Collaborative Integrated Planning for Sustainable Mining

加拿大自然采矿业面临着社区在土地获取、利益和环境风险方面的问题。该行业需要对如何才能为负责任的土地管理贡献更多切实的价值和保证产生强烈的理解。在充分注意住宿、权利和所有权的同时，还必须进行透明、合作和参与性的规划，使所有各方受益。 该提案中的两个项目中的第一个侧重于采矿业的领导力，试图描述人们对采用共享价值概念的态度，而不是目前的社会许可证经营方式。许多矿业社区，特别是原住民，都在偏远地区，往往处于贫困状态，健康和健康状况很差。共享价值提供了合作的手段，以解决采矿如何在不危及传统土著价值观的情况下，尊重和改善社区的健康和福祉，从而形成持久和有效的伙伴关系。该项目将进行定性研究，以确定加拿大行业领导者的前景及其为下一代矿业社区增加价值的战略。这名研究生将与行业领袖接触，并在昆士兰大学可持续矿业研究所与知名和相关的研究人员一起度过一段时间。该项目交付成果将成为将共同价值概念应用于可持续矿业发展的可信战略和框架。 第二个项目是围绕与西北部耶洛奈夫的Tlicho研究和培训研究所(TRTI)的现有关系而建立的。Tlicho民族社区偏远、规模较小，分散在几个重要的钻石矿周围。特利乔政府的使命是“维护和保护我们的土地、语言、文化和生活方式”…只要这片土地还在。“该项目将与TRTI、UofA和UVic合作。它将研究加拿大正在加速且普遍存在的现象，即修建通往北部的道路，以支持新的矿业发展。这些道路提供了通往原始地区的通道，它们的路线穿过土著领土，往往靠近偏远的小型土著社区。其中许多社区目前正在处理自己的重大社会和健康问题。关键问题是：这些社区面临的风险是什么，如何通过遵守采矿业可以作为最佳实践的准则来缓解这些风险？该项目旨在突出问题，并向行业、政府和社区提供信息。该项目将由两名硕士学生进行，他们将在一个跨学科的学术和社区小组监督的社区和矿山度过相当长的一段时间。

The Canadian mining industry is confronted with community issues over land access, benefits, and environmental risk. The industry needs to develop a strong understanding of how it can contribute more tangible value and assurance of responsible management of the land. Adequate attention to accommodation and rights and title must be accompanied also by transparent collaborative and participatory planning to the benefit of all parties. The first of two projects in this proposal focuses on mining industry leadership, attempting to characterize attitudes towards adopting the concept of Shared Value, beyond the current fashion of Social Licence to Operate. Many mining communities, particularly First Nations, are in remote locations, often in a state of poverty, and poor health and wellness. Shared value offers the means to collaboratively resolve how the mine can respectfully improve the health and wellbeing of the community without placing at risk traditional indigenous values, thus forming a durable and effective partnership. The project will conduct qualitative research to characterize the outlook of Canadian industry leaders and their strategies for adding value to the next generation of mining communities. The research student will spend time interfacing with industry leaders as well as a period spent at the Sustainable Mining Institute at the University of Queensland, alongside prominent and pertinent researchers. Project deliverables will be a credible strategy and framework for adapting the shared value concept into sustainable mine development. The second project is built around existing relationships with the Tlicho Research and Training Institute (TRTI ) in Yellowknife, NWT. The Tlicho nation communities are remote, small and dispersed around several significant diamond mines. The Tlicho government mission is “to preserve and protect our lands, language, culture and way of life … for as long as this land shall last.” The project will collaborate with TRTI, UofA and UVic. It will study the accelerating and widespread Canadian phenomenon of building roads to the north to support new mining development. These roads provide access to pristine areas and their routes traverse indigenous territory often in close proximity to small, remote indigenous communities. Many of these communities are currently dealing with their own significant social and health issues. Critical questions are: what are the risks to such communities and how can they be mitigated by adherence to a code that the mining industry can adapt as best practice? The project aims to highlight issues and to inform industry, government and communities. The project will be undertaken by a sequence of two Masters students who will spend an appreciable time in the communities and mines supervised by an interdisciplinary academic and community team.