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The coming copper boom presents Zambia with an extraordinary opportunity – not only to enable mining profits, but to power inclusive growth.
Traditional leaders do not adequately represent the interests of rural communities in dealing with mining companies.
Clashes between mining companies and communities are often about the age-old question of whether mining, with its adverse impacts, can benefit the many or only a selected few.
Indonesia’s revised mining law is loose on the requirements for mining companies to close pits when operations are over, potentially adding to drowning casualties.
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Associate professor, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Department, Faculty of Law, Universitas Mulawarman
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Associate Professor and Director of the SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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William Saywell Professor of International Business, Simon Fraser University
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Director of the Mandela Institute, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Social Science, The University of Melbourne
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Head of Tax for Growth, International Growth Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Researcher in Law and Policy, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Geography, Clark University