Sustainable development goals in mining

Monteiro, Nathalie Barbosa Reis; Silva, Elaine Aparecida da; Neto, José Machado Moita

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.332

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“…Whereas Endl, Tost, Hitch, Moser, and Feiel (2019) and Said and Chuenpagdee (2019) use a conceptual approach, Moomen et al (2019) review prior literature. Monteiro, da Silva, and Moita Neto (2019) and Selmier and Newenham‐Kahindi (2017) investigate American and African industry contexts through onsite visits. All these papers do not emphasize specific goals but rather refer to the whole set of SDGs.…”

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

2020

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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries that provide a global framework for achieving global development while balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability. SDGs are addressed to all actors in society, but both academia and professional recognize the particular importance of businesses. However, research is still needed to understand the role of companies as sustainable development agents. Relying on Scopus database consultation, the current research adopts an interdisciplinary systematic literature review to investigate, analyze, and present state-of-the-art academic literature on the role of businesses in tackling SDGs. The final sample comprises 101 papers published between 2015 and 2020. It provides evidence that the main topics discussed by scholars are related to aspects of strategy execution. Recognizing different streams that are currently unexplored-despite strictly related to strategic business activities and to the sustainable development as a whole-the study provides many insights for future research on business and SDGs.

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

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“…Therefore, land reclamation and land management after the closure of the mine will be an important factor. This problem is highlighted in many publications referring to mining and its impact on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly in the form of a universal, integrated and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of 17 SDG and 169 associated targets [3] [11]. Factors resulting from geological conditions, such as the ratio of overburden to the amount of coal in the seams that are exploited also translate directly into this category and into the indicators related to the energy necessary to remove the overburden.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of opencast lignite mining

Lelek

Kulczycka

2020

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The life cycle phase of fossil fuel extraction is mainly considered in the LCA when evaluating the energy production processes. It is then only one of many unit processes, which contribute to the blurring of mining-relevant results. There are few items in the literature focusing exclusively on the lignite mining phase and analysing the specific mining conditions and associated environmental impacts. The article focuses on the LCA of lignite mining pro-cesses on the basis of data coming from a Polish mine. The technology for opencast lignite mining is noted for its high production efficiency, high level of recovery and lower risk as regards the safety of workers when compared with underground mining systems. However, the need to remove large amounts of overburden to uncover the deposit contributes to a much greater degradation of the landscape. Analysing the results obtained, several key (hot spot) elements of the lignite mining operations were distinguished for modelling the environmental impact, i.e.: calorific value, the amount of electricity consumption, the manner in which waste and overburden are managed. As a result there is a high sensitivity of the final indicator to changes in these impacts.

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“…SDG 14 consists of 2 economic targets plus 8 environmental dies conducted on waste handling by Lima et al (2021) and Blue Economy (BE) by Lee et al (2020). Several researches focused on socio-economical fields such as poverty-fighting (Benevenuto and Caulfield, 2019), zero hunger (Dhahri and Omri, 2020), well-being and good health (Solís et al, 2018), and gender equality (Monteiro et al, 2019). A set of monitoring indicators were established and used to perform the necessary assessment into case studies selected carefully in this researches.…”

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Sustainable Development Importance in Higher Education for Occupational Health and Safety Using Egypt Vision 2030 under COVID-19 Pandemic

Mouneer¹

2021

GEP

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Insertion of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into higher education is an important concern. This article aims to address the influences of SDGs in higher and engineering educational system in Egypt. The present study focuses on SDGs 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, and 11. SDG 3 is related to occupational health and SDG 4 is related to higher education development. However, SDGs 6, 7, 9, and 11 are related to both mechanical and environmental engineering, and occupational safety. The study approach involves case risk analysis, investigations, and review for design concepts of occupational health and safety before and after the Coronavirus disease . A number of cross-sectional studies that constitute 125 multidisciplinary research plans (MDRPs) are grouped to monitor and evaluate two main factors which are an influence of involving SDGs into engineering education and selected curriculum of occupational health and safety. Then the results of these research-based studies, which performed over four academic years started from 2017 up to date 2021, are depicted and discussed. These results reveal the importance of interlink between engineering education and the intended SDGs. The latest 25 MDRPs demonstrate that Egypt response to alleviate the COVID-19 is rapidly pronounced specially on SDGs 3 and 4 simultaneously. However, those MDRPs show that neither record impacts nor delays on SDGs 6, 7, 9 and 11. The conclusions prioritize both the advanced educational mechanisms and verify the engineering curriculums to raise awareness of SDGs among both staff members and students in Egyptian universities. Finally, future work is recommended at the end of this article to focus on each specific goal to gain deep insight to state of the art for each SDG around globe using education development.

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Sustainable development goals in mining

Cited by 175 publications

References 74 publications

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Life Cycle Assessment of opencast lignite mining

Sustainable Development Importance in Higher Education for Occupational Health and Safety Using Egypt Vision 2030 under COVID-19 Pandemic

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