Category Archives: Academic Insights

Academic Insights on Stakeholder Analysis & License to Operate

Assessing Mining’s Social Footprint: Building Models that Capture Community Realities

Defending Territory: Indigenous Resistance and Conservation Politics in the Peruvian Amazon

From Informality to Legitimacy: Rethinking Small-Scale Mining Governance in the Andes

Conservation Under Pressure: How Extractive Frontiers Collide with Protected Areas in Latin America

Consultation, Land, and Legitimacy: Understanding the Las Bambas Conflict in Peru

Lives on the Edge: Artisanal Mining and the Struggle for Livability in Ghana’s Asankragua

Gold, Water, and Survival: The Human Ecology of “Galamsey” in Ghana’s Western North

Grassroots Resistance and the Green Transition: Lessons from Serbia’s Lithium Frontier

Bridging the Divide: Large and Small-Scale Mining Interfaces in Peru

Toxic Legacies and Human Development: Childhood Exposure and Mining Pollution in Zambia