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dc.contributor.authorOssa-Moreno, Juan
dc.contributor.authorMcIntyra, Neil
dc.contributor.authorAli, Saleem
dc.contributor.authorSmarts, James CR
dc.contributor.authorRivera, Diego
dc.contributor.authorLall, Upmanu
dc.contributor.authorKeir, Greg
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-04T12:38:55Z
dc.date.available2019-07-04T12:38:55Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0921-8009
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.11.010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/380005
dc.description.abstractJoint research between economists and hydrologists increasingly contributes to optimising the economic value gained from water, while safeguarding its social and environmental values. The application of hydro-economic analysis to mining regions, however, is limited. This paper examines why this is the case and how to confront it. The paper focuses on identifying and describing features of large-scale mines and mine regions that are challenging to analyse such as: magnitude of capital involved, time-scale and remoteness of projects, inherent environmental risks, and strong negative perceptions about mining's impacts on water. These characteristics may limit the applicability of established hydro-economic concepts and methods, thus risk-based metrics are discussed as complementary tools. We also contend that further research and development in water-related ecosystem services should be a priority, in order to better quantify trade-offs between the economic benefits of water use by mining and competing users, including environmental flows. Case studies of mining regions in Chile, Madagascar and Sweden are summarised to illustrate some of the issues raised. While data limitations are an obstacle, new and extended case studies are required to explore how the challenges may be addressed.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom368
dc.relation.ispartofpageto379
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEcological Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume145
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode380199
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3899
dc.titleThe Hydro-economics of Mining
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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gro.rights.copyright© 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorSmart, Jim C.


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