Environmental and Social Disclosure and Data-Richness in the Mining Industry

Knud Sinding () and Philip Peck ()
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Knud Sinding: Department of Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark
Philip Peck: International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University

No 36/02, Working Papers from University of Southern Denmark, Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics

Abstract: Self-regulation by firms and industries in relation to the environmental impact they cause is not a full substitute for more traditional regulation of environ-mental externalities. However, some self-regulatory efforts do involve very spe-cific actions that serve to reduce externalities for a specific industry and certainly achieve more than the presentation of a responsible image to the world. An example of such efforts that go beyond common claims about “sus-tainable activities”, are seen in the increasing numbers of mining firms that generate and issue environmental reports. While there is as yet no indisputable proof that reporting has a direct effect on environmental performance, this pa-per shows that within a single industry there are wide variations in reporting practices and that sincerity is apparent in the process.

Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2002-11
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