Abstract
BackgroundMining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause conflict, not least in relation to above-ground and sub-surface land use. Similarly, mining can alter environments, but remediation and mitigation can restore systems. Boreal and Arctic regions are sensitive to impacts from development, both on social and environmental systems. Native ecosystems and aboriginal human communities are typically affected by multiple stressors, including climate change and pollution, for example.MethodsWe will search a suite of bibliographic databases, online search engines and organisational websites for relevant research literature using a tested search strategy. We will also make a call for evidence to stakeholders that have been identified in the wider 3MK project (https://osf.io/cvh3u/). We will screen identified and retrieved articles at two distinct stages (title and abstract, and full text) according to a predetermined set of inclusion criteria, with consistency checks at each level to ensure criteria can be made operational. We will then extract detailed information relating to causal linkages between actions or impacts and measured outcomes, along with descriptive information about the articles and studies and enter data into an interactive systematic map database. We will visualise this database on an Evidence Atlas (an interactive, cartographic map) and identify knowledge gaps and clusters using Heat Maps (cross-tabulations of important variables, such as mineral type and studied impacts). We will identify good research practices that may support researchers in selecting the best study designs where these are clear in the evidence base.
Highlights
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways
Mining can have positive and negative impacts on humans and societies. Negative impacts include those on human health (e.g. [11]) and living standards [12], for example
Mining is known to affect traditional practices of Indigenous peoples living in nearby communities [13], and conflicts in land use are often present, as are other social impacts including those related to public health and human wellbeing
Summary
The review will follow the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence Guidelines and Standards for Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Management [38] and it conforms to ROSES reporting standards [39] (see Additional file 1). We will save the first 100 search results from each search string as PDF/HTML files and screening the results in situ, recording all relevant full texts for inclusion in the systematic map database. Bibliographic searches Relevant reviews that are identified during screening will be reserved for assessment of potentially missed records. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) 25. Http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca http://www.eea.europa.eu/ http://dnr.alaska.gov http://www.arcticcentre.org http://www.arctic-council.org http://www.bioforsk.no http://www.blm.gov http://www.caff.is http://www.ec.gc.ca http://www.rktl.fi http://www.natur.gl http://www.grida.no http://www.iucn.org http://www.mnr.gov.ru http://www.nrcan.gc.ca http://www.norden.org http://www.norut.no http://www.dirnat.no http://www.nina.no http://www.npolar.no http://www.ecoguild.ru http://www.rusrec.ru http://www.samediggi.fi http://www.sametinget.no http://www.eng.samer.se http://www.slu.se http://www.unep.org http://www.epa.gov http://www.fws.gov http://www.uaa.alaska.edu https://www.amap.no/ http://www.miljodirektoratet.no/en/ http://www.science.gc.ca/eic/site/063.nsf/eng/h_7A463DBA.html http://www.niva.no http://www.havochvatten.se http://www.unep.org http://www.epa.gov http://bbop.forest-trends.org/ https://www.zinc.org/about/ https://www.ila-lead.org/home http://www.ilzsg.org/static/home.aspx http://copperalliance.org/ https://www.icsg.org/ https://www.metallics.org/.
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