Since the early 1990s, at least 45 initiatives have been mounted to improve the environmental and social performance of the mining industry across the world. Many changes in the formal legal and regulatory systems have also been introduced. However, no systematic approach has been adopted to...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Circular Economy research: From theory to practice -- Chapter 3: Conceptualization of Circular Economy 3.0: synthesizing the 10Rs hierarchy of value retention options -- Chapter 4: Working with new conceptualization of Circular Economy 3.0 -- Chapter 5: The...

This paper investigates the effect of institutional quality on sustainable development.Institutional quality is assumed to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in physical and natural capital. Since these two types of...

Mineral extraction alone is not sufficient to trigger sustainable development in developing countries. The mainstream paradigm on mining for development suggests that mineral-rich developing countries need to formulate a fiscal policy that can balance the need to maximize fiscal revenue while...