The Extractive Industries and Society | 2021
Mining legacies––Broadening understandings of mining impacts
Abstract
While historically the extractives sector has done little to address the impacts of its activities (Harvey, 2014, 8), recent decades have seen resource companies “become more socially and environmentally conscious” (de Lange et al., 2018, 269). The sector appears to have undergone profound changes as reflected in industry discourses around sustainable and responsible mining and mining for development (International Council on Mining and Metals, 2001; International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002)...