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Paul Bowles
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Latest papers
Why do Mines Fail to Obtain a Social License to Operate?: Insights from the Proposed Kallak Iron Mine (Sweden) and the Prosperity/New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine (Canada).
Environmental management · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $19,810
Extractive Bargains: States, Natural Resources and the (Elusive) Search for Consensus
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $2,496,543
Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $2,500,000
Urban Aboriginal knowledge network research for a better life
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Why do Mines Fail to Obtain a Social License to Operate?: Insights from the Proposed Kallak Iron Mine (Sweden) and the Prosperity/New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine (Canada).
MacPhail F, Lindahl KB, Bowles P
Extractive Bargains: States, Natural Resources and the (Elusive) Search for Consensus
Principal investigators: Andrews, Nathan
Keywords: resource development; extractivism; state policy; societal bargains; Indigenous communities; state-society relations
Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector
Keywords: political economy; political ecology; public sociology; corporate power and influence; extractivism and staples; carboniferous capitalism; civic participation
Urban Aboriginal knowledge network research for a better life
Keywords: urban Aboriginal; identity; social problems; indigenous knowledge; public policy; institutions
The political economy of China's currency choices
Principal investigators: Bowles, Paul
Keywords: China; exchange rate regimes; political economy; international monetary system
Climate justice paths to an equitable and sustainable BC economy
Keywords: climate change; inequality; urban planning; carbon pricing; environmental justice; mitigation; adaptation; labour market
Globalizing Northern British Columbia
Principal investigators: Bowles, Paul
Keywords: globalization; northern development; regional development; regional governance
Globalization(s) and Labour: China, India and the West
Principal investigators: Bowles, Paul
Keywords: globalization; labour; China; India; international governance
Economic Security Project
Keywords: public policy; economic security; inequality; welfare; health; public services; governance
Neo-liberal globalism and its challengers: sustainability in the semi-periphery
Principal investigators: Laxer, Gordon
Keywords: Sustainability; globalisation; paradigm shift; neo-liberalism; semi-periphery; democracy; human development; nationalism; transnationalism; comparative
Chinese industrial labour in transition
Principal investigators: Bowles, Paul
Keywords: labour systems; transition economics
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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