Abstract
Sustainable mining has received much attention in recent years as a consequence of the negative impacts of mining and public awareness. The aim of this paper is to provide mining companies guidance on improving the sustainability of their sites through effective community engagement based on recent advances in the literature. It begins with a review of the literature on sustainable development and its relationship to stakeholder engagement. It then uses the literature to determine the dominant factors that affect community perceptions of mining projects. These factors are classified into five categories: environmental, economic, social, governance and demographic factors. Then, we propose a new two-stage method based on discrete choice theory and the classification that can improve stakeholder engagement and be cost-effective. Further work is required to validate the proposed method, although it shows potential to overcome some of the challenges plaguing current approaches.
Highlights
IntroductionConcerns over how to ensure sustainable development (the ability of current generations to meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) have increased over the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
In the past decade, concerns over how to ensure sustainable development have increased over the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
The mining industry has progressed from environmental compliance, to corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, to social license to operate (SLO) and to sustainability reporting with standards like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) [12,13,14,15,16,17,18]
Summary
Concerns over how to ensure sustainable development (the ability of current generations to meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) have increased over the world [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. The negative environmental and social impacts of mining operations have attracted attention from governments, non-governmental organizations, the public and other stakeholders. How mining can contribute to sustainable development has become a key challenge for the industry. Stakeholder engagement has, become a key component of managing mines or projects for sustainable outcomes [21]. The peer-reviewed literature contains many contributions in this area [12,32,33,34,35,36,37,38] All of these show that mines and mining businesses have a role to play in the sustainable development of their host communities and the world, at large
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