Doctoral Dissertation Research: Mining Investment, Mineral Rights, and Land Tenure

博士论文研究：矿业投资、矿业权和土地保有权

• 批准号: 1535660
• 负责人: Tad Mutersbaugh
• 金额: $ 1.31万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1535660&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Mining; Investment

This research considers the links between mining investment, legal rights to the subsoil, and legal rights to surface lands. Recent scholarship indicates that the geography of subsoil ownership in the Americas is undergoing significant changes regarding the pace and type of extractive investments. This study explores those changes by undertaking a targeted comparative analysis of two regions that figure prominently in these changes. This research will contribute to the development of methods not only for researchers but also for the public to understand legal changes to ownership in contexts where it is rapidly changing, new land governance structures are in the process of development, and ownership histories are complex and not readily discernible from available records.Long-term case studies will be undertaken in two sites for new forms of extractive investments: the Marcellus and Utica shale formations in north central West Virginia and the Intag region of northwest Ecuador, believed to contain mineral ores. The research focuses on subsoil rights acquisitions, and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to determine (i.) how the geography of subsoil ownership patterns is changing, and (ii.) how these changes are facilitated or impeded by institutional and governance practices.

本研究考虑了采矿投资、地下合法权益和地表合法权益之间的联系。最近的学术研究表明，美洲地下所有权的地理分布在采掘投资的速度和类型方面正在发生重大变化。本研究通过对在这些变化中表现突出的两个地区进行有针对性的比较分析，探讨了这些变化。这项研究不仅有助于研究人员，也有助于公众了解所有权在快速变化、新的土地治理结构处于发展过程中、所有权历史复杂且不易从现有记录中识别的背景下的法律变化。将在两个地点进行长期案例研究，以进行新形式的采掘业投资：西弗吉尼亚州中北部的Marcellus和Utica页岩地层，以及厄瓜多尔西北部的Intag地区，据信含有矿物矿石。该研究侧重于地下土地所有权的获取，并使用定性和定量方法来确定(1)地下土地所有权模式的地理位置如何变化，以及(2)这些变化如何受到制度和治理实践的促进或阻碍。