The Status of the Local Community in Mining Sustainable Development beyond the Triple Bottom Line

Abstract

Abstract:Mineral products provide essential fuels and raw materials for industrialization and our daily life, but their influences on other aspects of life need to be taken into consideration. While the whole world benefits from mining's contributions, most of the resulting detrimental impacts on the environment and society fall on the local communities. The participation of the local community is one solution to decrease the risks from community-related problems. Subsequently, the requirements of mining sustainable development can be met. A literature review was conducted on mining sustainability and stakeholder participation, and the shortcomings of existing research and difficulties of further study were discussed in detail. This study covers a broad understanding of mining sustainability from a mining community's perspective. In addition, it offers a new mining sustainability scope based on the literature review. Besides the balance of economic, environmental, and social aspects, the mine owner and local community have to be engaged in the new mining sustainability scope. This literature review could improve community engagement and help mining companies to better understand local mining communities.

Companies Participation in Developing Sustainability in Local Communities: a Literature Review

“…Since 1930s, stakeholder engagement was the first aspect established and applied in the field of business management; only in 1990 did the topic gain relevance for the implementation of sustainability policies and from the 2000s, a growing wave of interest in the issues of sustainable gained visibility (QUE et al, 2018).…”

“…From this perspective, stakeholder engagement as a technique is used to investigate the behavior and preference of individuals who share similar characteristics (Que et al, 2018). Their results can be used to organize their preferences and thus promote the progress of decision-making (QUE et al, 2018). It is possible to gain an improved understanding of stakeholder wishes and thus formulate sustainability policies that are more in line with community needs.…”

“…It is possible to gain an improved understanding of stakeholder wishes and thus formulate sustainability policies that are more in line with community needs. However, there are some difficulties in the relationship with these actors, among them stands out, how to explain to the community the development of the projects and the possible impacts, as they use technical terms which difficult the dialogue (QUE et al, 2018). Roseland, Cureton and Wornell (2005) and Markey, Connelly, and Roseland (2010) state that the main goal of sustainability planning is the transformation of the community through democratic dialogue and decision-making in which all citizens participate.…”

In Pursuit of Financial Justice: Local African Communities’ Quest for Legal Redress Against Business-Related Human Rights Abuses

“…Scholarship in addressing these twin issues has been scarce. Instead, the academic literature has focused on the indirect impact of mining activities that have resulted in the poor health and well-being of local communities (Hresc et al 2018); failure to redistribute mining company's revenue generation to benefit local communities (Rawashdeh et al 2016); improving local communities engagement in developing sustainable mining activities (Que et al 2018); and corruption within the mining sector that results in the exploitation of local communities (As'ad 2017). The discourse on access to justice by local communities whose human rights have been violated, specifically their property rights, and the interrelated right to health and a clean and healthy environment, have not been examined through a qualitative analysis of data sourced out of judicial and non-judicial entities.…”

Corporate Social Responsibility: Understanding the Mining Stakeholder with a Case Study

“…However, mining companies, government agencies, and other stakeholders have no systematic way of incorporating mining community acceptance into the design of new mining projects. There are three main shortcomings in current studies, which are outlined in the authors' previous comprehensive literature review: (1) the engagement of community is more likely to reduce to triple bottom; (2) the demographics of local communities are insufficient for the purpose of sustainability; (3) a qualitative method of analysis is predominant [10].…”