Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries

Rights, Processes, and Tensions
Herausgeber: Haslam, Paul A.; Buhmann, Karin; Andrews, Nathan

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how communities, companies, and governments contest and shape the evolution of norms, rules, and decision-making processes that govern stakeholder consultation in extractive industries. It will interest students and scholars researching public participation and stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9781032785639
• ISBN-10: 1032785632
• Artikelnr.: 74264496

Autorenporträt

Paul A. Haslam is Professor of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Nathan Andrews is Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. Karin Buhmann is Professor in Business and Human Rights at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu is Professor and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Mark C.J. Stoddart is Professor of Sociology at Memorial University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: 1. Contested stakeholder consultations in global comparative
perspective PART 1: UNDERSTANDING CONTESTATION 2. Consultation, Indigenous
peoples and the extractive industries 3. Sustainable mining for whom?
Agential Constructivist perspectives on global mining sector consultation
regimes in Africa 4. Civil society and extractive company-community
relations in Canada and Norway PART 2: THE CONSTESTED MEANINGS OF
CONSULTATION 5. From consultation to consent: A potentially complex
transition in the Indigenous rights context, and analogous implications for
stakeholder consultation 6. Agreements, consultation, and consent in
extractive projects 7. Rights-based approach to consultation with
Indigenous Peoples in natural resource extraction 8. Indigenous governance,
gender, and engagement with rights-holders: Lessons from Canada through
environmental human rights PART 3: CONSULT HOW? PROCESSES FOR MEANINGFUL
CONSULTATION 9. Meaningful engagement of affected people and communities:
Exploring tensions between formal requirements and lived experiences of
public participation in impact assessments 10. Public consultation in
emergency situations: Lessons from decommissioning mine tailings dams in
Minas Gerais, Brazil. 11. Stakeholder engagement and company-community
relations in Ghana: Consultation practices, legal pluralism, and
discontents 12. Impact assessment and responsible business guidance tools
in the extractive sector: implications for engagement in Canada PART 4:
PRACTITIONER INSIGHTS 13. Meaningful stakeholder engagement and The
Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE): Guided by principles
14. An early example of engagement and consultation in the industry setting
the stage for improved social performance today 15. An early example of
engagement and consultation in the industry setting the stage for improved
social performance today 16. Consultation as an exercise in democracy that
produces a win-win understanding across the territory 17. Challenges to the
protection of consultation in Latin America: The role of the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights 18. Globally recognized sustainability standard
raising the bar for the mining sector worldwide 19. Between flaws,
setbacks, and timid progress: Findings after 25 years of mining-related
consultations CONCLUSION 20. Beyond contested stakeholder consultation
regimes: A regime in flux