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Sam Spiegel

Major research themes

§   Theories of International Development, Inequality and Social Change

§   Global Environmental Governance

§   The Roles of United Nations Organizations

§   Rural Livelihoods and Resource Management

§   Approaches for Studying Socio-Environmental Interactions in Low-Income Countries

§   Conceptualizations of Informal Sector and Illegal Economic Activities and the Roles of the State

§   Interdisciplinary Methods in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology Research

§   Extractive Sector Regulation and Development

§   Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining

 

Biography

 

Sam is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the MSc Programme in Global Challenges and the Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Africa and International Development. His research engages multiple themes in the study of international development, human geography, environmental governance, public health, political economy and political ecology. He conducted his doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, where he studied geography as a Trudeau Scholar and Cambridge Commonwealth Scholar at Trinity College. He has served as an advisor to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and worked with governments and civil society organizations in Africa, Asia and South America on a variety of initiatives to address resource management, livelihoods and development policy issues. Interested in interdisciplinary approaches for understanding issues of global inequality, Sam's publications have addressed a variety of inter-linkages in the socioeconomic, environmental and political dimensions of resource extraction and rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, with particular attention to conceptualizations of regulation and resource management challenges in artisanal and small-scale mining communities. Sam has conducted research in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Indonesia, Cambodia and Brazil, among other places, and his current research examines the roles of global governance paradigms in the extractive sector and their relation to national policy reforms and rural livelihood planning in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

Main Teaching Responsibilities

-Programme Director, MSc Programme in Global Challenges

-Programme Director, Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Africa and International Development - Distance Learning Programme

-Politics and Theories of International Development - distance learning course (lecturer)

-Roots of African Poverty - distance learning course (lecturer) 

-Analysing Development -distance learning course (lecturer) 

-MA Programme in Sustainable Development (lecturer)

-MA Programme in International Development (lecturer)

-Development Research Methods (lecturer)

 

Selected Academic Publications

Spiegel SJ Ribeiro CAAS, De Sousa RN, Veiga MM. 2012. Mapping Spaces of Environmental Dispute: GIS, Mining and Surveillance in the Amazon. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(2): 320-349.

Spiegel SJ. 2012. Governance Institutions, Resource Rights Regimes and the Informal Mining Sector: Regulatory Complexities in Indonesia. World Development 40(1): 189-205.

Spiegel SJ. 2012. Microfinance Services, Poverty and Artisanal Mineworkers in Africa: In Search of Measures for Empowering Vulnerable Groups, Journal of International Development 24(4): 485-517.

Sousa, R., Veiga M., Van Zyl D., Telmer, K, Spiegel, S. Selder, J. 2011. Policies and Regulations for Brazil’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector. Journal of Cleaner Production 19(6-7): 742-750.

Spiegel SJ, Veiga MM. 2010. International Guidelines on Mercury Management in Small-Scale Gold Mining, Journal of Cleaner Production 18(4): 375-385.

Spiegel SJ. 2009. Socioeconomic Dimensions of Mercury Pollution Abatement: Engaging Artisanal Mining Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ecological Economics 68(12): 3072-3083.

Spiegel SJ, Le Billon P. 2009. China’s Weapons Trade: From Ships of Shame to the Ethics of Global Resistance, International Affairs 85(2): 323-346.

Spiegel SJ. 2009. Occupational Health, Mercury Exposure and Environmental Justice: Learning from Experiences in Tanzania, American Journal of Public Health 99(S3): S550-S558.

Spiegel SJ. 2009. Labour Challenges and Mercury Management at Gold Mills in Zimbabwe: Examining Production Processes and Proposals for Change, Natural Resources Forum 33(3): 221-232.

Spiegel SJ. 2009. Resource Policies and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Zimbabwe, Resources Policy 34: 39-44.

Spiegel SJ. 2008. Deforestation: Call for Justice, Not Militarization, Nature 453:280.

Swain E, Jakus P, Rice G, Lupi F, Maxson P, Pacyna J, Penn A, Spiegel SJ, Veiga MM. 2007. Socioeconomic Consequences of Mercury Use and Pollution, Ambio – Journal of the Human Environment. 36:45–61.

Spiegel SJ, Savornin O, Shoko D. and Veiga MM. 2006. Mercury Reduction in Munhena, Mozambique: Homemade Solutions and the Social Context for Change. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 12: 215–221.

Spiegel SJ, Yassi A, Spiegel J, Veiga M. 2005. Reducing Mercury and Responding to the Global Gold Rush, The Lancet 366: 2070-2072.

Spiegel SJ and Veiga MM. 2005. Building Capacity in Small-Scale Mining Communities: Health, Ecosystem Sustainability and the Global Mercury Project. EcoHealth 2(4): 1-10

 

Selected Reports to United Nations Agencies and Governments

Spiegel SJ and Hoeung S, 2011. “Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining: Policy Options for Cambodians.” United Nations Development Programme (http://www.un.org.kh/undp/media/files/Policy%20Brief-Artisanal%20and%20Small-Scale%20Mining-Eng.pdf )

Spiegel SJ, “Addressing the Challenges of Small-Scale Gold Mining in Cambodia: An Examination of Sector Complexities and Practical Policy Options.” Commissioned Report for the United Nations Development Program and the Royal Government of Cambodia (2010)

Spiegel SJ, “Governance Strategies in Artisanal Mining Communities: Supporting Livelihoods and Enhancing Social Opportunities.” Report for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2010)

Spiegel SJ, Veiga MM “Report on the Policy and Governance Initiative: Enhancing Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Address Mercury, Small-Scale Gold Mining and the Institutional Dynamics of Change”, Report for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (July 2007) (http://www.globalmercuryproject.org/documents/non_country%20specific/Sam%20Policy%20and%20Governance%20Final.pdf)

Spiegel SJ, “Technical Measures for Incorporation into the U.N. International Guidelines on Mercury in Small-Scale Mining.” Report to the United Nations Environment Program (2007)

Spiegel SJ and Veiga MM “Global Impacts of Mercury Supply and Demand in Small-Scale Gold Mining” Report Commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program Governing Council, February 2007, Nairobi Kenya (translated in UN languages and circulated to governments worldwide) (Summary available at: www.chem.unep.ch/mercury/partnerships/2006%20GMP%20Report%20to%20UNEP%20GC24.pdf)

Spiegel SJ, Microfinance Strategies in Artisanal Mining Communities: Integrating Training in Tanzania.  United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2007)

Spiegel SJ, “Policy Recommendations for Mitigating Mercury Pollution in Small-Scale Gold Mining”, United Nations Report to the Government of Tanzania (2007)

Spiegel SJ, “Policies for Empowering Small-Scale Gold Miners in Zimbabwe: Concerns Regarding Fair Mineral Marketing, Environmental Impact Assessment, Technology Transfer and Environmental Policy Implementation”, United Nations Report to the Government of Zimbabwe (2007)

Spiegel SJ and Veiga MM, “Global Mercury Project - Strategic Plan on Policy and Governance” United Nations Industrial Development Organization (2006)

Co-Author, “Pilot Project for the Reduction of Mercury Contamination from Mining Fields in Manica District, Mozambique” Report to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, accessible at www.globalmercury.org (2005)

 

Other Lectures

Spiegel SJ. “The Politics of Criminalization in Zimbabwe’s Mining Communities: Labour Struggles in the Gold and Diamond Sectors.” AEGIS Thematic Conference: “Questions Around the Extraction of Natural Resources in Africa,” Madrid, Spain. April 14-15.

Spiegel SJ. “The Legalization and Criminalization of Artisanal Gold Panners in Zimbabwe: Struggles in Insiza District.” African Studies Association of the UK, University of Oxford, September 17, 2010.

Spiegel SJ. Invited Expert Panelist – First International Conference on Mining in Cambodia. Hosted by the United Nations Development Program in conjunction with the Royal Government of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 27, 2010. Speech Title: Governance Approaches in Artisanal Gold Mining Communities: Supporting Livelihoods and Enhancing Social Opportunities in the Asia-Pacific Countries.

Spiegel SJ. Invited Expert Panelist – 18^th Session of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) – Ministerial Roundtable on Mining. United Nations Headquarters, New York, May 12, 2010. Speech title: Governance Strategies in Artisanal Mining Communities: Supporting Livelihoods and Enhancing Social Opportunities. Video of Speech Available at Online United Nations Webcast: http://www.un.org/webcast/csd18/csd18-g.htm (speech link at bottom of webpage)

Spiegel SJ, “Policy and Governance Models for Engaging Small-Scale Gold Mining in Africa” (Presentation in French) United Nations Industrial Development Organization Conference on Small-Scale Gold Mining, Bamako, Mali, December 9, 2009.

 

 

This page was published on 11 May 2012