Improving security of access to customary-owned land in Melanesia: mining in Papua New Guinea

Duncan, Ronald C.; Duncan, Rod

doi:10.22459/gcppr.03.2013.05

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“…In the Australia context for example, disputes between Indigenous peoples and corporations are common, a problem that Duncan attributes to an 'asymmetry of information between developers and the mining companies, the time inconsistency of contracts, and the incompleteness of contracts' (Duncan, 2003, p. 318). What is required is better design of contracts to ensure security for companies and benefits for communities including better revenue-sharing arrangements (Duncan & Duncan, 1997). In Australia, Indigenous communities identified the need for better models on which to develop contracts.…”

Section: (B) Natural Capital and Indigenous Rights To Lands And Resoumentioning

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Avoiding the Resource Curse: Indigenous Communities and Canada’s Oil Sands

Parlee

2015

World Development

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Concerns about a resource curse in Canada have been raised in response to rapid growth in the petroleum sector in northern Alberta. In previous research, there has been little consideration of how symptoms of the resource curse are experienced and managed at a regional scale and by Indigenous communities. An analysis of effects and responses is offered using a natural, financial, human and social capitals framework. Without consideration of how to manage the symptoms of the resource curse, oil and gas activity is likely to further disadvantage Indigenous populations already living on the margins of Canadian society.

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confidence: 99%