Development and Large-scale mining in the Asia-Pacific: Unearthing Development

Large-scale mining is a controversial development enterprise in the Asia-Pacific region, but it remains an integral part of the economies and development planning of most countries. This book looks at a range of issues connected with the mining industry in Melanesia, including environment, corporations, labor, economy, and community. It presents a rigorous framework for understanding the local effects and responses to resource extraction operations and argues that the structural representations of the relationship between mining multinationals and local communities are no longer appropriate.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Large-scale mining is a highly contentious contemporary development enterprise in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite numerous high-profile social, environmental, and human rights controversies associated with the mining industry, it remains an integral part of the economies and development planning of most countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This book, focusing on Melanesia, examines a range of issues related to the mining industry that resonate across the region, encompassing environment, corporations, labor, economy, and community.

The book offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the local effects and responses to resource extraction operations, building on the existing literature on mining impacts to provide a grounded theoretical approach to large-scale mining in Melanesia. It utilizes insights into the processes of change associated with these large-scale mines to inform current broader debates around development and development processes. Furthermore, the book argues that the structural representations of the relationship between mining multinationals and local communities that have been used as the basis for policy development, political action, and activism over the past decade are no longer appropriate in understanding the nature of the issues at stake.

Providing an original and significant contribution to debates around resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific region, this book is of use to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Geography, and Environment.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780415713740