Catherine Coumans
Biographic Data
| ID | 86442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Coumans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Coumans |
| SIGNATURE | COUMANS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | MiningWatch Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0526-9781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is everything new old again? Deep seabed mining’s unprecedented ecosystem risks are exacerbated by environmental and governance practices imported from terrestrial mining
Minding the “governance gaps”
Into the deep
National and international deliberations about whether the global mining industry should be permitted to use the earth's seas as mine waste dumps are not decided on the basis of independent scientific data from past or existing sites. Nor is a critical lack of scientific knowledge about the deep sea environment and about the long-term consequences of marine dumping triggering the precautionary principle for proposed projects. Rather, governments …
Do no harm? Mining industry responses to the responsibility to respect human rights
This article examines responses of mining industry associations and companies to increasing pressure on the sector to ensure that its activities respect human rights, defined as “do no harm”. Examples illuminate key moments in an evolving industry response starting in the mid-2000s with scepticism that human rights should, or could, provide operationalisable standards for the sector, to subsumption of human rights under voluntary corporate social…
Whose Development? Mining, Local Resistance, and Development Agendas
Whose Development? Mining, Local Resistance, and Development Agendas
Local resistance to mining’s negative impacts on development In the 1960s, villagers on the small island of Marinduque in the Philippines lived mainly on subsistence fishing and farming with copra, bananas, and marine products as their main sources of trade and income, until 1969 when the opening of a world-class copper mining operation co-owned and managed by Canada’s Placer Dome 1 raised new expectations for economic prosperity in the region. H…
Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict
Regulators, investors, and communities are increasingly aware of the potential environmental and social harm associated with open-pit mining projects. Local-level conflict is now commonly associated with proposed and operating mines as community members struggle to protect economic and social values of importance to them, to assert the right to refuse a mine, or to advance claims on mining companies for damages. In response, mining companies seek…
Alternative Accountability Mechanisms and Mining
In the absence of a global regulatory system or international legal system to hold multinational corporations to account for their operations in weak-governance zones, a range of internationally applicable alternative accountability mechanisms have emerged under the broad rubric of corporate social responsibility. In Canada a parliamentary report initiated high-level efforts to design CSR accountability mechanisms with respect to the operations o…
Visayan Vignettes
Dumont's title signals reader that here one may find an example of widely discussed, but still rarely written, ethnography. By crossing over and drawing on a term traditionally associated with impressionistic tales in humanities, vignettes, and emphasizing nature of his work by referring to its ethnographic accounts as traces, Dumont clearly breaks with boldly definitive and unself-consciously positivistic titles of most modernist ethnographies. …
Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict
Regulators, investors, and communities are increasingly aware of the potential environmental and social harm associated with open-pit mining projects. Local-level conflict is now commonly associated with proposed and operating mines as community members struggle to protect economic and social values of importance to them, to assert the right to refuse a mine, or to advance claims on mining companies for damages. In response, mining companies seek…
Alternative Accountability Mechanisms and Mining
In the absence of a global regulatory system or international legal system to hold multinational corporations to account for their operations in weak-governance zones, a range of internationally applicable alternative accountability mechanisms have emerged under the broad rubric of corporate social responsibility. In Canada a parliamentary report initiated high-level efforts to design CSR accountability mechanisms with respect to the operations o…
Do no harm? Mining industry responses to the responsibility to respect human rights
This article examines responses of mining industry associations and companies to increasing pressure on the sector to ensure that its activities respect human rights, defined as “do no harm”. Examples illuminate key moments in an evolving industry response starting in the mid-2000s with scepticism that human rights should, or could, provide operationalisable standards for the sector, to subsumption of human rights under voluntary corporate social…
Into the deep
National and international deliberations about whether the global mining industry should be permitted to use the earth's seas as mine waste dumps are not decided on the basis of independent scientific data from past or existing sites. Nor is a critical lack of scientific knowledge about the deep sea environment and about the long-term consequences of marine dumping triggering the precautionary principle for proposed projects. Rather, governments …
Minding the “governance gaps”
Visayan Vignettes
Dumont's title signals reader that here one may find an example of widely discussed, but still rarely written, ethnography. By crossing over and drawing on a term traditionally associated with impressionistic tales in humanities, vignettes, and emphasizing nature of his work by referring to its ethnographic accounts as traces, Dumont clearly breaks with boldly definitive and unself-consciously positivistic titles of most modernist ethnographies. …
Alternative Accountability Mechanisms and Mining
In the absence of a global regulatory system or international legal system to hold multinational corporations to account for their operations in weak-governance zones, a range of internationally applicable alternative accountability mechanisms have emerged under the broad rubric of corporate social responsibility. In Canada a parliamentary report initiated high-level efforts to design CSR accountability mechanisms with respect to the operations o…
Whose Development? Mining, Local Resistance, and Development Agendas
Local resistance to mining’s negative impacts on development In the 1960s, villagers on the small island of Marinduque in the Philippines lived mainly on subsistence fishing and farming with copra, bananas, and marine products as their main sources of trade and income, until 1969 when the opening of a world-class copper mining operation co-owned and managed by Canada’s Placer Dome 1 raised new expectations for economic prosperity in the region. H…
Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict
Regulators, investors, and communities are increasingly aware of the potential environmental and social harm associated with open-pit mining projects. Local-level conflict is now commonly associated with proposed and operating mines as community members struggle to protect economic and social values of importance to them, to assert the right to refuse a mine, or to advance claims on mining companies for damages. In response, mining companies seek…
Whose Development? Mining, Local Resistance, and Development Agendas
Do no harm? Mining industry responses to the responsibility to respect human rights
This article examines responses of mining industry associations and companies to increasing pressure on the sector to ensure that its activities respect human rights, defined as “do no harm”. Examples illuminate key moments in an evolving industry response starting in the mid-2000s with scepticism that human rights should, or could, provide operationalisable standards for the sector, to subsumption of human rights under voluntary corporate social…
Into the deep
National and international deliberations about whether the global mining industry should be permitted to use the earth's seas as mine waste dumps are not decided on the basis of independent scientific data from past or existing sites. Nor is a critical lack of scientific knowledge about the deep sea environment and about the long-term consequences of marine dumping triggering the precautionary principle for proposed projects. Rather, governments …
Minding the “governance gaps”
Is everything new old again? Deep seabed mining’s unprecedented ecosystem risks are exacerbated by environmental and governance practices imported from terrestrial mining
Mining and Resource Management (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)