Mono-industrialism and the Struggle for Alternative Development: the Case of the Roşia Montană Gold-mining Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 539-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucian Vesalon ◽  
Remus Creţan
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Alternative Development ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Rosia Montana

Gold Mining Stakeholders: Diversity and Influence. Roșia Montană Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-146
Author(s):  
Adela Deaconu ◽  
Crina Ioana Filip
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Research Result ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Online Information ◽  
East European ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Canadian Company ◽  
Rosia Montana

Using historiography, online information and the stakeholders’ theory, this study focuses on the interested parties involved in a highly controversial gold mining project in Romania’s Roșia Montană area. The study documents the emergence and influence of different stakeholders (and the relationships between them). The research result suggests that company management and project investors (in this case involving the State as minority owner and regulator and a Canadian company as the majority owner) need to be aware of the objectives of a range of stakeholders including the general public, environmental campaigners and cultural agencies. They should identify shared stakeholder objectives and take these objectives into account when assessing the prospects of a mining project. Ultimately, these findings could be a lesson in political conduct for stakeholders involved in similar projects in other East European countries.

scholarly journals A MCDM Analysis of the Roşia Montană Gold Mining Project

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 7261-7288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Mihai ◽  
Adina Marincea ◽  
Love Ekenberg
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Rosia Montana

Engineering responsibility

Focaal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (60) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Li
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mining Activity ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
Corporate Social

Focusing on a controversial gold mining project in Chile, this article examines how engineers and other mining professionals perceive and help shape Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Compensation agreements, environmental management, and community relations programs rest on what I call a logic of equivalence that makes the environmental consequences of mining activity commensurate with the mining companies’ mitigation plans. For example, legal codes enable engineers to measure, compare, and reconcile the costs and benefits of a project. However, the law is neither fixed nor uncontestable, and companies must respond to increased public scrutiny and the growing demands of communities, governments, and international actors. In Chile, campaigns against mining focused on the presence of glaciers at the mine site and the project’s possible effects on water availability. By introducing new moral dimensions to debates over corporate responsibility, these campaigns challenged established strategies of commensuration and existing ethical guideposts.

scholarly journals Simulating Environmental Impacts Based On The Example Of Roşia Montană

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Gábor Barton
Keyword(s):  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Open Cast Mining ◽  
Public Hearings ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Surrounding Landscape ◽  
Open Cast ◽  
Terrain Modelling ◽  
Rosia Montana

Abstract One of the challenges of modern terrain modelling methods is to incorporate non-existing, planned features in the output. Remote sensing based solutions can only detect structures and shapes that are already present in the environment. In order to assess the impacts of a planned development on the surrounding landscape properly it is inevitable to solve this issue. In addition to the environmental, social and economic consequences, mining activities, especially open cast mining will also leave significant scars on the landscape. These can not only have a visual effect but also impact local weather conditions by changing winds, precipitation patterns. The current paper demonstrates a collection of methods and techniques able to cope with the various challenges that arise when modelling the landscape impacts of such developments. The experiments were performed in the area of Roşia Montană, where a Canadian company plans to create the largest open cast gold mine in Europe. The results of the terrain modelling process allow for the quantification of the estimated impacts on the terrain and the land cover of the area caused by the mining project. The presented methodology and visualisation tools can also facilitate the decision support mechanisms making the communication ‘more understandable’ amongst stakeholders; information meetings and public hearings involving organizing groups at any level. Obtaining the results required the development of several unconventional techniques especially in terrain modelling and visual landscape simulation, involving the combination of sometimes very different base methods.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED DISPLACEMENT IN ROMANIA: THE CASE OF ROŞIA MONTANĂ MINING PROJECT

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucian VESALON ◽  
Remus CREȚAN
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Compensation Mechanism ◽  
Mining Company ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Displacement Processes

This paper proposes a critical discussion of the population displacement processes involved in the Ro?ia Montan? gold-mining project within the theoretical framework of development-induced displacement (DID). We begin with an overview of the geographical context of the rural community, focusing on the social and economic structure of Ro?ia Montan?. After assessing the relocation and resettlement processes, we examine several problems related to the compensation mechanism set up by the mining company. The aim of the research is to highlight the complexity of the consequences of development-induced displacement and the limits of the policies of relocation and resettlement in the area.

Water pollution in gold mining industry: a case study in Roşia Montană district, Romania

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 1132-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Florea ◽  
A. I. Stoica ◽  
G. E. Baiulescu ◽  
P. Capotă
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Rosia Montana

scholarly journals Capitalism and Religious Behavior: The Case of Tumpang Pitu Gold Mining In Banyuwangi

Al-Albab ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Anang Gunaifi Alfian
Keyword(s):  
Gold Mining ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
Gold Mine ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Ethical Relations

In the discourse of globalization, religious agency plays an important role ranging from supporter to the opposition of the globalization. However, the understanding of globalization should involve its encounter with localities. In religious studies, religious responses can be an entry point to see how global issues impact the practice of religion. Selecting the case of the conflict over gold mine at Tumpang Pitu near Banyuwangi, East Java, as a place of conflict and encounter between capitalism and religious behavior is significant in portraying the dynamics within religious agency. Here, capitalism is discussed as the popular term among the rejecters of the mining, together with religious behavior as expression, logic, attitudes of religion. Therefore, this research is aimed to investigate the effects of gold mining project Tumpang Pitu toward religious behavior. To emphasize the study on the working of global issues and religious locality, the research employed ethnography of global connection proposed by Anna L Tsing (2005) added with religious account. The result shows that the conflict within traditionalist religious affiliation as seen in the debate over its position on the mine, a conflict extending from the grassroots to the highest level, reflects the struggle within Indonesian Islam over effective and ethical relations with global capitalism.

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