Can Mining Help Deliver the SDGs: Discourses, Risks and Prospects

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume32
dc.contributor.authorFrederiksen T
dc.contributor.authorBanks G
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T22:26:57Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-25T20:49:32Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T22:26:57Z
dc.date.available2023-10-25T20:49:32Z
dc.date.issued2023-03
dc.date.updated2023-10-18T20:11:55Z
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we explore the mining sector’s potential to contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by examining its past engagement with sustainable development. Once a pariah, the mining industry is now very active in the sustainability space and played a key role in the development of the SDGs. In this paper, we first examine two key texts in evolving institutional frameworks: the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) Project and the recent Mapping Mining to the SDGs, highlighting their limited framing of sustainable development. Then, we examine how sustainable development concerns and voluntary standards have been translated into practice by mining companies. Analysing this history and track record shows an approach to sustainable development which sidesteps contradictions at the heart of the mining industry’s production processes, all of which bode ill for their potential to contribute meaningfully to the SDGs.
dc.format.extent83-106
dc.identifier.citationFrederiksen T, Banks G. (2023). Can Mining Help Deliver the SDGs: Discourses, Risks and Prospects. Journal of Environment and Development. 32. 1. (pp. 83-106).
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/10704965221139759
dc.identifier.eissn1552-5465
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
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dc.identifier.issn1070-4965
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/20390
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.isPartOfJournal of Environment and Development
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0en_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.titleCan Mining Help Deliver the SDGs: Discourses, Risks and Prospects
dc.typeJournal article
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