Governing African Gold Mining
Author | : Ainsley Elbra |
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Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
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Author | : Ainsley Elbra |
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Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
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Author | : Ainsley Elbra |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137563540 |
This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with significant private authority in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania are able to engender rules and regulations that are acknowledged by other actors, and in some cases even adopted by the state. In doing so, it establishes that firms are co-governing Africa’s gold mining sector. By exploring the implications for resource-cursed states, this significant work argues that firm-led regulation can improve governance, but that many of these initiatives fail to address country/mine specific issues where there remains a role for the state in ensuring the benefits of mining flow to local communities. It will appeal to economists, political scientists, and policy-makers and practitioners working in the field of mining and extractives.
Author | : Ainsley Elbra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
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Global mining firms are taking a leading role in the governance of sub-Saharan Africa's gold mining industries. No longer are states seen as the sole source of authority and governance, instead, non-state actors such as firms and industry organisations are contributing to the regulation of the sector through private governance initiatives. This paper highlights the role firms play in governing the gold mining sector using primary evidence gathered through analysis of firms' annual reporting. Firms' annual reports were analysed to highlight the differences between their stated rationales for participating in private governance initiatives. Through this content analysis it is shown that gold mining firms with broad geographical footprints engage with private governance in order to simplify their compliance burden. Smaller firms are more likely to cite normative reasons for supporting private governance regimes, including a desire to appease stakeholders and communities in their country of operation. Overall, the theoretical and empirical evidence presented in this paper suggests large, multi-national mining firms are more likely to develop and engage with private governance initiatives and that they do so in order to determine the regulatory structure of their industry, thereby sharing sovereignty with sub-Saharan African states.
Author | : B. Campbell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113733231X |
Academics, policy-makers and practitioners from Africa and beyond document new ways of thinking about issues concerning governance and revenue flows in mining activities in Ghana, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Author | : Warikandwa, Tapiwa V. |
Publisher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9956764329 |
This book is a pacesetter in matters of mining and the environment in Africa from multidisciplinary and spatio-temporal perspectives. The book approaches mining from the perspectives of law, politics, archaeology, anthropology, African studies, geography, human ecology, sociology, history, economics and development. It interrogates mining and environment from the perspectives of customary law as well as from the perspectives of Euro-modern laws. In this sense, the book straddles precolonial, colonial and postcolonial mining and environmental perspectives. In all this, it maintains a Pan-Africanist perspective that also speaks to contemporary debates on African Renaissance and to the unity of Africa. From scrutinising the lived realities of African miners who are often insensitively and unjustly addressed as “illegal” miners, the book also interrogates transnational mining corporations; matters of corporate social responsibility as well as matters of tax evasions by transnational corporations whose commitment to accountability to African governments is questioned. With both theoretical chapters and chapter based on empirical studies on mining and the environment across the African continent, the book provides a much needed holistic, one stop shop for scholars, activists, researchers and policy makers who need a comprehensive treatise on African mining and the environment. The book comes at the right time when matters of African mining and environment are increasingly coming to the fore in the light of discourses about the new 21st century scramble for African resources, in which big transnational corporations and nations are jostling to suck Africa dry in their race to control planetary resources. It is a book that speaks to contemporary broader issues of (de-)coloniality and transformation of African minds and African environmental resources.
Author | : Bonnie K. Campbell |
Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789171065278 |
Liberalisation of the mining sector in Africa in the 1980s: a developmental perspective. II.
Author | : South Africa. Department of Labour |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Black people |
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Author | : Government of Rhodesia. Department of Mining Engineering |
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Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Victoria R. Nalule |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2023-06-09 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1000869504 |
This book explores the various issues that characterise the African mining sector, drawing examples from different African countries and regional organisations. Although there is a massive literature on the subject, some issues have been neglected, including the crucial role of digitalisation and technological advancement in resolving the environmental and social challenges faced in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM), deep-sea mining, mining contract negotiations and modernising mining laws to reflect the increasing role of critical minerals, to mention but a few. Therefore, the book unpacks the critical issues associated with the mining sector, explicitly reflecting on the practical solutions needed to address the challenges in the African mining sector. This book uniquely analyses and adds flavour to international mining’s fundamental concepts by describing a simulated annealing-based approach appropriate for complex mining projects in Africa. Book contributors comprise of academics from different universities including professors, practitioners, government policymakers, NGO executives and a variety of different experts. This multidisciplinary book will be of interest to African policymakers, governments, academics, industry professionals, energy and mining institutions, international organisations, universities across the globe and companies.
Author | : Saleem H. Ali |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2018-08-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0429884583 |
For too long Africa's mineral fortune has been lamented as a resource curse that has led to conflict rather than development for much of the continent. Yet times are changing and the opportunities to bring technical expertise on modern mining alongside appropriate governance mechanisms for social development are becoming more accessible in Africa. This book synthesizes perspectives from multiple disciplines to address Africa’s development goals in relation to its mineral resources. The authors cover ways of addressing a range of policy challenges, environmental concerns, and public health impacts and also consider the role of globalization within the extractive industries. Academic research is coupled with key field vignettes from practitioners exemplifying case studies throughout. The book summarizes the challenges of natural resource governance, suggesting ways in which mining can be more effectively managed in Africa. By providing an analytical framework it highlights the essential intersection between natural and social sciences, central to efficient and effective harnessing of the potential for minerals and mining to be a contributor to positive development in Africa. It will be of interest to policy makers, industry professionals, and researchers in the extractive industries, as well as to the broader development community.