The Little Chernobyl of Romania: The Legacy of a Uranium Mine as Negotiation Platform for Sustainable Development and the Role of New Ethics

Petrescu, Dacinia Crina; Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Mălina; Tenter, Ancuta Radu

doi:10.1007/s10806-019-09766-3

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“…Within the land grabbing context, normative ethics contribute to the debate on specific narratives that encompass social equity, human capabilities, or environment protection. In this analysis, ethics is valued as a social construct built by negotiating interpretations of morally desirable situations and behaviors accepted in a particular society (Romanian society, in the present case) at a specific historical moment [75]. This definition of ethics needs some more clarification.…”

Section: Ethical Capitalism and The Need For Ethics In Large-scale Land Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to Varvasovszky and Brugha [89], stakeholder analysis assesses the influence of these interests on decision making or implementation processes. Landowners' perceptions are worthy of investigation as any change or maintenance of the status quo in land transactions is possible only with their involvement which depends on their perceptions, knowledge, and needs [75].…”

Section: Ethical Capitalism and The Need For Ethics In Large-scale Land Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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Foreign land grabbing is acknowledged as a phenomenon that generates disempowerment and dispossession of local farmers, human rights violations. Previous studies have revealed the lack of ethical benchmarks in foreign large-scale land transactions that raise moral concerns. It is evident that when resources are scarce and people depend on them, the balance between values and interests transforms itself into a dilemma. Within this context, the aims of the paper were to bring to the fore critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions and to extend the scant information on what factors determine landowners not to sell their land to foreigners to limit land grabbing. This context justifies the need for a critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions. Therefore, two objectives were set. The first one is to document the role of ethics in large-scale land transactions. Based on the land grabbing literature, authors selected a set of eight land grabbing narratives, most often interrelated and overlapping, that pose ethical considerations. The second objective is to reveal how well a set of variables can predict the “Resistance to sell” the land to foreigners even when an attractive price is offered. As ethics is a social construct, the analysis captured the stakeholders’ perspective on land grabbing. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied to a sample of 332 Romanian landowners from twelve randomly selected counties to reveal their perceptions. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to observe how well a set of seven variables could predict landowners’ “Resistance to sell” their land to foreign buyers. The use of PLS-SEM was justified by the existence of single items and the need to examine many structural model relations. Results showed that the variables with the strongest contribution to the prediction of the dependent variable are the “Probability to join an association for farmers rights defense”, the “Importance of the land price offered by the potential foreign buyer”, and the “Perceived effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land”. Raising awareness on the importance of buyer attributes, increasing people’s perception of the negative effect of agricultural land conversion to urban land, or strengthening the state’s image as a necessary actor to limit land grabbing will increase landowners’ resistance to sell their land to foreigners. Finally, it can be inferred that, within this frame of discussion, ethics should be valued as a means to create economically viable and morally justifiable solutions for foreign large-scale land transactions.

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Section: Ethical Capitalism and The Need For Ethics In Large-scale Land Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ethical Capitalism and The Need For Ethics In Large-scale Land Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Petrescu-Mag

Kopaei

Petrescu

2021

Land

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“…Step 2: Data for the second step of the methodology was gathered using an interview designed to obtain information on the local communities from respondents who were actively involved in the public life and/or were affiliated with mining activities from the study area. Therefore, thirty-nine (39) interviews were conducted between April and May, 2019, the interview respondents being selected from among local authorities (mayors, deputy mayors, head of the emergency department), local public institutions (doctors, teachers), local entrepreneurs (shopkeepers, touristic venue owners, and lawyers), the mining industry (former miners, employees/former employees of the mining companies), and mining opposition groups (environmental activists) from the region. Additionally, further interview participants were selected using the snowball-sampling method in order to represent maximum variation in the responses.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…houses were built here overnight, which I think will not be done here in the next 30 years." This situation is not singular because housing development was a top priority for the state or the mining company in the case of new mines or mine expansion, to respond to the urgent need of housing the miners [39]. However, this approach to create "open" mining towns and to use homeownership as a tenure option for housing programs is a failure because it does not consider the long-term implications of both mining and town development [40].…”

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Is There Sustainable Development after Mining? A Case Study of Three Mining Areas in the Apuseni Region (Romania)

Botezan

Constantin²,

Meltzer

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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The cessation or downsizing of mining activities induced complex challenges for entire regions in Romania, leading to depopulation, poverty, and pollution. Resource-dependency locked these regions in a mono-industry setting where it was difficult for new development paths to emerge. This paper presents a historical overview of a well-known Romanian mining region and identifies promising recovery opportunities that could shift the trajectory of its mining communities towards new sustainable paths. The research was based on official statistical data for the period 1965/1966–2018, complemented by qualitative data extracted from 39 semi-structured interviews with residents from the study area. The results revealed that the concentration of employment in the mining sector, together with other concurring factors, made it difficult for the communities to find sustainable ways of development while, at the same time, highlighting some possible revitalization and recovery opportunities. The findings contribute to a better understanding of mining communities, which will support the creation of tailored policies and planning strategies aimed towards their sustainable redevelopment.

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Scientist, Quo Vadis Without Ethics? An Introduction to Special Collection on “Environmental Ethics: Issues and Perspectives from Romania”

Petrescu-Mag

Petrescu

Ozunu

2019

J Agric Environ Ethics

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The Little Chernobyl of Romania: The Legacy of a Uranium Mine as Negotiation Platform for Sustainable Development and the Role of New Ethics

Cited by 6 publications

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What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

What Drives Landowners to Resist Selling Their Land? Insights from Ethical Capitalism and Landowners’ Perceptions

Is There Sustainable Development after Mining? A Case Study of Three Mining Areas in the Apuseni Region (Romania)

Scientist, Quo Vadis Without Ethics? An Introduction to Special Collection on “Environmental Ethics: Issues and Perspectives from Romania”

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