Dissecting Corporate Community Development in the Large-Scale Melanesian Mining Sector

Abstract

Colin Filer is an Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Pierre-Yves Le Meur is a Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le De⁺ѓveloppement, Montpellier, France. Large-scale mines and local-level politics / Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves le Meur -- From anticipation to practice: social and economic management of the nickel plant's establishment in New Caledonia's North Province / Jean-Michel Sourisseau, Sonia Grochain and David Poithily -- Social and environmental transformations in the neighbourhood of nickel mining project: a case study from northern New Caledonia / Matthias Kowasch -- The Boakaine Mine in New Caledonia: a local development issue? / Christine Demmer -- Conflict and agreement: the politics of nickel in Thio, New Caledonia / Pierre-Yves Le Meur -- Contesting the Goro Nickel Mining Project, New Caledonia: indigenous rights, sustainable development and the land issue / Claire Levacher -- Dissecting corporate community development in the large-scale Melanesian mining sector / Glenn Banks, Dora Kuir-Ayius, David Kombako and Bill F. Sagir -- Negotiating community support for closure or continuation of the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer and Phillipa Jenkins -- Disconnected development worlds: responsibility towards local communities in Papua New Guinea / John burton and Joyce Onguglo -- Gender mainstreaming and local politics: women, women's associations and mining in Lihir / Susan R. Hemer -- Migrants, labourers and landowners at the Lihir Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea / Nicholas A. Bainton -- Bougainville: origins of the conflict, and debating the future of large-scale mining / Anthony J. Regan -- Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea / Colin Filer and Pierre-Yves le Meur.