Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development

Description

Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily. However, it is also one of the most environmentally damaging industries. This study examines how such a huge and multi-facetted industry can be made sustainable, minimizing its harmful impacts and maximizing its social and economic contribution. It analyses the different needs and risks of those affected, as well as issues of supply and demand of minerals throughout the world.

Edited by Linda Starke, who has edited numerous editions of the annual State of the World report from the Worldwatch Institute, and other reports. Published with the International Institute for Environment and Development and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

One for the bookshelf - if only as a safeguard.' Corporate Citizenship Briefing 'The first in-depth review of the mining and minerals sector from the perspectives of sustainable development, undertaken with the support and engagement of mining companies, mining communities, and a broad range of other stakeholders.' Cultural Survival Quarterly 'Sets out the challenges in this industry and highlights the need for a broad-based process of initiation in order to make the mining and minerals sector sustainable.' Industrial Environmental Management