Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance.

ABSTRACT: Inability to ensure sustainable mining practice has brought the awareness that mining enterprises must be more pragmatic on achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in their operations. This research propose a new approach to select and prioritize relevant targets to the industry, which will allow companies, communities, and public authorities to establish a proper framework for environmental governance. The methodology includes appraisal of questionnaires, prioritization of targets following a thorough screening and quantitative assessment, and a bipartite network analysis approach. The results indicate that 55 out of the 169 targets were considered relevant for oil sands mining. The targets in SDGs 1, 12, and 16 were identified as having high or very high priority. There was hi

SUBMITTER: Omotehinse AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9666606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature