What you focus on matters on. That’s why it’s time to think beyond closure when planning for when mining ends.
A new paper in Resources Policy sets out the case – and proposes a new research agenda to provide the knowledge, resources and tools to move from closure to what’s next.
The agenda includes:
- considering what ‘post-mine transition’ means to different groups, and developing a shared understanding.
- facilitating a shift from thinking about site to regional scale.
- developing new ways to understand and incorporate values – what is most important to people at a given time and place – into planning and actions.
- bringing together engineering and biophysical dimensions with the social, cultural and economic aspects.
The paper was a collaborative effort, led by our Research Director Professor Tom Measham. It took around 12 months to draft, drawinig on input from 11 co-authors.
Publishing in respected journals is important to share what we have learnt across the global and national research community.
Read here: https://lnkd.in/gPsE_Wxt