• Understanding why impact assessment fails; a case study of theory and practice from Wafi-Golpu, Papua New Guinea 

      Roche, Charles; Brueckner, Martin; Walim, Nawasio; Sindana, Howard; John, Eugene (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)
      From an instrumental or management perspective, impact assessment (IA) is a process of identifying impacts, finding solutions and achieving project approval. A recipient community, however, has a completely different perspective. For them the IA is about living with impacts, individually and collectively, perhaps over generations, and contested processes of self-determination, consultation and ...
    • Unseen existences: Stories of life from Venembeli, Papua New Guinea 

      Roche, Charles; Spencer, Rochelle; John, Eugene; Walim, Nawasio; Sindana, Howard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-23)
      This article presents stories of life from Venembeli, a remote village in the hinterlands of Papua New Guinea. Caught up in a contentious mining development, villagers both long for and fear the development promised by global capitalism. But with a forty year development history, the proposed Wafi-Golpu mine has become the only lens through which the present or future is imagined and understood. We ...