| By K Patel, J.Rogan, N. Cuba, A. Bebbington | Published by The Extractive Industries and Society, April 2016, Vol.3(2), pp.450-463 | Summary: Since implementation of its Economic Recovery Program in 1983, Ghana’s extractive industries have come to account for 40% of the total value of the country’s exports. An adverse impact of this increase, […]
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Socio-environmental conflicts: an opportunity for mining companies
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 84:34 | | Full text (PDF) |
Extractive industries, livelihoods and natural resource competition: mapping overlapping claims in Peru and Ghana
| By N. Cuba, A. Bebbington, J. Rogan, M. Millones | Published by Applied Geography, 54: 250-261 | Abstract: Taking the cases of Perú and Ghana, this paper examines overlaps between the extraction of minerals, oil and gas on the one hand, and river basins, agricultural land use, and protected areas on the other hand. In […]
Conflict translates social and environmental risk into business costs
| By D. Franks, R. Davis, A. Bebbington, S. Ali, D. Kemp, M. Scurrah | Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. May 27;111(21):7576-81 | | Full text | Sustainability science has grown as a field of inquiry, but has said little about the role of large-scale private sector actors in socio-ecological systems change. […]
Minería, conflictividad y la política: algo cambia?
| Por A. Bebbington, A. Chaparro yM. Scurrah | Publicado en Revista Argumentos, Año 7 No. 5 | | Texto completo |
Industrias extractivas, conflicto social y dinámicas institucionales en la región andina
| Edited by Anthony Bebbington | Published by Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (modified and extended version of Routledge book, 2012), Lima | Official webpage La expansión de las industrias extractivas en América Latina, especialmente en la región andina y amazónica, está transformando a gran escala a las sociedades, economías y territorios en los que viene ocurriendo. […]
Post-what? Extractive industries, narratives of development and socio-environmental disputes across the (ostensibly changing) Andean region
| By D. Humphreys Bebbington and A. Bebbington | Published in New Political Spaces in Latin American Natural Resource Governance. Edited by H. Haarstad. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. | Abstract: Lima, 2011: A colleague begins a postgraduate seminar on extractive industries by presenting students, drawn from across Latin America, with a series of quotations on the relationships between […]
Crossing Boundaries
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in America’s Quarterly, 7(1): 112-118 | Headnote: Community distrust and regional conflict over resource exploitation have been on the rise. Can they be constructively channeled for positive change or are they just a sign of more things to come?
Negotiable Differences? Conflicts Over Mining and Development in South East Ecuador
| By X. Warnaars and A Bebbington | Published in Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation. Edited by G. Hilson and E. Gilberthorpe. London: Ashgate. |
Anatomies of Conflict: Social Mobilization and New Political Ecologies of the Andes
| By A. Bebbington, D. Humphreys Bebbington, J. Bury, L. Hinojosa and M.L. Burneo | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J. Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. | Excerpt: In this chapter, we discuss findings from a large-scale comparative research program studying […]