In Extraction, the researcher and organizer chronicles the tensions between resource extraction and the lithium demands of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy encompass the evaluation, recovery and processing of Earth-derived materials to furnish metals and minerals essential for modern society. The field ...

New York, 25 May 2021—United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will convene leaders and ministers from 18 countries that heavily rely on extractive industries in a roundtable discussion today ...

Hocking’s first memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, won the 2015 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction; his second is in competition for the 2026 prize.

Extractive political institutions concentrate power in the hands of a narrow elite and place few constraints on the exercise of this power. Extractive economies sow the seeds of their own destruction ...