Environmental management in mining and mineral processing in developing countries

Alyson Warhurst

Natural Resources Forum, 1992, vol. 16, issue 1, 39-48

Abstract: This paper analyses some of the social, political and economic dimensions of the environmental behaviour of mining enterprises and governments in the context of evolving regulation, growing public concern and technological innovation. Contrary to the belief that a trade‐off exists between production costs and environmental costs, which presupposes a static technology, new generations of technology offer improved economic and environmental efficiency. Technical change is therefore reducing both production and environmental costs. Because most planned mines and available reserves are in developing countries, situations may develop whereby technical change reduces that trade‐off for them.

Date: 1992
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