Historicizing Sustainable Livelihoods: A Pathways Approach to Lead Mining in Rural Central China

Jixia Lu and Anna Lora-Wainwright

World Development, 2014, vol. 62, issue C, 189-200

Abstract: This article adopts a “pathways to sustainability” approach to study lead mining in rural China. Through an in-depth case study, it reveals how shifting mining practices are tied to institutional and political economic contexts, cost-benefit distribution, and changes in livelihood resources and strategies. It weaves together an analysis of livelihood practices with a study of attitudes to livelihood and environment, which are usually researched separately. In turn, it demonstrates that a longitudinal analysis may resolve the contradictory accounts of whether mining aids or hinders development, and whether local communities are victims or beneficiaries of such development.

Keywords: mining; pathways to sustainability; livelihood; rural development; Asia; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.006

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