Extractive industries
NEW book released: Between the Plough and the Pick Informal, artisanal and small-scale mining in the contemporary world
Between the Plough and the Pick deepens our understanding of informal, artisanal and small-scale mining, popularly known as ASM. The book engages with wider scholarly conceptualisations of contemporary global social, agrarian and political changes, whilst underlining the roles that local social‑political-historical contexts play in shaping ...
Open Development Mekong publishes new profile on Chinese financial aid in the Lower Mekong
Open Development Mekong has published an interactive map visualizing 472 Chinese financial aid projects in the Lower Mekong countries.The data visualized in this map is extracted from a sub-nationally georeferenced dataset of Chinese official finance activities between 2000 and 2014 in three ecologically sensitive regions — ...
