Beschreibung:
The book presents a rigorous framework for understanding the local effects and responses to the resource extraction operations, building on the existing literature of mining impacts to provide a grounded theoretical approach towards large-scale mining in Melanesia.
1. Introduction 2. A framework for understanding: beyond the development and post-development impasses 3. Context matters 4. Mining and Environment: Fertile Ground 5. Economy: flows and processes 6. Society: transformations and strategy 7. Mining and Development 8. Afterword: Mining as Development?