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DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.07.025 |
Phasing Out Mercury? Ecological Economics and Indonesia's Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector | |
Spiegel, Samuel J.1; Agrawal, Sumali2; Mikha, Dino2; Vitamerry, Kartie2; Le Billon, Philippe3; Veiga, Marcello4; Konolius, Kulansi2; Paul, Bardolf2 | |
2018-02-01 | |
发表期刊 | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
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ISSN | 0921-8009 |
EISSN | 1873-6106 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 144页码:1-11 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Scotland; Indonesia; Canada |
英文摘要 | This article uses an ecological economics approach to analyse tensions surrounding efforts to phase out mercury in Indonesia's artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector, among the largest sources of mercury pollution worldwide. Many scholars and environmental activists have long hoped that global restrictions in mercury trade would drive up mercury prices and decrease mercury use and pollution in ASGM. However, in Indonesia, despite global mercury trade restrictions, recent increases in domestic mercury supplies through new cinnabar mining developments have made mercury less expensive and more available, destabilizing efforts at reducing mercury use. This article discusses implications of domestic cinnabar mining for controlling mercury in Indonesia's ASGM sector, highlighting obstacles to implementing the Minamata Convention, a treaty that aims to restrict mercury use. We link discussion of mercury mining to other socioeconomic processes, labour relations and power dynamics shaping mercury use in gold mining and hindering collectivised mercury-free technology uptake. Examining new evidence regarding the social metabolism of a changing extractive economy, we underscore why an integrated ecological economics paradigm carefully grounding analysis in the context of local labour situations is needed to challenge assumptions and inform new strategies for mercury reduction/elimination in ASGM. |
英文关键词 | Mercury pollution Ecological economics Small-scale gold mining Artisanal gold mining Environmental governance Cleaner technology Marginalisation Minamata Convention on Mercury |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000418108500001 |
WOS关键词 | SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ; COLLECTIVE ACTION ; VALUATION LANGUAGES ; SOCIAL METABOLISM ; LATIN-AMERICA ; HUMAN HEALTH ; POLLUTION ; GOVERNANCE ; RESOURCE ; FUTURE |
WOS类目 | Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/15743 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Edinburgh, Sch Social & Polit Sci, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; 2.Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta, Cent Kalimantan, Indonesia; 3.Univ British Columbia, Liu Inst Study Global Issues, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 4.Univ British Columbia, Inst Min Engn, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Spiegel, Samuel J.,Agrawal, Sumali,Mikha, Dino,et al. Phasing Out Mercury? Ecological Economics and Indonesia's Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector[J]. ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,2018,144:1-11. |
APA | Spiegel, Samuel J..,Agrawal, Sumali.,Mikha, Dino.,Vitamerry, Kartie.,Le Billon, Philippe.,...&Paul, Bardolf.(2018).Phasing Out Mercury? Ecological Economics and Indonesia's Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,144,1-11. |
MLA | Spiegel, Samuel J.,et al."Phasing Out Mercury? Ecological Economics and Indonesia's Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 144(2018):1-11. |
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