Sustainable Mining

Kirsch, Stuart

doi:10.1007/s10624-009-9113-x

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“…Contamination due to mining activities from one mining project for instance, may disturb a wide range of square kilometres and AMD may sterilise the environment, making it unsuitable for plant growth for many years to come. Notwithstanding the undeniable proof of the conservational destruction triggered by excavating coal during the preceding years, the business holistically encouraged the corporate oxymoron of ecological quarrying of land [12]. Therefore, coal-mining companies should control the discharge of AMD into the environment.…”

Section: Effect Of Coal-mining Activities On the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Information Framework for Facilitating Cost Saving of Environmental Impacts in the Coal Mining Industry in South Africa

Mbedzi

Poll

2018

Sustainability

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Coal-mining contributes much to the economic welfare of a country. Yet it brings along a number of challenges, notably environmental impacts which include water pollution in a water scarce country such as South Africa. This research is conducted in two phases. The first phase intends to establish environmental and other challenges brought about by the coal-mining industry through a comprehensive analysis of available literature. Combatting these challenges is costly; consequently, our work investigates how established management accounting tools and techniques such as Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) may facilitate cost savings for the companies involved. These techniques promote increased transparency of material usage by tracing and quantifying the flows and inventories of materials within the coal-mining industry in physical and monetary terms, hence hidden costs are elicited. The researchers postulate that an Information Framework integrating these aspects may be the way forward. To this end existing frameworks in the literature are identified. A number of research questions embodying the above aspects are defined and the objective is to define a conceptual framework to facilitate cost savings for coal-mining companies. The main contribution of this work is an information framework presented towards the end of this article. The second phase of the research will involve fieldwork in the form of a survey among stakeholders in industry to validate the conceptual framework.

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Section: Effect Of Coal-mining Activities On the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Information Framework for Facilitating Cost Saving of Environmental Impacts in the Coal Mining Industry in South Africa

Mbedzi

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2018

Sustainability

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“…Here, despite their packaging in the language of partnership and empowerment, and the 'smiling face' with which they are offered (Shever, 2010;) the gifts of development offered by mining corporations are a territorial strategy and a technique to counter opposition. As this work demonstrates, nowadays PR savvy extractive industries 'want to cuddle' (Burton, 2002) offering a range of donations which attempt to rebrand the corporation as compassionate, caring, in partnership with 'local communities' (Zilak, 2004;Rajak, 2009; or refracting the discourses of environmentalism with which they are critiqued to suggest that they are protecting the environment and contributing to local culture (Welker, 2009;Rogers, 2012;Kirsch, 2010). Meanwhile, even as these manoeuvres result in increased conflict, violence and struggle the programmes ensure that the reputation of the corporation is left intact (see in particular Welker, 2009;Zilak, 2004).…”

Section: The Development Gift and Csrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The answer is that by using such terms the programme and its directors were attempting to elide themselves with morally virtuous disconnected development, avoiding the ethical contamination of patronage and reciprocity, but failing to recognise the complex and morally muddy terrain in which they were operating. Like 'sustainability' they had created an oil company oxymoron (Kirsch, 2010; see also Sawyer, 2010). As Cornwall has pointed out, in 'Development Speak' terms such as empowerment allow a fuzzy, feel-good factor; these are 'words that admit no negatives, words that evoke Good Things that no-one could possibly disagree with.'…”

Section: A Moral Economy Of Disconnection: Corporate Community Engagementioning

confidence: 99%

Chevron's gift of CSR: moral economies of connection and disconnection in a transnational Bangladeshi village

Gardner¹

2015

Economy and Society

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“…More so, Trigger's point amplifies that made by Spivak and Kapoor -that the culture of 'development' related to mining carries with it a discourse in which the company is construed as bringing civilization and modernity to a 'primitive ', undeveloped' situation (Trigger 1997;Kirsch 2010). In such a case the thematic discourses concerned with Mining and Development are as important as are the cultural specificities that work to construct the power relations of that given environment.…”

Section: Discourse and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For anti-mining thinkers, mining is a 'false promise' of modernity that leads the community to betrayal, disconnection and hardship (Coumans 2011;Kirsch 2010). For the pro-mining and pro-development theorists, there is a 'promise' of modernity off-set by mining that is central to future community well-being and prosperity (World Bank 2010).…”

Section: Discourse and Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Community and company development discourses in mining: The case of gender in Mongolia

Cane¹

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This thesis examines ontological commitments and accompanying discursive power relations that frame the negotiation of Mining and Development in the minerals industry in the South Gobi of Mongolia. The aims of the analysis are to explore the culture of companies and communities in the region, critically examine the discourse of the shared relationship, and assess implications for community development initiatives in the minerals industry more broadly.By premising and privileging the culturally situated subject, Women and Development feminist theory assists in unpacking the power relations between communities and mining companies situated within or governed by cross-cultural contexts. An analysis of the discourse on Mining and Development, gender issues and patriarchy in the context of Social Impact Assessment processes, reveals asymmetrical power relations operating both within and between companies and communities that have an effect on community development. In applying a feminist theoretical perspective, the thesis argues that the companies' ontological commitments differ markedly from those of the South Gobi communities with which they are engaged, resulting in different conceptualisations of 'development', social impacts, and decision-making processes.The thesis demonstrates that commitments to particular ontological frames lead companies to implicitly prioritise their own notions of power, change, and impacts over those of the community. The thesis contends that the lack of understanding of Mongolian ontology generates conflict, tensions, and/or unsustainable practices for both communities and companies in the South Gobi. Research in this thesis indicates that the recognition of difference between these ontological commitments needs to be central to the discourse of Mining and Development in Mongolia if the benefits of mining are to be enhanced for the community.Limited research has been conducted into the impacts and development associated with the rapidly emerging mining industry in Mongolia. This thesis identifies and explores key themes around the negotiation of change in Mongolia, which provides insight into the broader field of Central Asian Studies. Similarly, the thesis contributes to the emerging fields of Mining and Development, and Gender and Development by providing an original critique to enable an understanding of minerals development in a developing world context.

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Sustainable Mining

Cited by 145 publications

References 8 publications

An Information Framework for Facilitating Cost Saving of Environmental Impacts in the Coal Mining Industry in South Africa

An Information Framework for Facilitating Cost Saving of Environmental Impacts in the Coal Mining Industry in South Africa

Chevron's gift of CSR: moral economies of connection and disconnection in a transnational Bangladeshi village

Community and company development discourses in mining: The case of gender in Mongolia

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