Mining and development in Sierra Leone negotiating change and navigating uncertainty / Robert Jan Pijpers.
| Author/creator | Pijpers, Robert Jan |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development Routledge studies of the extractive industries and sustainable development. ^A1357593 |
| Abstract | "Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the processes of development and change that mark resource extraction environments globally. Across the world, resource extraction is assigned an important role in development agendas. Yet a key question is how development opportunities are given shape and accessed, and how extraction's negative impacts are dealt with in actual politics and practices. Set in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone during a global mining boom, this book shows how mining-cum-development's multifaceted effects materialize. By taking the micro-politics of large-scale mining as its principle focus, the book analyzes a range of the most perplexing phenomena of life in Sierra Leone, and scrutinizes the intricate and contentious processes of change unfolding in mining environments. Mining and Development in Sierra Leone goes beyond promise-or-problem dichotomies, offers key insights into the struggle for progress that characterizes the mining-development nexus and provides innovative understandings of the resourceful ways in which different actors negotiate change and navigate uncertainty. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working on resource extraction, large-scale investments, globalization, and development, as well as to development practitioners, mining professionals and policymakers"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pijpers, Robert Jan. Mining and development in Sierra Leone London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025 9781032480688 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024027699 |
| ISBN | 9781040186701 ebook |
| ISBN | 9781003391043 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |