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Energy for whom? uranium mining, indigenous people, and navigating risk and rights in Australia
No full textRelationships between uranium companies and Traditional Owners traditionally have been characterised by conflict, negative impacts and the denial of rights, especially in Australia. It is estimated that 70 per cent of global uranium deposits are located on the traditional lands of First Peoples, while in Canada and Australia, the percentages are higher. Although opposition to uranium developments remains high, First Peoples increasingly are receptive to uranium developments on their lands. This paper explores engagement between uranium companies and Traditional Owners and identifies avenues to improve relationships. The Ranger uranium mine in Australia's Northern Territory is used as an empirical vehicle through which the following question is answered: can more mutually beneficial outcomes be achieved through greater attention to the rights of First Peoples and to the social and business risks precipitated by uranium developments? Based on the findings of the Ranger case study, the paper that risks and impacts can be reduced or ameliorated through greater emphasis on the rights of First Peoples and the risks to and from operations. Corporate risk and impact assessment tools and processes should work in tandem with, and facilitate, grass-roots relationships between companies and Traditional Owners in order to create shared value
Uranium mining and First Peoples: the nuclear renaissance confronts historical legacies
Full text linkForecasts of an increase in nuclear electricity generation would require a commensurate increase in the mining of uranium; however, there are a number of impediments to its successful extraction. These include government regulation, bans on uranium mining and exploration, and environmental, waste management and nuclear proliferation concerns. While literature on these issues exists, less is known about the effects of community opposition to uranium developments, particularly from First Peoples. This area of study is important for uranium companies, as 70 per cent of uranium deposits are located on the traditional lands of First Peoples. Crucially, the history and legacy of relationships between First Peoples and uranium companies would suggest that opposition by host communities could disrupt future uranium production. This paper explores these issues and reviews the experiences of First Peoples and uranium companies in Australia, Canada, the United States and several African states. It argues that if companies were to prioritise more respectful engagement with host communities, social and business risks may be reduced and more mutually beneficial development outcomes may be achieved
Ranger uranium mine and the Mirarr (Part 2), 2000-2014: 'A risk to them is a risk to us'
No full textReporting on data obtained from field research comprising interviews with key stakeholders, participant observation and shadowing of a senior member of the company's community relations team, this paper examines recent milestones in the relationship between Energy Resources of Australia, the operator of the Ranger uranium mine in Australia's Northern Territory, and Mirarr, the Traditional Owners of the lands on which the mine is located. Historically, this relationship was characterised by conflict and mistrust, with attendant negative social impacts and business risks, and perceptions of social risks. However, in the last 15 years, the mining company has adopted a changed approach to community engagement and actively has sought to respect and enable the rights of Mirarr. Using the lenses of human rights, social risk, business risk and social impact, the paper argues that the company's changed approach to engagement with its principal stakeholders has led to more positive and mutually beneficial development outcomes, a reduction in business risks, and the enabling of Mirarr rights. This paper constitutes the second of two papers charting the relationship over time between Mirarr and Energy Resources of Australia
Ranger Uranium Mine and the Mirarr (Part 1), 1970-2000: the risks of 'riding roughshod'
No full textThe Mirarr struggle against uranium mining on their ancestral lands commenced in the 1970s, when the Australian government disregarded Mirarr opposition to the development of the Ranger mine and exempted the community from exercising rights granted to First Peoples under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. This paved the way for construction of Ranger and the adjacent town of Jabiru. Ranger has been a continuing source of conflict between the Mirarr and their representative organisation (the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation), the Northern Land Council, the mine's operator (Energy Resources of Australia), and the Commonwealth government ever since. This paper, the first of two charting the relationship over time between Mirarr and Energy Resources of Australia, examines the history and legacy of Ranger and the proposed Jabiluka uranium development. Reporting on primary data gathered during interviews with key stakeholders in the mining company, Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, Jabiru community, regulatory agencies and other knowledgeable respondents, it finds that there was systematic indifference to the impacts of mining on Mirarr and limited regulatory oversight. The paper employs the interpretive lenses of rights, social and business risk, and social impact in order to understand the legacies of the mine and to present a modern interpretation of Ranger's history
Uranium companies and traditional owners: negotiating the intersection of risk and rights
No full textBook Review: People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West by Waleed Aly
No full textBook Review:
People Like Us: How arrogance is dividing Islam and the West
Waleed Aly
Sydney: Picador-Pan Macmillan, 2007, 277pp
Conceptualising social risk and business risk associated with private sector development projects
No full textThere are various definitions of social risk. For some, social risk pertains to social protection, and risk-taking is thought to enhance human welfare. For others, social risk is contrasted with empirical risk, where the perception of risk by lay members of society differs from that of experts in any given field. More recently, social risk has come to be associated with the potential future negative social impacts of corporate activities and private sector development on individuals and groups. This paper theorises the relationships between social risk and business risk in the context of private sector developments. Many business leaders continue to conflate social risk with their existing understandings of business risk, with social risk understood to be the risk to the business arising from the actions of community stakeholders. Conceiving of social risk in this way has implications for the discrete identification, prevention and mitigation of social and business risks and impacts, and has ramifications for corporate risk management strategies, as well as companies’ relationships with community stakeholders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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