Benefit Sharing is No Solution to Development: Experiences from mining on Aboriginal land in Australia

Altman, Jon

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Benefit Sharing is No Solution to Development: Experiences from mining on Aboriginal land in Australia

Date

2009

Authors

Altman, Jon

Publisher

Springer

Abstract

This chapter looks at what happens in Australia when indigenous people who are landowners need to negotiate with multinational corporations engaged in mineral exploration and production on their lands. Focusing on a number of significant benefit-sharing a