Mining in the Asia-Pacific
Mining in the Asia-Pacific

Author: Terry O’Callaghan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-06

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 3319613952

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This book provides the most comprehensive survey of mining activity and the principal challenges confronting the resources industry in the Asia-Pacific region today, and presents new theoretical and practical insights into the political and business risks faced by mining companies operating in the region from both academic and corporate perspectives. It focuses on the exploration, production and trade of the principal commodities coal, iron ore, uranium, oil and gas, and gold, as well as the emerging commodities unconventional gas and rare earth minerals, provides the reader with a valuable understanding of resource activity in the region. In addition, it also integrates and draws attention to eight key issue areas which have the potential to pose significant risks, challenges and opportunities for the industry going forward, which include sustainable development, resource governance and economic contributions, declining ore grades and territorial expansion, community aspects of mining, mining and indigenous peoples, climate change, and impact assessment. The contributors to this volume are experts in their respective fields, and the diversity of voices makes this book a must read for scholars, industry participants, investors and policy-makers with an interest in mining in the Asia-Pacific.​

Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics
Large-scale Mines and Local-level Politics

Author: Colin Filer

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1760461504

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Despite the difference in their populations and political status, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea have comparable levels of economic dependence on the extraction and export of mineral resources. For this reason, the costs and benefits of large-scale mining projects for indigenous communities has been a major political issue in both jurisdictions, and one that has come to be negotiated through multiple channels at different levels of political organisation. The ‘resource boom’ that took place in the early years of the current century has only served to intensify the political contests and conflicts that surround the distribution of social, economic and environmental costs and benefits between community members and other ‘stakeholders’ in the large-scale mining industry. However, the mutual isolation of Anglophone and Francophone scholars has formed a barrier to systematic comparison of the relationship between large-scale mines and local-level politics in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia, despite their geographical proximity. This collection of essays represents an effort to overcome this barrier, but is also intended as a major contribution to the growth of academic and political debate about the social impact of the large-scale mining industry in Melanesia and beyond.

The Contribution of Transnational Mining Corporations to the Asia-Pacific Region
The Contribution of Transnational Mining Corporations to the Asia-Pacific Region

Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Publisher: New York : United Nations

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 9789211196672

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A compilation of regional studies, most presented at a seminar held in August 1992 in Guangzhou, China on the comparative analysis of taxation policies for the ESCAP (UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) region's minerals and metals industries. Additional reports were prepared by consultants from India and Papua New Guinea to illustrate the contributions of transnational corporations in two very different country-specific situations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR