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Extractive Industries - Friends of the Earth Europe

EXTRACTION. This Fact Sheet is part of the "Making Extractive Industry Work for Climate and Development” project extractive industries: blessing or curse?

Book : Extractive Industries - UNU-WIDER

While resource wealth can yield prosperity it can also, when mismanaged, cause acute social inequality, deep poverty, environmental damage, and political ...

Strengthening women's position in the extractive industries

Women and men are impacted differently by extractive industries projects. Frequently, women bear a disproportionate burden of adverse impacts ...

7 ways oil and gas drilling is bad for the environment

Infrastructure built for oil and gas extraction can leave behind radical impacts on wildlands. The construction of roads, facilities and ...

UNDP's Strategy for Supporting Sustainable and Equitable ...

The management of extractive sectors (oil, gas and minerals) is a major challenge and opportunity for developing countries today.

Seeking Environmental Justice in California's "Lithium Valley"

The PEIR will disclose and analyze the cumulative environmental impacts of lithium extraction and related industries, as well as recommend ...

Harnessing the Potential of Extractive Industries

1 Even though spillover effects in terms of indirect jobs can be significant, the International Council on Mining and Metals reports – in accordance with ILO ...

The Role of the Extractive Sector in Expanding Economic Opportunity

8 The absence of these and other reforms can reduce the positive impact that mining and other extractive industries can have on local economies. This is a ...

ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL THREAT OF EXTRACTIVE ...

Where numerous development projects occur within a region, this can lead to cumulative impacts ... Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) of extractive projects ...

Indigenous Peoples, International Law, and Extractive Industry ...

The extractive industry has contributed to the development of international law since colonial times. Contracts between states and extractive companies ...

The Area of Influence of site-based operations – Indirect Impacts

of the industrial project makes other economic activity viable, triggering ... Indirect impacts of industrial development have remained a grey area in ...

Extractive Industries - The Management of Resources as a Driver of ...

... environmental impacts and issues: the evolution of the industry's ... development programmes in the extractives industries, Catherine McDonald

Costs of Company-Community Conflict in the Extractive Sector - Shift

The case analysis revealed that environmental impacts such as pollution ... For example, a major, world-class mining project with capital expenditure ...

Social Responsibility in Extractive Industries - EPCM Holdings

Global advances in normative have had a profound effect on major mining companies. By the mid-2000s, sustainable development had been accepted as a normative ...

Sustainable and responsible development of minerals

Environmental impacts, including biodiversity loss and social disruption due to land use change, water depletion and pollution, waste related contamination, and ...

People and industry | Australia state of the environment 2021

The Central Land Council have noted that extractive industries in the Northern Territory have significant impacts on water, stating that while there is public ...

Global Afterlives of Extraction - OpenEdition Journals

1Debates around resource extraction, capitalism and development are situated within broader discussions about the relationship between economic ...

Governance processes and sustainability impacts of the extractive ...

This research project is a collaboration between the Centre on Conflict, Development ... The project, funded by the Swiss Network of International Studies ...

The impact of natural resource corruption on indigenous peoples

Around the world, the rights of indigenous peoples[1] are often in tension with the economic interests of extractive companies and ...

Extractive Industries and Gender Equality | Review of Environmental ...

Given gender segregation, extractive industry–induced changes to local labor markets can also have implications for migration. For example, male populations ...