Special Issue "Sustainability in Mining"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Geography and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Andreas Ciroth
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Guest Editor
GreenDelta GmbH, 14057 Berlin, Germany
Interests: life cycle assessment; sustainability; data quality; environmental modeling
Ms. Claudia Di Noi
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Co-Guest Editor
GreenDelta GmbH, 14057 Berlin, Germany
Interests: sustainability; LCA; environment; life cycle thinking; society and environment

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

For thousands of years, resources obtained from mining have been essential for a functioning and prospering human economy, and today, they still are. Mining provides jobs, and potential welfare, to benefit regions and economies. On the other side, mining activities have shaped and modified landscapes, causing environmental and social impacts, up to a total devastation of natural, local environments.

Recent years have seen tremendous, manifold efforts to make mining more sustainable, sometimes even with a stated goal of achieving a “sustainable mining”, a combination of sustainability and mining activities, which may appear as an oxymoron, a combination of two aspects that do not consistently fit together—at least, this combination may be very challenging.

Sustainability, therefore, will launch a Special Issue on environmental sustainability in mining. Dr. Andreas Ciroth and Claudia Di Noi serve as Guest Editors.

The Special Issue focuses on three points:

  1. The ways to determine the environmental and sustainability impact of mining, in a fair, sufficiently comprehensive, and efficient way;
  2. The ways to make mining more sustainable, with emphasis on environmental impacts, illustrated with practical cases or theory;
  3. The ways, and good and not so good practices, to communicate information about environmental and other sustainability impacts, of mining activities, to local communities, and other stakeholders.

Contributions are welcome!

Dr. Andreas Ciroth
Guest Editor

Ms. Claudia Di Noi
Co-Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • life cycle
  • measuring sustainability
  • mining activities
  • communication

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Assessing Peruvian University Students’ Preferences for Labor Conditions in Mining Site
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9648; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179648 (registering DOI) - 27 Aug 2021
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The mining industry is one of the biggest industries and has a strong impact in Peru. Despite the mining industry’s importance, it faces labor shortages and environmental risks. For these situations, mining students are important sources of workers not only as labor forces [...] Read more.
The mining industry is one of the biggest industries and has a strong impact in Peru. Despite the mining industry’s importance, it faces labor shortages and environmental risks. For these situations, mining students are important sources of workers not only as labor forces but also as skilled workers who can contribute to solving the environmental issues of mining companies. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to assess Peruvian university mining students’ preferences for labor conditions in mining sites using a discrete choice experiment in order to promote efficient improvements in labor conditions in mining sites that contribute to stable employment and address environmental concerns. The number of respondents was 222 in two Peruvian universities, including males and females aged 16–35 years. The analysis’s findings indicate that labor conditions at mining sites can be optimized by adjusting them to specific individual characteristics of potential mining workers, resulting in a more efficient working environment for companies and workers. Full article
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