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Mineral Resource Dilemma: How to Balance the Interests of Government, Local Communities and Abiotic Nature

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  • Nataliya Nikitina

    (License Department, LLC Intergeo Managing Company, Moscow 125009, Russia)

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It is noted that over the last few years the implementation of several mineral exploration, development and mining projects has been suspended and even completely stopped due to resistance from local communities. The key concerns of local residents typically include perceived or real impact of mining enterprises on the environment, unfair distribution of profits from mining and exploration activities, insufficient contributions to local government budgets and lack of transparency regarding ultimate ownership of companies conducting exploration and mining. The article looks at social conflicts of this kind and suggests some alternative solutions that could prevent such conflicts at the stage of granting exploration and mining rights.

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  • Nataliya Nikitina, 2014. "Mineral Resource Dilemma: How to Balance the Interests of Government, Local Communities and Abiotic Nature," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:11:y:2014:i:9:p:8632-8644:d:39568
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    1. Diana Bobikova & Zofia Kuzevicova & Stefan Kuzevic & Ibrahim Alkhalaf, 2022. "Proposal of a New Approach for Protected Deposit Area Registration in Public Administration Information Systems—A Case Study from Slovakia," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-22, November.
    2. Mary Thornbush, 2016. "Introduction to the Special Issue on Gender and Geoethics in the Geosciences," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-8, April.

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