Whose Development? Mining, Local Resistance, and Development Agendas

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ID23735929
AuthorsCatherine Coumans (0000-0003-0526-9781, corresponding author)
Year2011
Pages114-132
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGovernance Ecosystems (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230353282_8
OpenAlexW2505932270
ISBN9780230353282
LanguageEN
Citations received9

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. However, nearly 30 years of large-scale open-pit mining in the mountains of Marinduque instead became a lesson learned by communities throughout the Philippines of how mining can erode the very basis of economic sustainability and development. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Agriculture · Archaeology · Cartography · Economic growth · Economics · Fishing · Geography · Political science · Prosperity · Resistance (ecology) · Scale (ratio) · Subsistence agriculture · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Ecology · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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