Innovation and Technology Driven Sustainability Performance Management Framework (ITSPM) for the Mining and Minerals Sector

Abstract

Sustainable development (SD) has been defined as the development that lasts while also contributing to a better quality of life for everyone involved (stakeholders). This is a global concept that integrates and balances the social, economic, and environment factors. A major component of implementing the SD concepts is its governance. Activities such as training and developing standards of measuring SD (indicators) are of critical importance for control and proper implementation of SD for the mining and minerals industry in a global scale maintaining the local constraints. Achieving project sustainability satisfies a local sustainability goal, which in turn would contribute to the corporate sustainability, and then the global sustainability of a country or a region. A sustainable development framework in the form of sustainable performance management (SPM) is addressed. Implementation of SPM requires a set of indicators for measuring, monitoring, and reporting the progress. This paper emphasises the need for innovation and technology driven sustainable performance management (ITSPM) framework, encapsulated by a Multi-Stakeholder Process (MSP) for performance management and developing the relevant performance indicators.

Devising indicators of sustainable development for the mining and minerals industry: An analysis of critical background issues

“…As is premised in Figure 1, the pillars of sustainability are supported by the foundation of 'good governance' (after Basu and Kumar, 2002), and take the forms of technical and design guidelines, standards, and codes of practice for implementing health, safety, and environment regulations. In this model, it is presupposed that innovation and 'best practice approaches' in technology implementation underpin 'good governance', in effect, constituting the foundation of the three pillars of sustainability.…”

“…Rather, this paper aims at providing a background synthesis of pertinent mining-sustainable development issues for the researcher keen on devising a set of SDIs for industry application. It is critical that pressing issues are first identified, and then integrated Figure 1 Proposed draft framework for achieving sustainable development (after Basu and Kumar, 2002) progressively into an appropriate management framework.…”

Towards a sustainability criteria and indicators framework for legacy mine land

“…Whilst mining is a globally important industry the concept of 'sustainable mining' is viewed by some as an oxymoron [3,4,12].…”

Integration of sustainable development concepts in open pit mine design

“…The United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in its 1987 report "Our Common Future" defines sustainable development as: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (WCED, 1987). There is common acceptance that SD involves consideration of environmental, economic and social aspects (Cowell et al, 1999;Glavic and Lukman, 2007;Botin, 2009) that is supported by the foundation of good governance (Basu and Kumar, 2004). After acceptance of the SD concept by a wide range of companies and governments, they start to integrate SD aspects in their activities.…”