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

By MMSD on May 6, 2002

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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Publisher: IISD

Copyright: IISD, 2002

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