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Conflicts emerging through large-scale mining projects among government, industry and affected population are common all over the world. Especially the indigenous communities and their strong human-nature relation are threatened by the land transformation due to mining operations. Open pit gold mining performed by transnational companies TNCs and supported by the Philippine government aligning decisions on economic standards and market orientated legislative period, have been imposing tremendous damage on the Philippine indigenous communities and the national environmental resources for many decades, from colonial times, dictatorship, and new democracy . This thesis displays and discusses the interwoven web of socially and environmentally degrading impacts introduced to the small village of Didipio in the north of the Philippines by a planned gold and copper mining project. After describing influencing sectors of industry and government for decision making in mining projects and introducing interests and purposes of all stakeholders, assessment of changes in water quality and quantity, which are associated with technical requirements of open pit gold mining, is used to specifically relate the initiation of a punctual impact, on a natural good, and its provoked tremendous environmental and furthermore social degradation. A central assertion of this thesis is the call for recognizing human-rights based participation of all affected stakeholders via emphasizing indigenous people’s rights, balancing market-centred development aggression and foreign control over national markets, as well as implementing sustainable environmental awareness management by industry and government. Further recommendations are related to the resignation of defining nature merely according to its function under the utilization concept, to TNCs’ application of postmodern understanding of reason based on flexibility and versatility, and to the promoting of indigenous self-determination and individual initiative.
30 sampling sites at 5 mining areas and reference sites in Lower Lusatia were studied for succession of Collembola. The study took place from 2001 to 2004. Two chronosequences were chosen, one for afforestation sites and one for sites with free succession. Additional data about some soil parameters (pH, organic matter content, water content, water capacity, conductivity, phosphate, ammonium and nitrate) are also given. Most soil parameters increase with age and/or vegetation development. Only pH decreases after melioration whereas no correlations were found for phosphate. At all study sites, 13.733 specimens, distributed across 84 species were identified with Mesaphorura macrochaeta and Parisotoma notabilis as most abundant species. Succession was studied on different levels. On the level of species and ecological groups, succession is from meadow species to forest species, but on the level of specimens and ecological groups, succession is from meadow species over eurotopic species to forest species. A model for species succession is offered on the level of specimens, presented separately for the epigaeic and the endogaeic community. Both successional developments could be divided into five parts: For the epigaeic community, the 1st stage is defined as sites without vegetation. Species found here are Pseudoanurophorus alticolus, Schoetella ununguiculata, Bourletiella pruinosa and Brachystomella parvula. At the 2nd stage, already some sparse vegetation can be found. Some sites are also covered densely by moss. Here, Cryptopygus thermophilus, Isotoma anglicana and Lepidocyrtus cyaneus are found fort he first time. The 3rd stage is defined as sites with dense vegetation, generally Calamagrostis epigejos dominated sites. Oldest sites have already some shrubs made of young pines or are clearings in young woodland. Several species are found here for the first time in notable dominances: Entomobrya lanuginosa, Entomobrya multifasciata, Lepidocyrtus lignorum, Isotoma viridis, Lepidocyrtus lanuginosus, Sminthurinus aureus, Sphaeridia pumilis and Tomocerus flavescens. The fourth stage is made up by afforestations up to 43 years on reclamation sites. 5 more species are found here: Entomobrya nivalis, Neanura muscorum, Orchesella flavescens, Paratullbergia macdougalli and Tomocerus vulgaris. The 5th stage would be the climax stage, an old oak forest. It is probably not comparable to a true primeval forest, but the type of forest typical for today’s mining sites. Only 2 species were found here: Micraphorura absoloni and Entomobrya corticalis. For the endogaeic community, data is even more based on statistical evidence. Succession of the endogaeic community is more dependent on soil parameters and succession of microflora. Generally, succession is from Mesaphorura atlantica on acidic sites and Proisotoma minuta on sites with higher pH to a Mesaphorura macrochaeta community, followed by a Parisotoma notabilis dominated community. Older afforested sites are dominated by Isotomiella minor and old oak forest on undisturbed sites by Folsomia penicula. Duration of the single successional stages depends on parameters like pH, moisture, vegetational structure and availability of certain fungi as basic food resource.