By Constance Malleret In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. These include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for ...

I’ve written about Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty before and I think it’s an amazing book that everyone should read and buy. That said, since finishing it, I do have a ...

Local economic development and diversification policies are becoming a priority in many mineral-rich developing countries. These policies aim to ensure extractive industries support the development of ...

Extractive industries affect Indigenous peoples in Sweden and Australia, and Indigenous group's perspectives are often ignored or trivialised, according to a PhD thesis from Umeå University in Sweden.

Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy embody the systematic approach to discovering, processing and refining raw mineral materials into high‐value metals and alloys. This field spans the ...

Just 100 corporations are behind a fifth of the documented extractive conflicts worldwide, exposing how companies from the Global North seize resources and profits, while social and ecological harms ...

In human civilisation, prosperity and progress come when human beings start to organise themselves into institutional setup. The progress of any nation depends on how the institutions are arranged in ...