Local Responses to Mine Closure in South Africa

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1 Understanding mine closure: global and national trends
2 A theoretical framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure
3 Mine closure policies and strategies in South Africa: a critical review
4 A scoping review of the literature on mine closure
5 Miners’ lives after retrenchment
6 West Rand: decline in South Africa’s economic heartland
7 Matjhabeng: decline in the urban periphery
8 Kleinzee: looking for a new dawn amidst the diamond dust
9 Koffiefontein mine downscaling: socioeconomic and infrastructural consequences
10 Alexkor and the Richtersveld community: unlikely partners to mine diamonds together
11 Tshikondeni: mine closure in a deeply rural area
12 Emalahleni’s just transition: from closure to collaboration?
13 Rustenburg: the struggle to go beyond mining
14 Rustenburg: coping despite mine decline
15 A framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure in South Africa
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