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Briefing Papers
The documents available from this page are intended
to provoke thought and debate. They are the sole responsibility
of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of UNEP.
If you have a document that you think would be appropriate, please
send it to minerals.forum@unep.fr.
If you have a suggestion for a topic that you think should be covered
by a briefing paper, please send an email message to the same address.
Most of the documents here are in pdf format.
In order to read them, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available
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Abandoned Mine Sites: Problems,
Issues and Options
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Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies
at Local Level - UNEP's APELL Programme
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Closure Concepts
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Contract Mining
and Environmental Risk
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Corporate Social Responsibility
and the Mining Industry
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Counting
What Counts: External Verification of the Australian Minerals
Industry Code for Environmental Management
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Designer Waste
(Hugh Jones, Senior Consultant, Golder Associates, Perth,
Australia)
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Emerging Environmental Issues
for Mining
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Empty Words, Empty
Phrases
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Environmental Codes
in Industry: An international overview
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Environmental Issues in Tailings
Management
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Ethics, Environment and Exploitation
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Financial Provisions
for Mine Closure
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International Environmental Conventions
Important to National Mining Legislation
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Minerals Education
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Minerals
and Metals: Towards a Sustainable Future
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Small-Scale Mining and the Environment
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Small-Scale Mining: A Sector in Need
of Support
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Social
and Labour Issues in Small-Scale Mines
Los
Problemas Sociales y Laborales en las Explotaciones Mineras
Pequeñas
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Social
and labour issues in small-scale mines. Report for discussion
at the Tripartite Meeting on Social and Labour Issues in Small-scale
Mines, Geneva, 17-21 May 1999. International Labour Office
Geneva
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Suggested
action at the European Union level to prevent unregulated, accidental
pollution from metal mining activities (WWF, May 1999)
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The Rise of the
Community
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The
tailings pond failure at the Aznalcóllar mine, Spain (N.
Eriksson Boliden Environmental Staff, Aznalcóllar, Spain and
P. Adamek Mine Environmental Consultant, Sevilla, Spain) 114
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Toxic
waste storage sites in Europe. A preliminary risk inventory
(WWF + VUA, April 1999)
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UNEP’s Activities in Mining
and the Environment
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Use of Financial
Surety for Environmental Purposes
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What is the Community?
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Mining and Sustainable Development
While most, if not all, of the above documents address
the practicalities of mining and sustainable development in some way,
there have also been many articles that examine the issue broadly.
The following publications take a general, overall look at this vast
topic.
There has also been some discussion of this subject
in the Questions and
Answers section.
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