humaines et Sociales ,consent ,degradación ambiental ,0509 other social sciences ,comunidades locales o afectadas ,Industries extractives ,Law ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,consentimiento - Abstract
En dépit des richesses minières énormes dont les revenus et autres retombées auraient pu permettre aux États africains de s’acquitter des leurs obligations internationales en matière de protection des droits de la personne, force nous est de constater que le coût humain et environnemental de l’exploration et l’exploitation des ressources extractives est très préoccupant. En plus des efforts déployés par les États africains, agissant collectivement ou individuellement, pour parer à cette situation, cet article, se fondant sur une approche basée sur les droits de la personne, fait un plaidoyer pour l’implication communautaire dans la gouvernance de l’industrie active, aux côtés de l’État et des industries extractives., While Africa’s enormous mineral wealth could lead to increased revenues and other benefits that would make it possible for African countries to fulfill their obligations to protect human rights, there are large human and environmental costs involved in the exploration and exploitation of mining resources. Taking a human rights–based approach, the author argues that African communities, as well as government and industry, should be involved in governance of the mining industry in Africa., A pesar de las enormes riquezas mineras cuyos ingresos y otros beneficios habrían podido permitir a los Estados africanos de cumplir con sus obligaciones internacionales en materia de protección de los derechos humanos, constatamos que el costo humano y ambiental de la exploración y explotación de los recursos extractivos es muy preocupante. Además de los esfuerzos desplegados por los Estados africanos, quienes actúan colectivamente o individualmente para contrarrestar esta situación, el presente artículo, basado en un enfoque centrado en los derechos humanos, propone un alegato en favor de la implicación comunitaria en la gobernancia de la industria activa, junto con el Estado y con las industrias extractivas.
7. ‘Our Happy Hour Became a Hungry Hour’: Logging, Subsistence and Social Relations in Solomon Islands
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Minter, T. and van der Ploeg, J.
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- 2023
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