The Protective Nature of Gold During Times of Oil Price Volatility: An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic [0.03%]
黄金在油价波动时期的避险属性:对新冠疫情的分析
Yu Li,Muhammad Umair
Yu Li
This research explores gold's safe-haven properties amid oil price instability, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic. The study examines how gold hedges against oil price swings in the context of the pandemic's exceptional market circumstances...
Ellen Cristine Giese
Ellen Cristine Giese
In 2020, many countries endorsed lockdown measures, closed their borders, and practiced social distancing in a bid to contain COVID-19. These moves, however, disrupted global production and supply chains; no economic sector remained fully i...
Incidences of COVID-19 in major mining municipalities in the Brazilian Amazon: Economic impacts, risks and lessons [0.03%]
巴西亚马逊主要矿业城镇的新冠肺炎病例:经济影响、风险及教训
Fernando Ferreira de Castro,Geraldo Sandoval Góes,Jose Antonio Sena do Nascimento et al.
Fernando Ferreira de Castro et al.
This paper provides an assessment of COVID-19 occurrences in the Brazilian Amazon, with special emphasis on municipalities where mining activity is prevalent. It does so with a view to exploring how mining may be influencing the spread of c...
Small-scale gold mining and the COVID-19 pandemic: Conflict and cooperation in the Brazilian Amazon [0.03%]
小型金矿开采和COVID-19疫情:巴西亚马逊地区的冲突与合作
J Calvimontes,L Massaro,C H X Araujo et al.
J Calvimontes et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes both conflict and cooperation in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon. Reporting on the experiences of artisanal and small-scale gold miners (garimpeiros, in Brazilian Portuguese), we s...
California oil: Bridging the gaps between local decision-making and state-level climate action [0.03%]
加州石油:在地方决策和州级气候行动之间架起桥梁
Tristan Partridge,Javiera Barandiaran,Casey Walsh et al.
Tristan Partridge et al.
California has set ambitious climate policies, including economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. Yet levels of oil production and consumption remain high in the state. This gap between California's oil politics and its climate ambitions is ...
Enhancing corporate standing, shifting blame: An examination of Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act [0.03%]
提高企业地位,转移责备:对加拿大《采掘业透明度措施法》的考察
Kristin Ciupa,Anna Zalik
Kristin Ciupa
Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA) is the culmination of a series of proposals and consultations with government, industry and civil society organizations to address conflict over Canadian extractive industry. Crea...
Anna Zalik,Isaac Asume Osuoka
Anna Zalik
This special section Beyond Transparency: Rethinking the Government of Extraction examines the relationship between international transparency discourse in the extractive sector, and the persistent association of unaccountable government, s...
Stuart Kirsch
Stuart Kirsch
Since the 1970s, environmentalists have warned that overconsumption, especially of minerals and fossil fuels, will lead to resource depletion. But there are compelling reasons to question the assertion that we are running out. On the one ha...
Raphael J Heffron
Raphael J Heffron
It is a fundamental objective to transition towards a low-carbon economy worldwide which is supported by an international legal agreement - the 2015 Paris Agreement. In order to achieve this ambition, there is a need for new and more minera...
The devolution of the social licence to operate in the Australian mining industry [0.03%]
澳大利亚矿业行业中社会许可经营权的下放问题
David Laurence
David Laurence
The aim of this paper is to present a brief historical analysis of the Australian mining industry and the development of its social licence to operate. Commencing with the discovery of coal in the 18th century, to gold and copper and base m...