Journal: World Development

 

Abstract:

This article adopts a ‘pathways to sustainability’ approach to study lead mining in rural China. Through an in-depth case study, it reveals how shifting mining practices are tied to institutional and political economic contexts, cost-benefit distribution, and changes in livelihood resources and strategies. It weaves together an analysis of livelihood practices with a study of attitudes to livelihood and environment, which are usually researched separately. In turn, it demonstrates that a longitudinal analysis may resolve the contradictory accounts of whether mining aids or hinders development, and whether local communities are victims or beneficiaries of such development.

 

First author: Dr. Jixia Lu, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Corresponding author: Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright, Oxford University, UK

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