Public preferences for timeliness and quality of mine site rehabilitation. The case of bauxite mining in Western Australia

Michael Burton, Shegufa Jasmine Zahedi and Ben White

Resources Policy, 2012, vol. 37, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Government departments that regulate environmental management for mining have a range of choices about the timing and quality of rehabilitation. Economic theory suggests that the cost incurred by firms should relate to the social cost of the environmental damage, however, there has been little work done on non-market values for mine rehabilitation. This study uses choice modelling to assess these issues for bauxite mining in state owned native forest in south-west Australia. The results show that the public place a relatively high value on the re-creation of vertebrate habitat and would prefer in situ mine rehabilitation over environmental offsets. Alcoa's current rehabilitation practices appear to be supported by the preferences revealed in this study.

Keywords: Choice modelling; Bauxite; Mine rehabilitation; Environmental policy; Non-market valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q51 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2012.01.004

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