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Prevailing patterns of mining policy, as well as of mining legislation, regulation and contractual arrangements, are undergoing intense scrutiny faced with society's changing values and expectations on the contribution of mining to sustainable development. In reflecting on future directions,...

Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; Note on the Text; Introduction; 1. Historical Setting; 2. Minerals, the Subsoil and Property Law; 3. Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil; 4. The Subsoil as Private Property; 5. Industrializing Iron Ore; 6. Minerals and the Formation of Economic...

List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: resource governance at a time of plenty -- Theoretical debates in natural resource politics -- States and markets in the context of a resource boom : engaging with critical IPE --...