BIO:
Madhu Ardhanari is currently a QUEX PhD researcher at the Universities of Exeter (Camborne School of Mines) and Queensland. Her research is around building ore-sand sustainability – where ore-sand is a mineral co-product encouraging total resource use from extractive value chains as part of a low-carbon transition. A sustainability practitioner, she has nine years of experience coaching businesses and facilitating multi-stakeholder collaborations towards systemic leadership in the face of climate breakdown and social inequalities.
She is a Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellow and an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity. She received the Environment Special Award in the 2020 Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Awards for her work around land reclamation and resource inequalities in Southeast Asia.
ABSTRACT:
Amidst a growing climate crisis and social inequality, there is a greater need to get collaboration right. We are seeing a growth of collaborative projects, some meaningful and some that are not shifting the needle. At the same time, there is a rise in collaboration fatigue. Without a way to navigate questions of justice, the mining sector will continue to face significant challenges in its social licence to operate. There is a need for both new models of collaboration and creating new roles towards a future of mineral security and intergenerational equity. Using a social earth science lens, this talk will reflect on what facilitating meaningful collaboration amidst tensions in pathways forward might look like in mineral coproduction, using ore-sand coproduction from lithium in Cornwall as a case study.
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