Desalination in Chile's mining regions: Global drivers and local impacts of a technological fix to hydrosocial conflict

The term ‘pollution’ is taken in its broadest sense and effects are recognized to be due to interference, tainting and toxicity. Each of these types of impact is discussed and assessed. It is concluded that no long-term adverse effects on fish stocks can be attributed to oil but that local impacts can be extremely damaging in the short term and that produce from specific localities can be tainted and unmarketable for long periods. In some coastal areas oil can be one among several contributors to reduced water quality, and the implications of this are discussed.

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Water Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment: The Complementary Strengths of Analyzing Global Freshwater Appropriation and Resulting Local Impacts

Water ◽

10.3390/w13060803 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 803

Author(s):

Winnie Gerbens-Leenes ◽

Markus Berger ◽

John Anthony Allan

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Water Consumption ◽

Water Footprint ◽

Local Impacts ◽

Global Water

Considering that 4 billion people are living in water-stressed regions and that global water consumption is predicted to increase continuously [...]

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Are the households in coal mining regions more vulnerable? A study in Talcher Coalfield of India

Mineral Economics ◽

10.1007/s13563-021-00266-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gayatree Sahoo ◽

Asis Kumar Senapati

Keyword(s):

Coal Mining ◽

Talcher Coalfield ◽

Mining Regions

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Just Transition as a Tool for Preventing Energy Poverty among Women in Mining Areas—A Case Study of the Silesia Region, Poland

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14123372 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (12) ◽

pp. 3372

Author(s):

Olga Janikowska ◽

Joanna Kulczycka

Keyword(s):

Age Groups ◽

Single Women ◽

Coal Industry ◽

Major Conclusion ◽

Energy Transformation ◽

Energy Poverty ◽

Mining Areas ◽

Transition Strategy ◽

Mining Regions

The inevitable energy transformation can be perceived as an opportunity and as a threat to the actions undertaken to prevent energy poverty in European mining regions. Silesia is a special exemplification of the European region whose economy has been based on coal industry for centuries. There are still about 70,000 miners and coal is also widely used for heating households. Based on developed map of jobs lost in mining and related industry and the demographic and social data the proposal of activities addressed to different group of people has been created. It was also indicated that energy poverty in Poland mainly concerns households inhabited by single women. Therefore, the major conclusion of the paper is postulated that the Just Transition strategy should be extended by issues strictly related to the situation of women in the future labor market. Additionally, the concept of a special hub for women, whose aim would be professional activation of women of various age groups, has been introduced.

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The limits of a technological fix

Nature Food ◽

10.1038/s43016-021-00275-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 211-211

Keyword(s):

Technological Fix

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Underground Multiculturalism: Contentious Cultural Politics in Gold-Mining Regions in Chocó, Colombia

Journal of Latin American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022216x2000098x ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-28

Author(s):

Jesse Jonkman

Keyword(s):

Cultural Politics ◽

Gold Mining ◽

Political Life ◽

Mining Activities ◽

Unique Form ◽

Gold Extraction ◽

Mining Regions ◽

Instrumental Role ◽

Community Councils

Abstract This article maps the contentious forms of political life that emerge when multicultural rights and non-formal gold extraction coincide. Specifically, it shows how, in the Colombian department of Chocó, Afro-descendant community councils have produced a unique form of mining governance that, while depending for its legitimacy on everyday uses of Afro-Colombian legislation, consists of the organisation, taxation and policing of mining activities that are in tension with official notions of extractive and multicultural law. In exploring such ‘underground’ cultural politics, the article highlights the limits of state-centric analyses of ‘neoliberal multiculturalism’ and, accordingly, underscores the instrumental role that governed subjects play in the on-the-ground unfolding of multicultural governance regimes.

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