Deanna Kemp
Biographic Data
| ID | 3729447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deanna Kemp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemp |
| SIGNATURE | KEMP D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1435-2694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The rise of brownfield mining is reshaping global mineral supply and intensifying social and environmental risk
What remains: Disaster risk and emergency preparedness in a Chilean mining town
On 28 March 1965, an earthquake triggered the collapse of a mine waste facility at the El Soldado copper mine in central Chile. The failure released a massive volume of tailings that destroyed the adjacent El Cobre settlement and caused significant loss of life. Most of the victims remain buried beneath the tailings. Despite the scale of the disaster, the mine resumed operations and continues to operate today. Survivors and their families, who ca…
Climate change, biodiversity, and the energy transition: The potential role of the UN’s declaration on peasants’ rights
A holistic framework for examining complex problems in energy transition solutions
Global mining and the production of inequality: A case for continued inquiry
Implications of the UN declaration on the rights of peasants on the operability of the IFC's performance standard on involuntary land acquisition and resettlement
The catastrophic failure of the Jagersfontein tailings dam: An industrial disaster 150 years in the making
This study provides a sociohistorical account of decisions made over a 150-year period about the Jagersfontein mine in South Africa’s Free State and the catastrophic failure of its tailings dam that occurred in the early morning of 11 September 2022. The failure resulted in the sudden and uncontrolled release of more than 6 million m3 of liquid sludge, smothering nearly 200 nearby houses and approximately 1,600 ha of agricultural and grazing land…
Disaster scenes as a foundation for emergency response planning
This article introduces the notion of ‘disaster scenes’. In this work, we draw on interview data collected from residents impacted by the Jagersfontein tailings disaster in South Africa in September 2022. Our methodological aim is to reconstruct the experiences of impacted people in the format of empirically derived disaster scenes. These scenes provide a credible source for modelling scenarios because they showcase the prior, immediate, response…
Corporate Responses to Community Grievance: Voluntarism and Pathologies of Practice
Grievance landscapes form in rapidly industrialising contexts where social and environmental impacts are inevitable. This paper focuses on the complex operational and organisational settings in which grievances arise and the industrial pathologies that form around resource development projects. The arguments draw on classic and contemporary literature on “grievance”, “right” and “entitlement”, and the authors’ own sustained engagement with global…
Researching “resource frontiers” is vital for understanding the human consequences of scaling up renewable energy technologies
Scaling renewable energy technologies to mitigate climate change requires transition minerals in volumes much greater than currently mined. Increasing the volume and speed of mining means some places will face unprecedented change and disruption. Researching “resource frontiers” is vital to better understand the local consequences of global climate policies. Scaling renewable energy technologies to mitigate climate change requires transition mine…
Mapping critical minerals projects and their intersection with Indigenous peoples' land rights in Australia
Vastly increased quantities of minerals and metals are needed to scale up renewable energy technologies. Indigenous peoples globally are voicing concerns about how this will affect the speed and scale of mining and renewable energy development on their lands and territories. In this paper, we delineate areas of Australia where Indigenous peoples' interests in land are formally recognised under legislation. These areas are overlayed with critical …
Systematic Review of GIS and Remote Sensing Applications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Mining
As the mining industry expands, a comprehensive understanding of its socioeconomic risks and benefits is urgently needed. This paper systematically reviews 71 studies (1996–2021) that utilized spatially integrated approaches to evaluate socioeconomic mining impacts. The number of studies that utilize geographic information systems and remote sensing to study mining impacts increased from 2014 onwards. A framework was used to classify the mining i…
How do past global experiences of coal phase-out inform China’s domestic approach to a just transition
China produces nearly half of the world’s coal and more than half of the global coal-fired electricity. Its CO 2 emissions are higher than the combined volumes of the next three world regions—the US, Europe, and India. China has announced a net-zero commitment by 2060. This timeline creates enormous pressure to maintain energy security while phasing down coal use. Despite the localized nature of China’s coal production with nearly 80% of its ther…
Research at the frontier: Making visible the intersection between Indigenous peoples’ lands, industrial development, and rights at risk
Afterword to special issue
Energy transition minerals and their intersection with land-connected peoples
Rapidly transitioning the global energy system to renewables is considered necessary to combat climate change. Current estimates suggest that at least 30 energy transition minerals and metals (ETMs) form the material base for the energy transition. The inventory of ETMs indicates a high level of intersectionality with territories less impacted by the historic forces of industrialization. To identify the current global footprint, 5,097 ETM project…
Fast track to failure? Energy transition minerals and the future of consultation and consent
Energy transition mineral and metals (ETM) are being widely discussed for their utility in combating climate change. However, their contribution with respect to social and environmental impact does not feature prominently in contemporary debates. In this paper we present findings showing the extent to which the world's ETM projects will intersect with Indigenous Peoples' and Peasant lands – the lands of people who under existing United Nations-le…
A global vulnerability analysis of displacement caused by resource development projects
Public–Private Inquiries: Institutional Intermediaries and the Transparency Nexus in Global Resource Development
Privately commissioned public inquiries in extractive industries are an enormously rich source of data for scholars of global environmental politics. This untapped arena comprises a series of unconventional inquiries in response to contentious socioenvironmental events and incidents, whereby large resource companies commission studies, relinquish control over the process, and publicly release findings. These inquiries are an episodic but persiste…
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition
The concept of a ‘just transition’ to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political economy elaborated in The Great Transformation , we interrogate the idea of a just transition and place it within its historical context. We address a major contradiction at the core of global energy transition debates: the rapid shift to low‐carbon energy‐systems will r…
An applied framework for assessing the relative deprivation of dam‐affected communities
Over the past half century, hydropower dams have displaced 40–80 million people around the world. In the development literature, the outcome of these shocks is represented in the form of “absolute deprivation.” The policy norms surrounding development‐induced displacement and resettlement, across all industries, prioritize compensation as the primary means through which to address any short‐term deprivation caused by the shock of displacement. On…
The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy transition metals
Environmental, social and governance pressures should feature in future scenario planning about the transition to a low carbon future. As low-carbon energy technologies advance, markets are driving demand for energy transition metals. Increased extraction rates will augment the stress placed on people and the environment in extractive locations. To quantify this stress, we develop a set of global composite environmental, social and governance ind…
Catastrophic tailings dam failures and disaster risk disclosure
The global mining industry produces billions of tonnes of mine tailings each year. This slurry of waste material is often contained in dams, which are among some of the world’s largest engineered structures. Several recent and catastrophic tailings dam disasters bring the complex interaction between a mine and its local operating context into plain sight. The absence of public, timely, multi-scalar information about the multiple dimensions of thi…
Country-level governance frameworks for mining-induced resettlement
Invisibility and the extractive-pandemic nexus
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition
The concept of a ‘just transition’ to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political economy elaborated in The Great Transformation , we interrogate the idea of a just transition and place it within its historical context. We address a major contradiction at the core of global energy transition debates: the rapid shift to low‐carbon energy‐systems will r…
Fast track to failure? Energy transition minerals and the future of consultation and consent
Energy transition mineral and metals (ETM) are being widely discussed for their utility in combating climate change. However, their contribution with respect to social and environmental impact does not feature prominently in contemporary debates. In this paper we present findings showing the extent to which the world's ETM projects will intersect with Indigenous Peoples' and Peasant lands – the lands of people who under existing United Nations-le…
The industrial ethic, corporate refusal and the demise of the social function in mining
The social function in mining is in a state of decline. Recent changes among the world's major mining companies suggest that corporations are responding to the dual pressure of profit maximization and sustainable development by cutting back on the social function of their business. Our approach draws on two conceptual platforms to describe and analyse the development and the subsequent demise of the “social function” in the global mining industry…
Energy transition minerals and their intersection with land-connected peoples
Rapidly transitioning the global energy system to renewables is considered necessary to combat climate change. Current estimates suggest that at least 30 energy transition minerals and metals (ETMs) form the material base for the energy transition. The inventory of ETMs indicates a high level of intersectionality with territories less impacted by the historic forces of industrialization. To identify the current global footprint, 5,097 ETM project…
Households, livelihoods and mining-induced displacement and resettlement
Mapping critical minerals projects and their intersection with Indigenous peoples' land rights in Australia
Vastly increased quantities of minerals and metals are needed to scale up renewable energy technologies. Indigenous peoples globally are voicing concerns about how this will affect the speed and scale of mining and renewable energy development on their lands and territories. In this paper, we delineate areas of Australia where Indigenous peoples' interests in land are formally recognised under legislation. These areas are overlayed with critical …
Characterising the interface between large and small-scale mining
Displaced by mine waste: The social consequences of industrial risk-taking
Mining, mobility and sustainable development: An introduction
Mining and community relations: Mapping the internal dimensions of practice
A global vulnerability analysis of displacement caused by resource development projects
An applied framework for assessing the relative deprivation of dam‐affected communities
Over the past half century, hydropower dams have displaced 40–80 million people around the world. In the development literature, the outcome of these shocks is represented in the form of “absolute deprivation.” The policy norms surrounding development‐induced displacement and resettlement, across all industries, prioritize compensation as the primary means through which to address any short‐term deprivation caused by the shock of displacement. On…
Corporate affairs and the conquest of social performance in mining
From pay‐out to participation: Indigenous mining employment as local development
Unprecedented numbers of Indigenous peoples in Canada and Australia are working in the mining industry. This study explores the proposition that Indigenous mining employment is a form of local development for these peoples. We establish links between the literatures on Indigenous work in the mining industry with development theory. For employment to be considered a form of local development we maintain that it must be understood through the frame…
On the limits of in-reach: A reply to Harvey
Corporate Readiness and the Human Rights Risks of Applying FPIC in the Global Mining Industry
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Grievance handling at a foreign-owned mine in Southeast Asia
Invisibility and the extractive-pandemic nexus
Just Relations and Company–Community Conflict in Mining
Social licence and mining: A critical perspective
Community relations and mining: Core to business but not “core business”
Over the past two decades the global mining industry has witnessed the necessity and emergence of community relations and development (CRD) functions, essentially under the rubric of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility (CSR). These functions provide companies with mechanisms through which to engage and manage their relationships with key stakeholder groups, share development benefits and protect business interests. Despite…
Human rights and impact assessment: Clarifying the connections in practice
Historically, impact assessment practice has not explicitly considered human rights. That human rights are relevant to business has been confirmed through the United Nations Human Rights Council's endorsement of the ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’. Special Representative to the Secretary-General on business and human rights, Professor John Ruggie, advocated awareness of ‘rights-holders’ and ‘duty-bearers’ and a shift from third …
Human Rights and Impact Assessment
Conflict translates environmental and social risk into business costs
Significance In this report we investigate company–community conflict and its role in the regulation of sustainability performance in the extractive industries. We estimate the cost of conflict to companies and identify conflict as an important means through which environmental and social risks are translated into business costs and decision-making. The paper clarifies the relationship between the environmental and social risk experienced—and int…
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America , by Anthony Bebbington & Jeffrey Bury
I. This book represents a comprehensive examination of extractive industries in Latin America from the perspective of political ecology. The editors approach the subject matter from the analytical
Mining and community relations: Mapping the internal dimensions of practice
Mining-induced displacement and resettlement: A critical appraisal
Physical displacement, relocation and resettlement are widely acknowledged as posing enormous social risk. For over four decades, scholars, campaigners and project-affected people have sought to highlight the effects of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR). Increasingly, the generic set of international standards that are used to manage cases of DIDR are being tested by the unique challenges posed by mining-induced displacemen…
Households, livelihoods and mining-induced displacement and resettlement
On the limits of in-reach: A reply to Harvey
Grievance handling at a foreign-owned mine in Southeast Asia
Corporate Readiness and the Human Rights Risks of Applying FPIC in the Global Mining Industry
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Displacement, resettlement and livelihoods
Editorial
Global perspectives on the state of resettlement practice in mining
This article presents the results of a global study on resettlement practice in the mining industry. We examine how international policy commitments are operationalised by the mining sector and how practitioners from across the institutional spectrum engage with planning and implementation efforts by the industry. Interviews were conducted with 52 senior practitioners from mining companies, consultancies, international finance institutions and in…
How do national mining industry associations compare on sustainable development
Mining, mobility and sustainable development: An introduction
The industrial ethic, corporate refusal and the demise of the social function in mining
The social function in mining is in a state of decline. Recent changes among the world's major mining companies suggest that corporations are responding to the dual pressure of profit maximization and sustainable development by cutting back on the social function of their business. Our approach draws on two conceptual platforms to describe and analyse the development and the subsequent demise of the “social function” in the global mining industry…
Developing social impact assessment guidelines in a pre-existing policy context
Few jurisdictions have translated internationally agreed social impact assessment (SIA) principles into statutory provisions. Governments and regulatory bodies tend to provide developers with high-level frameworks, or require that social impacts be ‘considered’, without specifying how this is to be done. In Australia, this lack of clarity leaves all parties uncertain about requirements for SIA. The New South Wales (NSW) Government’s 2017 release …
Characterising the interface between large and small-scale mining
Displaced by mine waste: The social consequences of industrial risk-taking
The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy transition metals
Environmental, social and governance pressures should feature in future scenario planning about the transition to a low carbon future. As low-carbon energy technologies advance, markets are driving demand for energy transition metals. Increased extraction rates will augment the stress placed on people and the environment in extractive locations. To quantify this stress, we develop a set of global composite environmental, social and governance ind…
Catastrophic tailings dam failures and disaster risk disclosure
The global mining industry produces billions of tonnes of mine tailings each year. This slurry of waste material is often contained in dams, which are among some of the world’s largest engineered structures. Several recent and catastrophic tailings dam disasters bring the complex interaction between a mine and its local operating context into plain sight. The absence of public, timely, multi-scalar information about the multiple dimensions of thi…
Country-level governance frameworks for mining-induced resettlement
Invisibility and the extractive-pandemic nexus
Mining and Resource Management (43 works) · Political science (38 works) · Business (34 works) · Law (25 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (22 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · Sociology (16 works)