Sustainable Development for Communities Hosting Extractive Industries: All is far from Fair
Article from: OGEL 3 (2012), in OGEL Ten Years Special Issue: Internationalisation of Energy Law
Introduction
This paper focuses on the resource curse from the perspective of host communities who are amply endowed with mineral resources, but for whom sustainable development, economic and human development have remained elusive and problematic. Contrary to sustainable development, host communities are generally susceptible to loss of their traditional means of livelihood due to displacement from their lands and pollution of their environment. This occurs because of the continuous failure of the mineral industry and the host country government and legal regime to effectively internalize ...