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Seven Questions to Sustainability - How to Assess the Contribution of Mining and Minerals Activities

» MMSD, IISD, 2002. Book, 66 pages, copyright: IISD, ISBN 1-895536-54-5

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development North America set out to develop practical principles, criteria and/or indicators that could be used to guide or test mining and minerals activities in terms of their compatibility with sustainable development. Seven Questions to Sustainability: How to Assess the Contribution of Mining and Minerals Activities offers the strategy and the template.


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Spanish version ISBN 1-895536-78-2

Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Executive Summary
Section 1. Introduction
Section 2. Sustainability, Mining and the Non-renewable Character of Minerals
Section 3. Scope of the Seven Questions
Section 4. The Seven Questions in Summary
Section 5. Comments by Life-cycle Phase
Section 6. Why is This Task Important?
Section 7. Issues in Bringing Theory to Practice
Section 8. The Seven Questions in Detail
Section 9. Next Steps: Pilot Testing and Ongoing Collaboration
Appendix - Foundation Background Documents