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  • Impact and benefit agreements as monitoring instruments in the minerals and energy industries

    Author(s)
    O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran
    Griffith University Author(s)
    O'Faircheallaigh, Ciaran S.
    Year published
    2020
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    Abstract
    This article examines the potential of impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) between Aboriginal peoples and industry to effectively monitor the implementation of agreement provisions and the social, cultural and environmental impacts of extractive projects. The role of IBAs as ‘monitoring instruments’ is especially important given the withdrawal of neoliberal governments from their traditional role as environmental regulators. Case studies from Australia and Canada indicate that IBAs have considerable potential to effectively monitor project impacts and delivery of project benefits, but a broader analysis of IBAs in both ...
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    This article examines the potential of impact and benefit agreements (IBAs) between Aboriginal peoples and industry to effectively monitor the implementation of agreement provisions and the social, cultural and environmental impacts of extractive projects. The role of IBAs as ‘monitoring instruments’ is especially important given the withdrawal of neoliberal governments from their traditional role as environmental regulators. Case studies from Australia and Canada indicate that IBAs have considerable potential to effectively monitor project impacts and delivery of project benefits, but a broader analysis of IBAs in both countries shows that this potential is often not realised. This is in part because of the failure of state authorities to play a supportive role, and because financial constraints and weaknesses in organisational capacity undermine effective implementation of IBAs, including their monitoring provisions. Both the success of Aboriginal peoples in securing positive state involvement, and in realizing the potential of IBAs as monitoring mechanisms, is shown to depend crucially on Aboriginal political mobilisation.
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    Journal Title
    The Extractive Industries and Society
    Volume
    7
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.05.016
    Subject
    Human geography
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Environmental Sciences & Ecology
    Impact and benefit agreements
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/403434
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