Sustainability in Mining
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (7 September 2022) | Viewed by 25725
Special Issue Editors
Interests: life cycle assessment; sustainability; data quality; environmental modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For thousands of years, resources obtained from mining have been essential for a functioning and prospering human economy, and today, they still are. Mining provides jobs, and potential welfare, to benefit regions and economies. On the other side, mining activities have shaped and modified landscapes, causing environmental and social impacts, up to a total devastation of natural, local environments.
Recent years have seen tremendous, manifold efforts to make mining more sustainable, sometimes even with a stated goal of achieving a “sustainable mining”, a combination of sustainability and mining activities, which may appear as an oxymoron, a combination of two aspects that do not consistently fit together—at least, this combination may be very challenging.
Sustainability, therefore, will launch a Special Issue on environmental sustainability in mining. Dr. Andreas Ciroth and Claudia Di Noi serve as Guest Editors.
The Special Issue focuses on three points:
- The ways to determine the environmental and sustainability impact of mining, in a fair, sufficiently comprehensive, and efficient way;
- The ways to make mining more sustainable, with emphasis on environmental impacts, illustrated with practical cases or theory;
- The ways, and good and not so good practices, to communicate information about environmental and other sustainability impacts, of mining activities, to local communities, and other stakeholders.
Contributions are welcome!
Dr. Andreas Ciroth
Guest Editor
Ms. Claudia Di Noi
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- life cycle
- measuring sustainability
- mining activities
- communication
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