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RESOURCES POLICY
Volume 49, Issue -, Pages 119-128Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.04.009
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Sustainability; Mining; Mine tailings; Environment and society; Environmental regulation
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This paper addresses the question of whether mining can be done in a way that contains and remediates environmental impacts and thereby safeguards the livelihoods of local populations. It focuses on tailings storage facilities (TSF) as the source of most mining-related disasters. It compares outcomes at three mines two which ended in disaster and one notable success - to try to get at what factors are critical in producing these outcomes. Although the design and construction of TSFs is technically challenging,the paper concludes that the basic causes of TSF failure are political, not technical. A second purpose of this paper is to suggest that a social scientific analysis of engineered projects needs to pay attention to the engineering. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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