Course: Sustainable Management in the Extractive Industry

In this video, Pamela provides an overview of the topics that will be covered during this week. She also introduces different forms of impact assessment, identifies relevant stakeholders and important …

A quarry extension permit and conflicting authority decisions A shared understanding on what constitutes nature conservation and what is worth conserving is not always given. This ultimately can result in …

Bonelli’s Eagle and a quarry Alcover Quarry is located close to the Muntanyes de Prades protected area. Muntanyes de Prades is included in the Plan for Areas of Natural Interest …

As highlighted in the SUMEX European Sustainable Development Analytical Framework report, the discourse around sustainability over the past 30 years recognizes the limits of traditional environmental policies, which tend to …

The approach of the SUMEX project is to look at sustainability via accounting for environmental limits and links to societal goals. An operationalisation of sustainable development often represents an isolated …

In the extractives sector, both the policy and industry efforts have gone a long way to improve environmental performance, increase trust towards local community and society overall, and satisfy raw …

Competing land uses The reasons for tensions and trade-offs related to land use are comprised of the competing land use between sectors/stakeholders, such as problems of dedicating land for extractive …

Following the introduction of the resource based approach, you can find information on a SUMEX case study below. This case illustrates that effective Land Use planning can consolidate competition for …

This article will provide a general introduction to impact assessment and highlight how specific challenges can be approached and by using coherent environmental and socio-economic impact assessments. First, we want …

Let us look more closely at what the contribution of sustainability reporting is with respect to being a system change lever in the extractive sector. Here, we utilize the Leverage …

Reporting is the practice of publicly disclosing and communicating the economic, environmental, and social performance of a company. Sustainability reporting is crucial for a sustainable business. However, it is not …

What is the process of designing and planning new extractive operations? Industrial activities, such as mineral extraction, similar to any other human activity, impact human society (provides resources or endangers …

Here, we provide you with some insights on the effectiveness of different health and safety practices in their contribution to the sustainability transition in the extractive sector. We utilize the …

Following the interesting webinar from which you could hopefuly take away pieces of knowledge, we will now delve into real life examples where Land Use planning approaches and practices were …

Welcome to our ‘expert insight’ activity, which will provide interesting analyses of Land Use planning practices. We hope you will enjoy the exciting materials that we have prepared! Current practices …