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Historicizing Sustainable Livelihoods: A Pathways Approach to Lead Mining in Rural Central China

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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.
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10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.006

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University of Oxford
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St Cross College
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Elsevier
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World Development More from this journal
Volume:
62
Pages:
189-200
Publication date:
2014-06-06
Acceptance date:
2014-04-01
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0305-750X


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