Problems of the social non-acceptance of mining projects with particular emphasis on the European Union – a literature review

• Authors: Jarosław Badera
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Problems of the social non-acceptance of the mining industry (particularly development projects) is relatively new, so more widely discussed for a relatively short time. In this paper, an extensive review of worldwide literature on this topic has been presented with special regard to the specificity of the European Union countries, where the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) phenomenon is one of the key reasons for local community opposition. The problem is recognized mainly from the perspective of the mineral industry, but also from the point of view of government, NGOs or local communities. There are case studies, publications in the range of sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, geo-ethics, proposals for new analytical methods (for example multi-criteria and others) or effective solutions. The improvement in social acceptance for the mineral industry may be achieved by further development of technological, organizational and scientific methods which minimizes mining influences on the environment and society developing. Modern approach to social issues associated with mineral activity includes also strategies of bilateral communication, mediation/negotiation, cooperation between stakeholders to a larger extent then in the past. However, it is the continuous need of extensive, in-depth social debate on mineral development projects in the European Union, both in energetic and non-energetic branch.

Keywords

EN

natural resources; mineral development; social licence; NIMBY

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Environmental & Socio-economic Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-34

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2015-06-27

Contributors

author

Jarosław Badera

• Department of Applied Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska Str. 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland

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DOI

10.1515/environ-2015-0029