Mining and indigenous livelihoods: rights, revenues, and resistance

The space left for indigenous peoples' voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks : a comparative analysis / Zoé Boirin-Fargues and Sophie Thériault -- Closure and connection : a Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave / Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Glenn Banks -- Foreign investor accountability for the violation of indigenous peoples' rights in international invest…

Land tenure reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, R…

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