Community futures, legal archittecture : Foundations for indigenous peoples in the global mining boom

Table of Contents:
Introduction, Marcia Langton,
PART 1: Impacts, strategies and choices: the resource extraction industry and the economic and social status of indigenous and local peoples;
1. The resource curse compared: Australian Aboriginal participation in the resource extraction industry and distribution of impacts, Marcia Langton and Odette Mazel;
2. Curse or opportunity? Mineral revenues, rent seeking and development in Aboriginal Australia, Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh; 3.Measuring indigenous outcomes from mining agreements in Australia: the role of applied demography, John Taylor;
4. Papua New Guinea: conflicts, customary landholding and resource exploitation, George Yapao, Lee Godden and Steven Pettigrove;
5. Mining companies as agents for social development: the case for more effectual corporate-community investments, Ana Maria Esteves;
PART II: Agreements, taxation and natural wealth accounts: distribution, preservation and economic development;
6. Legal forms and their implications for long-term relationships and economic, cultural and social empowerment: structuring agreements in Australia, Maureen Tehan and Lee Godden;
7. Five principles for managing Timor-Leste’s natural resource revenue wisely, Jen Drysdale;
8. The development forum in Papua New Guinea: evaluating outcomes for local communities, Colin Filer;
9. Tax law and policy for indigenous economic development in Australia, Miranda Stewart;
10. Native title agreements, taxation and economic development in Australia, Lisa Strelein;
11.The income tax exempt charitable structure as a vehicle for holding Australian native title interests: some lessons from New Zealand, Fiona Martin,
PART III: Economic development for local and indigenous people: case studies of the dynamics among states, corporations and local communities;
12.Turning a benefit agreement into practical development: a case study of a Papua New Guinea development foundation, Tim Offor and Barbara Sharp;
13. From paternalism to partnership: the Good Neighbour Agreement and the Argyle Diamond Mine Indigenous Land Use Agreement in Western Australia, Kim Doohan, Marcia Langton and Odette Mazel;
14. Engaging communities in resource development initiatives in Timor-Leste, Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho and Lisa Palmer; 15. To be destitute or to benefit: corporate social responsibility and mining in South Africa, Henk Kloppers and Willemien Du Plessis.