Le Meur Pierre-Yves auteur aut IRD Levacher C. auteur aut IRD Bouard S. auteur aut IRD Herrenschmidt J. B. auteur aut IRD Sabinot Catherine auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Mining is a land-based activity and mining companies have to negotiate with local landowners their license to operate. Even when they succeed in negotiating impact and benefit agreements with local communities, and start their operations, companies can face various claims and contests arising at various moments of the project cycle and that they are often unable to anticipate or analyse. The program presented in this contribution - NERVAL: 'negotiate, evaluate, and recognise the value of place' funded by the agency CNRT 'Nickel and its environment' - was conceived on these premises by an interdisciplinary team of anthropologists, geographers, and economists. It developed, following a participatory and inter-sectoral logic, a research-based approach to provide stakeholders (mining companies, local governments, customary authorities) with an analytical grid helping them to decipher the land-related contexts and issues and to identify stakes and actors. Based on case studies carried out in mining localities of New Caledonia and a non-mining site, an analytical grid was developed around the four categories of territory, event, risk, and social actor. The paper presents and discusses this toolkit both in conceptual terms and as regards its operational potential. specialized Value of place Event Recognition Basic applied research Land-mine nexus NOUVELLE CALEDONIE 021 096 098 8 1 44-54 2021 2214-790X https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081015 10.1016/j.exis.2020.08.010 2214-790X [F B010081015] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081015 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2021/03/010081015.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2021-04-01 2025-02-24 fdi:010081015 fre