Journal
RESOURCES POLICY
Volume 51, Issue -, Pages 243-250Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2017.01.005
Keywords
China; Income-generating project; Mine; Multi-stakeholder platform
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Funding
- Chinese Thirteenth Five-Year Key Research and Development Programme [2016YFC0502603]
- China Scholarship Council [201207720039]
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Mining companies are increasingly called on to organize compensation activities for the villages close to mining sites, using a participatory approach. In the Guizhou Province of China, when a gold mine was opened, most of the land farmed in the surrounding villages was expropriated. The mining company set up a multi-stakeholder platform to identify compensation activities. The platform included representatives from the villages, local government, the mining company and a provincial university. The article examines the relations between the different actors and assesses the activities that were developed. The multi-stakeholder platform enabled some communication between participants, but village representatives had very little say in the decision-making. Many infrastructure projects were implemented, but most income-generating projects failed. The funding provided by the mining company did not compensate for the lack of institutional support for designing and implementing income-generating projects capable of providing sustainable livelihoods to the villagers.
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