Transnational Mining Law
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2021
Keywords
Mining Law, Global Mining, Extractive Industries, Local Communities, Human Rights Violations, Environmental Degradation, Global South, Sustainable Development, Canada, China
Abstract
The rise of transnational law in the global mining context has led to legitimacy concerns. This chapter introduces international sustainable mineral development law, then explores resistance to global mining expressed by local communities of the Global South. Ideal host state regulation for sustainable mining is examined as proposed in a Mining Policy Framework developed by the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development. International standards of business conduct developed through multistakeholder processes are then introduced, before turning to the role of home states in the prevention and remedy of harm, comparing developments in Canada and China.
Recommended Citation
Sara L Seck, "Transnational Mining Law" in Peer Zumbansen, ed, The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) 329.
