Future Transitions in the Mining Industry - Challenges, Controversies and Responses

This book focuses on mining and the challenges for this industry as it transitions and evolves as the demand for products and responsible and sustainable mining ever increases. It will appeal to scholars, students, and professionals in mining, extractive industries, and natural resource management.

List of contents

Contents
List of figures vii
List of maps vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Introduction 1
LASSE PELTONEN AND TUIJA MONONEN
1 Mining in the era of climate politics and energy transition 9
RAUNO SAIRINEN AND DANIEL HOLM
2 From social licence to societal acceptability through the lens of legitimacy: Lessons of de- and relegitimation in the case of Talvivaara- Terrafame in Finland 31
LASSE PELTONEN
3 Four factors of the social licence: A rejuvenation of the original quest 53
ROBERT G. BOUTILIER AND IAN THOMSON
4 The role of citizen attitudes towards uranium in the energy transition: Lay normativity and the opposition and support for uranium mining in three Finnish regions 75
TUIJA JARTTI
5 Collaborating beyond the concession: Moving towards water stewardship in mining 99
JUHA M. KOTILAINEN AND JOCELYN FRASER
6 Women miners and the blueprints for transitioning to sustainable mining futures 118
DORIS BUSS AND BLAIR RUTHERFORD
7 Green energy's buried conflict: Latin America's mining paradox in the clean energy age 135
RAJIV MAHER, DIEGO GÁLVEZ PINO AND JULIETA GODFRID
8 Reappraising innovation strategies at African small- scale mines: Past developments and future directions 154
EKOW BARTELS AND GAVIN HILSON
9 Mining for sustainability, acceptance and healthy work environments: A miner's perspective 188
JOEL LÖÖW, LENA ABRAHAMSSON, ERIK LUND, ERIK SUNDSTRÖM AND JAN JOHANSSON
Index 203

About the author

Tuija Mononen is University Researcher with title of docent in Environmental Policy at the University of Eastern Finland, where she is Head of the Research Center for Mining, Minerals, and Society (CEMMS).
Lasse Peltonen is Professor of Environmental Governance and Conflict Resolution at the University of Eastern Finland.

Product details

• Authors: Tuija Peltonen Mononen
• Assisted by: Tuija Mononen (Editor), Lasse Peltonen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032329840
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232984-0
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, NATURE / Natural Resources, NATURE / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, Environmental Management, Science / Environmental Science, Human Geography, Development Studies, Mining Industry, Agribusiness and primary industries, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes