Just restorative pathways for rural landscape and livelihoods impacted by rare-earth mining.

这只是受稀土开采影响的乡村景观和生计的恢复途径。

• 批准号: 2886584
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2886584
• 关键词: Just; restorative; pathways; rural; landscape

Through collaboration with Pensana Plc, empirical focus will be given to landscape and rural livelihoods impacted by rare-earth mining in Angola.Pensana aims to establish the world's first sustainable magnet metal supply chain to meet the burgeoning demand from electric vehicles, offshorewind and other strategic industries vital to achieving the UK's clean energy transition and net zero targets.This project is stimulated by urgent need to progress understanding of the social and environmental impacts of rare-earth mining and to co-developjust restorative pathways for rural landscape and livelihoods impacted by rare-earth mining.Demand for rare-earth minerals has exploded and the international Energy Agency's Sustainable Development scenario predicts growth requirementswill continue with a seven-fold increase in demand by 2040 for clean energy technologies. Many countries in Africa have a plentiful supply of in demand rare minerals and consider extraction critical to economic development and poverty alleviation. However, the construction of and extractionfrom rare-earth mineral mines results in significant changes to ecosystems, land and livelihoods. There are real concerns about the negative socialand environmental impacts and the potential to increase in social and environmental injustices. Restoration of landscapes and livelihoods thereforerequires urgent consideration. Restoring ecosystems to improve human wellbeing and mitigate climate change and biodiversity crises has become aglobal priority. Gaps in understanding of the social aspects of degradation and recovery processes and the marginalisation of local voices in thepredominant top-down restoration planning/governance processes remain a challenge.The successful applicant will have the opportunity to be based at/near the Longonjo mine in Angola for up to 9 months during the fieldwork phase,supported by Pensana.

通过与 Pensana Plc 合作，实证重点将关注安哥拉稀土开采对景观和农村生计的影响。Pensana 旨在建立世界上第一个可持续磁铁金属供应链，以满足电动汽车、海上风电和其他战略性新兴市场的需求。对于实现英国清洁能源转型和净零目标至关重要的行业。该项目的推动是因为迫切需要加深对稀土开采的社会和环境影响的了解，并共同开发恢复途径农村景观和生计受到稀土开采的影响。对稀土矿物的需求已呈爆炸式增长，国际能源署的可持续发展情景预测需求将持续增长，到 2040 年对清洁能源技术的需求将增长七倍。非洲许多国家拥有充足的稀有矿物供应，并认为开采对于经济发展和消除贫困至关重要。然而，稀土矿的建设和开采导致生态系统、土地和生计发生重大变化。人们确实担心负面的社会和环境影响以及社会和环境不公正现象增加的可能性。因此，需要紧急考虑恢复景观和生计。恢复生态系统以改善人类福祉、缓解气候变化和生物多样性危机已成为全球优先事项。对退化和恢复过程的社会方面的理解存在差距，以及在主要的自上而下的恢复规划/治理过程中当地声音的边缘化仍然是一个挑战。成功的申请人将有机会在安哥拉 Longonjo 矿区/附近工作在 Pensana 的支持下，现场工作阶段长达 9 个月。