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 UNEP
Publication on Mining and the Environment, the UNEP
Production and Consumption Unit / Mining website.
Free
copies of the following publications can be downloaded:
Regulatory Approaches for the 21st Century - How Government
Regulations Interface with Voluntary Initiatives to Improve the
Environmental Performance of the Mining Sector (March 2002) Workshop
Report is available in a PDF
(8 MB) or zip
format (3 MB)
More
downloadable documents have been added to the following sections:
- Risk
Management and Contingency Planning in the Management of Mine Tailings
(UNEP/ICME) - PDF files by chapters or the whole document
- Managing
the Risks of Tailings Disposal (UNEP/ICME / Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency) - PDF files by chapters or the whole
document
- Mine
Rehabilitation for Environment and Health Protection - a trainers
manual (UNEP/WHO, 1998) - both PDF and Word documents by chapters
- Environment
Management of Mine Sites - PDF files by chapters or the whole
document
Environmental
Technology Assessment (EnTA), 2001 (1.7 MB)
(ILMC/CDG/Recyclers Inc./Technicas Reunidas/UNCTAD, Manila, Republic
of the Philippines, February 2000)
Abandoned
Mines: Problems, Issues and Policy Challenges for Decision Makers,
2001 (1.2 MB)
(UNEP/COCHILCO, Santiago, Chile, June 2001)
Accident
Prevention in Mining - Environmental Regulation For Accident Prevention:
Tailings and Chemicals
Management, 2000 (121 KB)
(UNEP/Government of Australia, Perth, Western Australia, October
2000)
Industry
Codes of Practice: Cyanide Management, 2000 (99 KB)
(UNEP/ICME, Paris, France, May 2000)
Cyanide
Spill at Baia Mare Romania: Assessment Mission Report, 2000
(1.7 MB) (UNEP/OCHA)
Report
on the International Round Table on Mining and the Environment,
1999 (372 KB)
(UNEP/UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN DESA, Berlin,
Germany, November 1999)
Environmental
Literacy in Mining Education, 1999 (548 KB)
(The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia/UNEP, Perth,
Australia, October 1999)
Development,
Environment and Mining. Enhancing the Contribution of the Mineral
Industry to Sustainable Development, 1994 (2.3 MB)
(World Bank/UNEP/UNCTAD/ICME, Washington D.C., U.S.A. June 1994)
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Environment
Australia - Sustainable Minerals Program
Two new products have recently been added to the Sustainable
Minerals Program website, an updated Overview of the BPEM booklet
and 9 booklets that have been translated into Spanish.
The Overview booklet can be viewed at
http://www.ea.gov.au/industry/sustainable/mining/
booklets/overview/index.html
and the Spanish booklets can be viewed at
http://www.ea.gov.au/industry/sustainable/mining/
booklets/spanish/index.html (10 September 2002)
The
March 2002 issue of Natural Resources Forum -
published on behalf of the United Nations -
a special issue focusing on Mining, People and the Environment
Natural
Resources Canada - Minerals and Metals Sector Publications
Natural
Resources Canada - Environmental Laboratory
Scientific Publications (1995 - 2001)
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