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Corporate strategy and viable future land use: planning for closure from the outset of mining

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  • Alyson Warhurst
  • Ligia Noronha

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This paper provides an overview of the environmental impact of mining on viable future land use and underlines the imperative of improved environmental management and closure planning. It argues that pollution prevention, through planning for closure, can lead to cost‐effective strategies for sustainable minerals development and viable future land use. This seems to be most true for greenfield sites since, generally, the earlier closure planning and pollution prevention is built into a project, the more cost‐effective and environmentally benign closure will be. Further, for greenfield sites, pollution prevention techniques can be employed from the outset, at the stages of exploration and mine development, and then monitored and improved through the operation stage to closure, and can be kept in place to manage future land use. The paper discusses how global changes in the industry, following the liberalisation of investment regimes, and mergers and strategic alliances between key firms, has, by virtue of the diffusion of new technology, led to further opportunities to prevent pollution and optimise future land use through planning for closure from the outset. The objectives and components of closure plans are also reviewed as the paper draws on case studies to highlight some of the possible constraints and challenges to pollution prevention that may be faced at the level of both public policy and corporate strategy. The article concludes by suggesting a forward‐looking approach to integrated environmental management and viable future land‐use planning based on a dynamic model for environmental management.

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  • 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.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:natres:v:24:y:2000:i:2:p:153-164
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2000.tb00939.x
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    1. 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.
    2. 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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