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The economy is the social institution that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of a society's goods and services. It consists of three sectors: the primary sector, the secondary sector, and the tertiary sector. As a separate institution, the economy appeared with the advent of agricultural societies about 5,000 years ago.
For decades South Africa's mining sector has been profiteering while neglecting mining communities' development needs. Most of these communities now …
In its 20th edition, PwC's 2023 Mine: The era of reinvention, an annual review of the Top 40 mining companies globally, examined trends in the mining industry. In this report, PwC found market capitalisation of the Top 40 miners tripled from US$400bn in 2003 to US$1.2trn in 2022.
SOUTH AFRICA'S MINING SECTOR Compiled by: Luvisa Bazola, Winnie Mofokeng & Arthur Baloyi CGE Policy Brief 17 (July 2017):Layout 1 8/2/17 12:22 PM Page 1 ... environment for women to participate in the development of the industry. However, there is still a long way to go before the attainment of meaningful participation of
the public interventions that will coincide with private sector development to meet the sector development goals by 2015. 1.2 National Guiding Policies For realization of TDV, both the Long Term Perspective Plan (2011-2025) and the First Five Year Development Plan (2011-2015) provide guidelines and targets to be
Mining is an important activity for India. With 3527 mining leases for 40 major minerals, extending a total lease area of roughly 315,986 hectares, India is a major producer of crucial minerals. The mineral resource sector has the potential to impact environmental sustainability, social inclusion, and economic development.
4 SIA in the Mining Industry 10 4.1 Social Impacts of Mining 10 4.2 Current Practice and the Need for Standards 12 4.3 Public Consultation and the Focus on Process 12 4.4 …
6. See for example the prominent place Coal is Our Life is given in Frankenberg, Communities in Britain.This book effectively sets Coal is Our Life as one of the foundational studies of British sociology. Interestingly Coal is our Life was republished in 1969 in the wake of Frankenberg's volume. Later Graham Crow devotes a whole …
Held under the theme Mining Sector Reforms: A call for Economic, Social and Environmental Justice, the 2016 ZAMI fittingly had an important breakaway session on Mining for Socio-Economic Development. This session explored how mining can bring tangible economic benefits from individual level, community to national level.
The economy is the social institution that organizes the production, distribution, and consumption of a society's goods and services. It consists of three sectors: the primary sector, the secondary sector, and the tertiary sector. As a separate institution, the economy appeared with the advent of agricultural societies about 5,000 years ago.
successful and sustainable deployment of women in the mining sector. The study concludes by making recommendations and offering a conceptual framework that could be implemented and used by various stakeholders in the mining sector Key words conceptual framework, core mining activities, gender equality, gender issues, mining industry, …
This is not for lack of trying—scholars have repeatedly called for the development of a formal sociology of energy (Lutzenhiser, 1994; Rosa et al., 1988; Ryan et al., ... —compete with the mining sector's economic power and dependence of Australia upon its, which now accounts for over 15% of the nation's economic activity (Cleary, …
Zambia Discovers World's Third Largest Copper Reserves. Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema announced the discovery of world-class copper reserves at the Mingomba exploration project by Bill-Gates backed exploration startup KoBold Metals in February 2024. With an expected production of between 500,000 and 600,000 metric …
Development Goals (SDGs), has been evidenced in different parts of the globe. Although women's participation in different sectors has improved in recent years, in the mining …
Despite these numbers, experts say that more and more women are entering the mining industry (Botha, 2016; Le Roux & Naudé, 2009; Letlape, 2014).In Namibia, the number of women in mining has increased by 8% since 2015 (Namibia Statistics Agency, n.d.).The masculine nature of the job and the historically male …
DOI: 10.1016/J.RESOURPOL.2008.01.005 Corpus ID: 153663184; Social dimensions of mining: Research, policy and practice challenges for the minerals industry in Australia @article{Solomon2008SocialDO, title={Social dimensions of mining: Research, policy and practice challenges for the minerals industry in Australia}, author={Fiona Solomon and …
Modernization Theory. Robert N. Gwynne, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Second Edition), 2009 Concluding Remarks. Modernization theory was a body of theory that dates from the 1950s and 1960s.. It undoubtedly had strong ideological undertones and part of its thinking was framed by the exigencies of the Cold War and …
What is Industrialisation? Industrialisation is where a country moves from an economy dominated by agricultural output and employment to one dominated by manufacturing. This will usually involve the establishment of factories in which things are produced in a rationally organized (efficient) manner. Below we look at perspectives on …
The CE development in China's mining industry is guided by national policies (Ranta et al., 2018), so the main characteristics of China's CE in mining industry can be summarized from a large number of policy texts. At the same time, the content analysis method can analyze large-scale and long-term public information, so as to …
Sociology has survived functionalism and its dominant status attainment theory in the 1960s and 1970s, Marxism and the 1980s dominating return to historical sociology, and postmodernism's declaration that everything is virtually unknowable except through one's own personal experiences (in which Anthropology did not fare so well as a ...
Since 1990's, the government has followed policy of liberalization. Private companies, especially foreign firms encouraged investment in sector which was earlier reserved for the government. 2.Generally people get jobs through advertisement or through employment exchange in industrial sector. Man and women both work in industrial sector.
Examining the power relations between coal company operators and mining families offers insight into strategies used for control and resistance. Using case studies from the United States, Australia, and Great Britain, the chapter draws comparisons and points out differences in mining communities within the United States as well as abroad.
The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to examine the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) in the mining sector on the Zimbabwe economy, while controlling for both non-mining FDI and domestic investment. Using data over the period 1988–2018, this research results show that …
Definition: Sociology of Development is a social science discipline that investigates economic development from a social development perspective. The field aims to determine the extent to which social, cultural, political, and institutional elements aid or hinder development. The subject's ultimate goal is to trace the non-economic …
It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation.
An individual sector's ability to rapidly ramp up supply, as well as other factors such as continued technological development and performance, available material alternatives and carbon-footprint implications for end-use applications, to name a few, could all impact the extent of substitution for individual commodities.
Three cross-industry trends are converging to trigger far-reaching changes within the mining workforce. First, the nature of work itself is evolving, with an increasing focus on automation, algorithms, and a growing need to be digital savvy—resulting in an estimated one in 16 (more than 100 million) workers globally needing to find a different …
This article - the first in a pair of articles on corporate social responsibility (CSR) - provides an overview of mining companies' role in sustainable development, from a business perspective and in the South African context. It argues that companies' social and environmental responsibilities are increasing, due to global changes in the way the …
Regardless of either development, the mining industry often still is the industry most susceptible to fatal accidents (Lilley et al. 2013), and Elgstrand and Vingård reported that "Where reliable national statistics exist, mining is generally the sector having the highest, or among 2–3 highest, rates of occupational fatal accidents and ...
Nigeria's mining sector is entering a new phase following the Covid-19 pandemic, with greater government support and a growing role as an important generator of export earnings amid post-pandemic economic recovery. Many of Nigeria's mineral resources remain unexploited, with considerable potential in gold, precious and semi-precious …
In this chapter, we focus on a single industry comparison by selecting twenty-one mining small towns in the Northern Cape, identified from the provincial spatial development framework (Office of the Premier of the Northern Cape, 2012), as case study sites. We narrow down the analysis of census data for 2001 and 2011 (the only data …
INDONESIA – MINING SECTOR DIAGNOSTIC (MSD) 6 HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus IASB International Accounting Standards Board IFRS International Financial Reporting Standards IMF WEO International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook IPPKH Izin Pinjam Pakai Kawasan Hutan (Borrow-to-Use Forestry Permit) IPR Izin …
Quinary Sector . Some economists further narrow the quaternary sector into the quinary sector, which includes the highest levels of decision-making in a society or economy. This sector is comprised of top executives or officials in fields like government, science, universities, nonprofits, health care, culture, and the media. It may also ...
In the mining sector, according to Prno and Slocombe (2012), a social license to operate means the ongoing approval and wide acceptance by society of a …
Based on information that was collected in August 2017, this paper discusses various aspects of the mining industry. These include Zimbabwe's mining legislation, environmental impacts of the mining industry at global level, in …
The mining sector's role in socio-economic development is documented in secondary data sources i.e. national accounts, fiscal data, chamber of mines annual reviews etc., however, at the micro- ... skills development for the mining sector through the establishment of vocational centre such as Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology …
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DOI: 10.1016/J.RESOURPOL.2018.02.002 Corpus ID: 158583242; Social impact assessment in the mining sector: Review and comparison of indicators frameworks …