Abstract
Mining activity can have small geographic footprints compared to the significant economic, employment, and environmental impacts that are experienced at a much larger scale. Likewise, the closure of these mines can lead to regional-scale transformations in economic and sociodemographic structure that exhibit cumulative or interactive effects with regional trends (Haggerty et al., 2018; Syahrir et al., 2021). Yet regional- or meso-level planning and regulation of mining activity and mine closure is often overlooked as extractive industries are typically regulated at state, provincial or national levels, with local oversight typically limited to where the mine is located (Lobao et al., 2009). Regional-level analysis also must include a diversity of rightsholders and stakeholders that may be impacted differently and with varying levels of influence or agency over how economic futures are defined (Monosky and Keeling 2021; Roemer and Haggerty, 2021).
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