Local Responses to Mine Closure in South Africa
Dependencies and Social Disruption
- 188 pages
- English
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Local Responses to Mine Closure in South Africa
Dependencies and Social Disruption
About this book
This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.
Mine closure presents a major challenge to the mining industry and government policymakers globally, but particularly in the Global South. South Africa is experiencing notable numbers of mine closures, and this book explores the notion of social disruption, a concept often applied to describe the effects of mine growth on communities but often neglecting the impact of mine closures. The book begins with three theoretical chapters that discuss theory, closure cost frameworks and policy development in South Africa. It uses evolutionary governance theory to show how mining creates dependencies and how mining growth often blinds communities and governments to the likelihood of closure. Too easily, mining goes ahead with no concern for the possibility, or indeed inevitability, of eventual closure and how mining communities will cope. These impacts are showcased through eight place-based case studies from across South Africa, one focusing on mine workers, to demonstrate that mine closure causes significant social disruption.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the social impacts of mining and the extractive industries, social geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers and practitioners working with mine closure and social impact assessments.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of acronyms
- List of contributors
- 1 Understanding mine closure: global and national trends
- 2 A theoretical framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure
- 3 Mine closure policies and strategies in South Africa: a critical review
- 4 A scoping review of the literature on mine closure
- 5 Miners’ lives after retrenchment
- 6 West Rand: decline in South Africa’s economic heartland
- 7 Matjhabeng: decline in the urban periphery
- 8 Kleinzee: looking for a new dawn amidst the diamond dust
- 9 Koffiefontein mine downscaling: socioeconomic and infrastructural consequences
- 10 Alexkor and the Richtersveld community: unlikely partners to mine diamonds together
- 11 Tshikondeni: mine closure in a deeply rural area
- 12 Emalahleni’s just transition: from closure to collaboration?
- 13 Rustenburg: the struggle to go beyond mining
- 14 Rustenburg: coping despite mine decline
- 15 A framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure in South Africa
- Index