Contested water- and miningscapes – Explaining the high intensity of water and mining conflicts in a meta-study

Mirja Schoderer and Marlen Ott

World Development, 2022, vol. 154, issue C

Abstract: Conflicts around access to, control over, and quality of water accompany mining projects all over the globe. Often, they are associated with high intensity as means of contestation range from verbal complaints to protest marches, civil disobedience and violent confrontations. While numerous case studies on water-related mining conflicts exist, scholarship that synthesizes insights remains rare. In order to better understand the dynamics that lead to the escalation of conflicts and to further theory development on the role of, e.g., political economic contexts, hydro-social conditions and social relationships, a systematic overview of the existing empirical evidence is needed.

Keywords: Water; Mining; Extractive industries; Conflicts; Resistance; Contestation; Qualitative comparative analysis; QCA; Literature review; Social movements; Meta-study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105888

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