{"id":52398,"date":"2025-10-29T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/2025\/10\/gold-mining-in-the-colombian-amazon-empirical-insights-on-the-links-between-sustainability-equity-and-power\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:53:40","slug":"gold-mining-in-the-colombian-amazon-empirical-insights-on-the-links-between-sustainability-equity-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2025\/10\/gold-mining-in-the-colombian-amazon-empirical-insights-on-the-links-between-sustainability-equity-and-power\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11625-025-01749-w\">Gold mining in the Colombian Amazon: empirical insights on the links between sustainability, equity, and power<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>ILS researcher Barbara Schr\u00f6ter and her colleagues have published an article in the journal Sustainability Science. The article examines how different ideas about \u201csustainable\u201d gold mining in the Colombian Amazon region are causing tensions between companies, small-scale miners, indigenous communities, and government actors. The study shows that sustainable solutions are only possible if power relations and issues of justice are taken into account and diverse perspectives on sustainability are included in decision-making processes. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11625-025-01749-w\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11625-025-01749-w<\/a>. Further current selected papers can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/professional-publications\/selected-papers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publikationen-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gold mining in the Colombian Amazon: empirical insights on the links between sustainability, equity, and power - ILS - Institut f\u00fcr Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2025\/10\/gold-mining-in-the-colombian-amazon-empirical-insights-on-the-links-between-sustainability-equity-and-power\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gold mining in the Colombian Amazon: empirical insights on the links between sustainability, equity, and power - 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