Extractive Resources
Beyond Women and Men: How Extractive Projects Perpetuate Gendered Violence Against Environmental Defenders in Southeast Asia
2024
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The Journal of Peasant Studies
Dalena Tran
Discussion of gendered violence during environmental conflicts often centers on women’s issues without situating them within broader discrimination affecting all people.
Exploring Public Support for Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Natural Resource Extraction: Survey Insights from the United States
2024
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Resources Policy
Martijn C. Vlaskamp
This paper investigates public support for national policies that hold companies accountable for their actions abroad, focusing on the extraction of natural resources. A survey…
Decolonizing Peacebuilding Research in Africa through Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Experience of Igbo-Speaking Group of Niger-Delta Region, Nigeria (chapter in "Decolonizing Peace and Conflict Studies through Indigenous Research")
2022
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Springer
Ferbinand O. Ottoh
This chapter examines the decolonization of peacebuilding research in Africa through Indigenous knowledge systems using the Igbo-speaking group of the Niger-Delta region, Nigeria as a…
Mineral Rents, Conflict, Population and Economic Growth in Selected Economies: Empirical Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
2023
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Journal of Economics and Development
Temitope Abraham Ajayi
Purpose – This study aims to investigate the effects of mineral rents, conflict and population growth on countries’ growth, with a specific interest in 13…
Conflict and Coltan: Resource Extraction and Collision in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Venezuela
2023
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Fordham Research Commons
Jenna Marie Goldblatt
Resource extraction has played an essential role in shaping human development and is an essential tool for technological improvement. However, resource extraction is also inherently…
Resource Nationalism and the Violation of Indigenous Rights in Mexico's Oil Industry: The Case of a Chontal Community in Tabasco
2021
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Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
Marcela Torres-Wong
For decades, Indigenous communities living in Mexico’s oil-producing state of Tabasco suffered violence, environmental contamination, and the destruction of their traditional livelihood. The administration of…
Exploring the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Context of Conflict in Iraq
2023
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Energy Nexus
Bassam Yousif, Omar El-Joumayle, and Jehan Baban
This article applies the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus to explore the relationships between Iraq's water (demand and supply), energy (oil, gas and electricity), and food production,…
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
2023
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Global Witness
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
Environmental Dimensions of Conflict and Paralyzed Responses: The Ongoing Case of Ukraine and Future Implications for Urban Warfare
2022
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
Kristina Hook and Richard Marcantonio
Unique within the recent history of environmental hazards, eastern Ukraine illustrates the dangers arising from conflict in an urban landscape heavily modified by human action…
Peace Engineering in the Arctic: Accommodating Diverse Interests in a Changing Environment
2020
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Sandia National Laboratories
Nancy K. Hayden, Jasper Hardesty, Bernard Amadei, Diana Bull, Hajo Eicken, Alec Bennett, Howard Passell, and George Backus
Peace Engineering is the application of science and engineering principles and technology to promote and support peace. This emerging discipline brings together the systems engineering…
A Legal Framework for Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]
2020
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Conflict and Environment Observatory
Marja Lehto, Carl Bruch, Daniella Dam-de Jong, Elaine Hsiao, Stavros Pantazapoulos, Richard Pearshouse, Susan Power, and Doug Weir
This film, created for Geneva Peace Week 2020, introduces the legal principles on the Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts that are…
Energy Injustice and Its Role for Environmental Peacebuilding
2023
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Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient
Ahmad Al-Wadaey, Tobias Zumbrägel, and Ali Alamudi
This report discusses the crucial but understudied impact of oil extraction in- dustries on local communities and the environment in Yemen’s Hadhramawt governorate. By combining…
Energy Injustice and Its Role for Environmental Peacebuilding
2023
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Carpo Sustainability Series
Ahmad Al-Wadaey, Tobias Zumbragel, and Ali Alameda
This report discusses the crucial but understudied impact of oil extraction in- dustries on local communities and the environment in Yemen’s Hadhramawt governorate. By combining…
Environmental and Psychological Effects of Russian War in Ukraine
2023
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Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources
Olena Khrushch, Viktor Moskalets, Oksana Fedyk, Yuliya Karpiuk, Myroslava Hasiuk, Nataliia Ivantsev, Liudmyla Ivantsev, and Hasrat Arjjumend
Russia invasion on Ukraine has extensive and unprecedented negative impacts on natural environment and human life. Since saving human lives and protecting nuclear establishments are…
Conflict Minerals: 2022 Company Reports on Mineral Sources Were Similar to Those Filed in Prior Years
2023
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US Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure rule on conflict minerals broadly requires that certain companies submit a filing that describes their efforts to…
The Arctic Council, the International Maritime Organization, and the Polar Code
2023
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Environment and Security
Liselotte Odgaard and Kathryn C. Lavelle
Numerous scientific investigations and multilateral efforts have contributed to our understanding of environmental challenges and how to deal with them; yet little effective and coordinated…
Work-Parenthood Conflicts at the Operator and Professional Levels in Chile's Mining Industry: A Gender Analysis
2023
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Journal of Family Studies
Pamela Caro, Daniela Madrid, and María Elvira Cárdenas
The aim of this article is to determine, from a gender and class perspective, how mothers who work in mining operations experience the tensions associated…
Gender in Mining
2023
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Nature Energy
Silvana Lakeman
Questions of equal treatment regarding gender are gaining prominence in the mining industry, which has been traditionally male-dominated.
Extractivism and Conflict: Comparative Study of Serbia and the DRC
2023
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Journal of Social Encounters
Borislava Manojlovic and Espoir Kabanga
This study explores how populations in Serbia and the DRC have been affected by and responded to natural resource extraction. Specifically, protests and other activist…
A Dam, a Park, and Offsets: Analyzing Socio-Ecological Conflict in Santander, Colombia, through Political Ecology and Galtung's Conflict Triangle
2023
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Journal of Political Ecology
Jane K. Feeney
Environmental offsets are proposed as a solution to counterbalance the inherent conflict between extractive development and environmental protection. However, with the expansion of offsetting projects…
Climate and Environmental Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Competing over Abundant Resources - Adapting to Change
2023
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Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.
Kira Vinke, Loyle Campbell, Dana Schirwon, Katongo Seyuba, Florian Krampe, Hafsa Maalim, and Guelor I. Mbungwal
Climate change is compounding the Democratic Republic of Congo's tangle of problems - a long-running civil war, weak governance, and deeply entrenched poverty and inequality.…
‘We Are Nature Defending Itself’—The Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global North
2023
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International Development Policy
Dorothea Hamilton and Sina Trölenberg
Extractive activity is not limited to mining; it also occurs in the other forms of large-scale landscape destruction, including the deforestation involved in extensive infrastructure…
The Varieties of Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth
2005
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World Bank Economic Review
Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant Pritchett, and Gwen Busby
Many oil, mineral, and plantation crop--based economies experienced a substantial deceleration in growth following the commodity boom and bust of the 1970s and early 1980s.…
The Political Economy of the Resource Curse
1999
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World Politics
Michael Ross
How does a state's natural resource wealth influence its economic development? For the past fifty years, versions of this question have been explored by both…
How Natural Resources Affect Economic Development
2000
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Development Policy Review
Richard M. Auty
This article argues that variations in economic performance are caused by differences in the quality of governance that are linked through the type of political…
Ignoring Indigenous Peoples—Climate Change, Oil Development, and Indigenous Rights Clash in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
2019
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Climatic Change
Emilie Zentner, Maik Kecinski, Angeline Letourneau, and Debra Davidson
The politics of climate change are the politics of energy and in turn the politics of Indigenous people’s rights. The clash of these political realms…
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development and Environmental Security: A Case Study of European Union Policies on Renewable Energy
2021
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Environmental Policy and Governance
Sandra Häbel and Emma Hakala
Policy coherence for sustainable development (PCSD) and environmental security are crucial for achieving sustainable development, yet their intersections remain largely unexplored. In this article, we…
Natural Resource Governance in Unrecognized Settings: What Are Emerging Political, Legal and Fiscal Issues Affecting “Somaliland”?
2023
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Natural Resources
Mohamed Rashid Hussein
Somaliland declared independence after the fall of the Central Government of Somalia in 1991. Early peace settlements and state-building efforts led to transitional government and…
Gender Sensitive Responses to Climate Change in Nigeria: The Role of Multinationals’ Corporate Social Responsibility in Oil Host Communities
2023
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Journal of Global Responsibility
Joseph I. Uduji and Nduka E.N. Okolo-Obasi
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the multinational oil companies’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in Nigeria. Its special focus is to…
Green Talks: The Voice of Ecology and Environment [Audio]
2022
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Paradigma
Sezen Kaya-Sönmez and Rita Floyd
In the first episode of the new series, called the "Green Talks: The Voice of Ecology and Environment", with Sezen Kaya-Sönmez from Kadir Has University,…