Abstract The extraction of raw materials raises several concerns, be it because it might cause huge environmental damage, because workers’ conditions are often worrying, or...
Tag: 2024
Matthew Grimshaw – 2024 – Choice is Yours: Red Pill or Blue Pill in Mineral Exploration
Abstract In the classic dilemma from The Matrix, taking the red pill reveals an unsettling truth, much like the revelation that most junior mineral exploration...
Carolina Sanchez – 2024 – Opportunities for countries with critical minerals: perspective from Argentina
Abstract Critical mineral resources are not sufficient to fully leverage the opportunities derived from the energy and digital transitions: attracting and fostering investment in these...
Murray Hitzman – 2024 – Critical Choices: Research and Future Workforce
Bio Murray W. Hitzman is Director of iCRAG, the SFI Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences, and a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor. Murray has...
Kate Taylor Smith – 2024 – Mining, monsters and mineral exploration: assessing social impacts through the lens of public risk perception
Abstract Mineral exploration is essential to provide the metals that we need for a low-carbon future. This exploration must be environmentally and socially responsible. Within...
Diego Francesco Marin – 2024 – Tackling the problem at the source: Towards an EU Sustainable Resource Management Law
Abstract There is an urgent need for sustainable resource management to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution – including...
Geertje Schuitema – 2024 – Mining, Ethics and Trust
Abstract Among the general public, the mining sector has a reputation of being unsustainable, involved in unethical practices, and sometimes the cause of local conflicts....
Guillaume de Brier – 2024 – Securing EU cobalt supply chain AND having a positive impact on mining-affected communities? Considering the potential of artisanal mining.
Abstract In the last decade, the EU adopted several regulations to secure its supply of critical raw materials and to ensure that human rights are...
Andy Reynolds – 2024 – The Power and Promise of Mental Models in a Changing World
Abstract Throughout history humankind has used models to impose order on chaos. When we adopt shared beliefs about how one thing leads to another, we...
Doris Hiam-Galvez – 2024 – Designing Sustainable Prosperity
Abstract Designing Sustainable Prosperity (DSP) is an approach that unlocks the potential of resource-rich regions by integrating economic diversification, social well-being, and environmental sustainability. A...