Europe's mining innovation trends and their contribution to the sustainable development goals: Blind spots and strong points

Endl, Andreas; Tost, Michael; Hitch, Michael; Moser, Peter; Feiel, Susanne

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101440

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“…All the studies adopt a qualitative methodology to investigate the industry role. Whereas Endl, Tost, Hitch, Moser, and Feiel (2019) and Said and Chuenpagdee (2019) use a conceptual approach, Moomen et al (2019) review prior literature. Monteiro, da Silva, and Moita Neto (2019) and Selmier and Newenham‐Kahindi (2017) investigate American and African industry contexts through onsite visits.…”

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“…Whereas Endl, Tost, Hitch, Moser, and Feiel (2019) and Said and Chuenpagdee 2019 Table 12 shows the papers debating the relation between CSR and SDGs (8.51%). Grover, Kar, and Ilavarasan (2019) and Poddar, Narula, and Zutshi (2019) analyze the relation quantitatively through the collection of secondary data.…”

Section: Entrepreneurship To Pursue Sdgs and The Industry Role In Amentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

2020

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The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an urgent call for action by all countries that provide a global framework for achieving global development while balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability. SDGs are addressed to all actors in society, but both academia and professional recognize the particular importance of businesses. However, research is still needed to understand the role of companies as sustainable development agents. Relying on Scopus database consultation, the current research adopts an interdisciplinary systematic literature review to investigate, analyze, and present state-of-the-art academic literature on the role of businesses in tackling SDGs. The final sample comprises 101 papers published between 2015 and 2020. It provides evidence that the main topics discussed by scholars are related to aspects of strategy execution. Recognizing different streams that are currently unexplored-despite strictly related to strategic business activities and to the sustainable development as a whole-the study provides many insights for future research on business and SDGs.

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Section: Entrepreneurship To Pursue Sdgs and The Industry Role In Amentioning

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Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

2020

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“…Few studies have explored the sustainability challenges of the mining sector within Europe, as evident in Table 1. Endl et al [39] explored European mining innovation's contribution to the SDGs, including autonomous equipment and operations, better mine design, enhanced transparency and traceability, renewable energy solutions, and occupational safety. Ranӓngen and Zobel [38], in a case study of the Swedish mining company Boliden AB, revealed that implementation of international standards does not lead to increased use of renewable energy or result in greenhouse gas emission reductions.…”

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Drivers of sustainability practices and contributions to sustainable development evident in sustainability reports of European mining companies

2021

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Mining activities cause negative environmental impacts and social conflicts but also provide economic benefits to communities and secure the minerals necessary for low-carbon technology. The aim of this multiple case study is to analyze, compare and critically evaluate sustainability reports of 10 European mining companies for the 2016–2018 period to determine the drivers for implementation of sustainability practices and their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The findings suggest that European mining companies act under pressures from international initiatives and industry associations, the European Union, governments, stakeholders, and maintaining social license to operate. The companies report on the core subjects of corporate governance, employees, the environment, stakeholders’ engagement and occupational health and safety. Positive trends were observed in stakeholders’ engagement and health and safety, while air emissions and water and energy usage increased for most companies. Furthermore, there was an absence of improvement in gender diversity, utilization of renewable energy, and waste recycling. Even though all analyzed companies mentioned SDGs in the reports, the reports lacked a comprehensive explanation of mining activities’ contribution to the SDGs. This study addresses a gap in the existing literature on the European mining context of sustainable development and SDGs relevant for researchers, policymakers, and other impacted stakeholders and adds new theoretical knowledge on the external drivers of CSR activities based on institutional theory.

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“…Therefore, land reclamation and land management after the closure of the mine will be an important factor. This problem is highlighted in many publications referring to mining and its impact on SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) adopted in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly in the form of a universal, integrated and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of 17 SDG and 169 associated targets [3] [11]. Factors resulting from geological conditions, such as the ratio of overburden to the amount of coal in the seams that are exploited also translate directly into this category and into the indicators related to the energy necessary to remove the overburden.…”

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Life Cycle Assessment of opencast lignite mining

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Kulczycka

2020

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The life cycle phase of fossil fuel extraction is mainly considered in the LCA when evaluating the energy production processes. It is then only one of many unit processes, which contribute to the blurring of mining-relevant results. There are few items in the literature focusing exclusively on the lignite mining phase and analysing the specific mining conditions and associated environmental impacts. The article focuses on the LCA of lignite mining pro-cesses on the basis of data coming from a Polish mine. The technology for opencast lignite mining is noted for its high production efficiency, high level of recovery and lower risk as regards the safety of workers when compared with underground mining systems. However, the need to remove large amounts of overburden to uncover the deposit contributes to a much greater degradation of the landscape. Analysing the results obtained, several key (hot spot) elements of the lignite mining operations were distinguished for modelling the environmental impact, i.e.: calorific value, the amount of electricity consumption, the manner in which waste and overburden are managed. As a result there is a high sensitivity of the final indicator to changes in these impacts.

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Europe's mining innovation trends and their contribution to the sustainable development goals: Blind spots and strong points

Cited by 65 publications

References 48 publications

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Sustainable development goals and the strategic role of business: A systematic literature review

Drivers of sustainability practices and contributions to sustainable development evident in sustainability reports of European mining companies

Life Cycle Assessment of opencast lignite mining

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