Uranium mining and sense of community in the Great Karoo: Insights from local narratives

Issah, Moshood; Umejesi, Ikechukwu

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.09.017

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“…Many of the specific issues faced by the communities in relation to health equity have been studied before, including community dynamics [ 50 , 51 ], resettlement [ 52 ], environmental degradation [ 53 ], water infrastructure [ 54 ], land-use conflicts [ 55 ], and poverty [ 12 ]. Based on the emic perspective, our findings revealed that the participants perceive the situation as a complex interplay of different factors and that different layers were closely intersecting with each other.…”

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“It Is Like We Are Living in a Different World”: Health Inequity in Communities Surrounding Industrial Mining Sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania

Leuenberger

Cambaco

Zabré

et al. 2021

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Background: Health equity features prominently in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, yet there are wide disparities in health between and within countries. In settings of natural resource extraction (e.g., industrial mines), the health of surrounding communities is affected through myriad changes in the physical, social, and economic environment. How changes triggered by such projects translate into health inequities is poorly understood. Methods: This qualitative study explores potential layers of inequities by systematically coding perceived inequities of affected communities. Drawing on the framework method, we thematically analyzed data from 83 focus group discussions, which enrolled 791 participants from 10 study sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Results: Participants perceived inequities related to their individual characteristics, intermediate factors acting on the community level, and structural conditions. Due to environmental pollution and land loss, participants were concerned about unsecured livelihoods. Positive impacts, such as job opportunities at the mine, remained scarce for local communities and were claimed not to be equally distributed among community members. Conclusion: Extractive industries bear considerable risks to widen existing health gaps. In order to create equal opportunities among affected populations, the wider determinants of health must be considered more explicitly in the licensing process of resource extraction projects.

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“It Is Like We Are Living in a Different World”: Health Inequity in Communities Surrounding Industrial Mining Sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania

Leuenberger

Cambaco

Zabré

et al. 2021

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“…We then detail the interventions made by this special issue in enhancing those foci among academic research. Notably, this journal has published articles that begin to incorporate these questions related to uranium production and overarching social justice, environmental justice, and development issues (see Hansen and Johnstone, 2019;Issah and Umejesi, 2019;Volderbing and Warner, 2018;Postar, 2017;Haalboom, 2016;Procter, 2016;Bjørst, 2016;Vestergaard, 2015). This special issue intends to consolidate and amplify these issues in one issue, which we hope E-mail address: stephanie.malin@colostate.edu (S.A. Malin).…”

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Assessing the state of uranium research: Environmental justice, health, and extraction

Malin

Alexis‐Martin

2020

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Uranium mining and sense of community in the Great Karoo: Insights from local narratives

Cited by 2 publications

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“It Is Like We Are Living in a Different World”: Health Inequity in Communities Surrounding Industrial Mining Sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania

“It Is Like We Are Living in a Different World”: Health Inequity in Communities Surrounding Industrial Mining Sites in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, and Tanzania

Assessing the state of uranium research: Environmental justice, health, and extraction

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