Transparency enables the public to obtain information about the operations and structures of a given entity, e.g., government bodies or other powerful actors. In the extractive sector, transparency posits the disclosure of understandable, timely, and salient resource-related information, e.g., contract documents and revenue collection, that will increase the public's awareness of the sector's management. Information [...]

This project takes as its starting point that a number of recent geopolitical, socio-technological and environmental developments are reconfiguring the geographies of extraction worldwide. Taking the ongoing transition to sustainable energy in Europe as its starting point, the aim of this PhD project is to contribute to increased understanding of how these ongoing shifts are [...]

The main problem for the politics of energy transition is the selection of adequate material sources. New energy sources must ensure efficiency, minimal emissions, supply stability, inclusiveness of distribution, and affordability of prices. Rare Earth Elements (REE) is a type of mineral that has high magnetic and conductive properties so that it becomes the choice [...]

The global initiatives related to sustainable commodities always require support and political legitimacy from various global and domestic actors. The trans-national actors have been re-producing the issues on sustainability and environmental degradation. While at national level, in this case is Indonesia, the government responds with economic development based on/considering with the environment sustainability. Palm oil [...]

Once considered part of the sunset industry, the dynamics of supply and demand for global tin resources are constantly changing. Then, the context changed again, which was marked by a declining demand. This context coincides with the increasing discourse and agenda of energy transformation and adaptation to global sustainable climate change. The context of the [...]