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Economic liberalisation, innovation, and technology transfer: opportunities for cleaner production in the minerals industry

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  • Alyson Warhurst
  • Gavin Bridge

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The liberalisation of investment regimes for mining over the past decade is encouraging an inflow of foreign investment for mining and mineral processing projects in developing and former centrally‐planned economies. This new investment is occurring at a time of technological change within the international mining industry as market and regulatory pressures lead the most dynamic firms to invest in the development or acquisition of new technologies and management practices. The effective transfer and assimilation of these technologies enable mining companies to combine gains in productivity with improvements in environmental management. Joint ventures and other strategic alliances between inwardly investing firms and the newly privatised or remnant state‐owned mining enterprises may provide an effective vehicle for the transfer of the techniques for more productive and cleaner operations. Specific examples of innovative process and remediation technologies are analysed and it is suggested that the ability of innovative technologies to improve competitiveness and sustain best‐practice environmental management in the recipient is linked to the transfer and effective acquisition of the capacity to manage the complex processes of technological and organisational change. The paper closes with some recommendations for further research directed towards a systematic examination of this hypothesis.

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  • Alyson Warhurst & Gavin Bridge, 1997. "Economic liberalisation, innovation, and technology transfer: opportunities for cleaner production in the minerals industry," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 21(1), pages 1-12, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:natres:v:21:y:1997:i:1:p:1-12
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.1997.tb00668.x
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    1. Warhurst, Alyson, 1991. "Metals biotechnology for developing countries and case studies from the Andean group, Chile and Canada," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 54-68, March.
    2. Craig B. Andrews, 1992. "Mineral sector technologies: policy implications for developing countries," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 16(3), pages 212-220, August.
    3. Alyson Warhurst, 1992. "Environmental management in mining and mineral processing in developing countries," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 16(1), pages 39-48, February.
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    2. Gavin Bridge, 1999. "Harnessing the bonanza: economic liberalization and capacity building in the mineral sector," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 23(1), pages 43-55, February.
    3. Gavin Bridge, 2001. "Resource Triumphalism: Postindustrial Narratives of Primary Commodity Production," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 33(12), pages 2149-2173, December.
    4. Alyson Warhurst & Ligia Noronha, 2000. "Corporate strategy and viable future land use: planning for closure from the outset of mining," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 24(2), pages 153-164, May.
    5. Richard Perkins, 2003. "Environmental leapfrogging in developing countries: A critical assessment and reconstruction," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 27(3), pages 177-188, August.
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