Living with coal in India
A temporal study of livelihood changes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13068226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrik Oskarsson (0000-0003-1504-4295, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, corresponding author), Radhika Krishnan (0000-0001-6225-1989, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad), Kuntala Lahiri‐dutt (0000-0003-1336-1422, Australian National University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Pages | 101437-101437 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Extractive Industries and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2214-790X • E-ISSN: 2214-7918 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.exis.2024.101437 |
| OpenAlex | W4391923229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article asks what it is like for the rural poor to live with coal over time as mines expand and agriculture and forest-dependent ways of living inevitably become more restricted. Research on the expansion of open pit coal mining in India shows a widespread inability to appropriately compensate the rural poor for lost land and access to common property resources. Yet it is simultaneously clear that the growth of coal extraction over time ensures increased community dependence on mainly informal, coal-based livelihoods. What then happens over the long-term for people who live in and around the coalfields? Drawing on evidence from 2011 to 2022, this article explores longer term changes for mine-affected people next to major coal mines in Telangana state, India. Specifically, it examines a) the acquisition of forest and agricultural lands for the expanding mines, b) the operating mines and their environmental implications, but also improved job opportunities, and c) mine closure as an opportunity to rehabilitate the landscape and return the land for alternative community uses post mining. The results add to the understanding of the long-term changes that large-scale mining brings to rural communities, and the challenges to a just transition once coal mining inevitably comes to an end
Agriculture · Business · Closure (psychology · Coal · Coal mining · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource economics · Political science · Scale (ratio · State (computer science · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Understanding the drivers of informal economy of coal mining
Do you think that coal will finish?”
Just transition beyond extraction
Justice in transition
Unequal Lives and Shared Spaces
Aspects of development
Examining community desire to change for adaptive transition in post-mining ecological sustainability
The Many Faces of Labouring and a “24 × 7” Union
A Just Transition or a Downward Spiral? Land and Livelihood Transitions to and Away From Coal Mining in India
Mining and indigenous peoples in Australasia
Dams and Development
Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest cover and community rights
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana
Landlock
Governing India’s bauxite mineral expansion
Condemned to the periphery
Our own law is making us beggars’
If the gas runs out, we are not going to sleep hungry’
Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape
Transnational land investment web
The Judicial Fix for Forest Loss
Governance Institutions, Resource Rights Regimes, and the Informal Mining Sector
Roles and status of women in extractive industries in India
Migrant Workers in the Coal Mines of India
Mining and Social Movements
From Incremental Dispossession to a Cumulative Land Grab
Governing Global Land Deals
Mining, the Environment, and Indigenous Development Conflicts
The Politics of Dispossession
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 4.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |