Developing a Pan American Hub for Environmentally and Socially Compatible Mining

 描述(申请人提供)：新兴经济体的快速经济发展正在导致拉丁美洲的社会环境冲突，在那里，很大一部分矿产商品都是开采的。受影响的社区、行业和政府之间的裂痕扰乱了金属的稳定供应，需要国际上准备好的劳动力和受影响地区的积极参与，以提供全面的解决方案，解决采矿能力、环境影响和社会问题的关键方面。我们认为，这些问题的解决方案是与来自不同学科的专业人员和社区成员进行国际合作，开发跨学科的阶梯变化解决方案。这项申请是关于环境和社会相容采矿主题的三次系列会议中的第二次。第一次会议题为“拉丁美洲兼容采矿会议：保护弱势群体和周围环境”，于2014年9月在墨西哥圣路易斯波托西举行。在会议上，来自九个泛美国家的代表创造了“兼容挖掘”一词，并将其定义为：不同利益相关者群体(社区、行业、政府、学术界等)的合作。参与采矿并受其影响，以最大限度地减少对环境和社会的负面影响。第二次会议计划在秘鲁利马举行，将由秘鲁天主教大学όLICA de秘鲁联合主办，暂定会议日期为2016年3月6日至9日。第二次会议的拟议标题是“为环境和社会兼容的采矿开发泛美枢纽”。第二次会议将有两个主要目标。一是全面发展并启动实施泛美枢纽。会议将有一天的时间专门讨论这一规划工作。第二个目标将是讨论和制定一个主题，重点是减轻社区对采矿产生的有毒污染物的暴露。这一努力的一个重要组成部分是赋予受影响社区权力并使其参与区域决策进程，使其成为知情的伙伴，以便采矿作业和管理机构充分处理环境健康问题。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Rapid economic development in emerging economies is causing socio-environmental conflicts in Latin America where a large fraction of the mineral commodities are mined. Rifts between affected communities, industry, and governments disrupt the steady supply of metals and will require an internationally prepared workforce and active participation of impacted regions to deliver holistic solutions that address key aspects of mining capacity, environmental impacts, and social issues. We believe the solution to these problems is to develop transdisciplinary step change solutions in an international collaboration with professionals and community members from distinct disciplines. This application is for the second conference in a series of three on the theme of environmentally and socially compatible mining. The first conference was entitled, "Latin American Conference on Compatible Mining: Protecting Vulnerable Populations and the Surrounding Environment" and took place in San Luis Potosi, Mexico in September 2014. At the conference delegates from nine Pan-American countries coined the term "compatible mining" and defined it as: the collaboration of the diverse stakeholder groups (community, industry, government, academia, etc.) involved in and impacted by mining to achieve mining with minimal negative environmental and social impacts. The second conference is planned for Lima, Peru and will be co-hosted by Pontificia Universidad Catόlica de Peru (PUCP) with tentative meeting dates of March 6-9, 2016. The proposed title for the second conference is, "Developing a Pan American Hub for Environmentally and Socially Compatible Mining." The second conference will have two major goals. The first is to fully develop and start to implement the Pan American Hub. One day of the conference will be devoted to this planning effort. The second goal will be to discuss and develop a theme focused on mitigating exposures of communities to toxic pollutants from mining. An important component of this effort is to empower and engage impacted communities as informed partners in regional decision making processes so that environmental health concerns are adequately addressed by mining operations and regulatory agencies.