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

Introduction 1. Mining in the era of climate politics and energy transition 2. From social license to societal acceptability through the lens of legitimacy - lessons of de- and re-legitimation in the case of Talvivaara-Terrafame in Finland 3. Four factors of the social license: A rejuvenation of the original quest 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 5. Collaborating beyond the concession: moving towards water stewardship in mining 6. Women miners and the blueprints for transitioning to sustainable, mining futures 7. Green energy's buried conflict: Latin America's mining paradox in the clean energy age 8. Reappraising innovation strategies at Africans small-scale mines: Past developments and future directions 9. Mining for sustainability, acceptance, and healthy work environments - A miner's perspective

About the author

Tuija Mononen is a Senior Researcher in Environmental Policy at the University of Eastern Finland, where she is head of the Research Centre for Socially and Environmentally Responsible Mining.
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
• Release: 21.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032329840
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232984-0
• No. of pages: 236
• 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; 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