Coal mining and agriculture have repeatedly come into conflict when they co‐occur.
Although seemingly benign when compared with surface mining, underground coal …

Chinese mining cities face complex challenges of economic transformation. We conduct a
bibliometric analysis of international and Chinese literature of mining cities, and trace the …

The relationship between resource extraction activity and economic growth has been widely
studied in the literature, and the resource curse hypotheses emerged as a theory to explain …

Mining activities generate benefits but can also negatively impact human societies and the
environment. The present research aims to examine how people evaluate the benefits and …

Complementing the scarce economic literature about local impacts of energy extraction
booms, this paper empirically investigates economic outcomes related to the new coal seam …

The mining industry is capital intensive, and generally, direct labour employed is low
compared to other industries. Considering this, when analysing local economic effects of …

This paper looks at the impact of a new extractive industry, namely unconventional natural
gas, on rural decline. Rural decline is defined as comprising loss of rural youth, reduced …

Despite its contributions to the development of the country, the mining sector in Sierra
Leone, has been attributed to a multitude of impacts on the environment. This article focuses …

Worldwide coal mining has expanded over the past few decades, though growth has
recently slowed due to reduced demand, partly due to concerns around CO 2 emissions and …

This study examines the impacts of artisanal small-scale mining (ASM) on livelihood assets
using a representative data from individuals in major mining communities as well as non …