Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes
Minerals and metals are fundamentally incredibly important to societies all over the world. The activities required to extract minerals, however, often have negative impacts on forest landscapes and habitats. Forest health is not only about defores...
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okr-10986-320262021-05-25T09:25:28Z Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes World Bank Group ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT DEFORESTATION MINING FOREST CONSERVATION ARTISANAL MINING NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT Minerals and metals are fundamentally incredibly important to societies all over the world. The activities required to extract minerals, however, often have negative impacts on forest landscapes and habitats. Forest health is not only about deforestation; mining has been found to produce severe impacts on water and soil that can indirectly impact forest health and its ecological integrity. Moreover, impacts of mining can become significant when multiple instances of mining activities happen at the same location simultaneously, as was found in the Indonesian case studies. Therefore, there is still the need to identify and attempt to reduce the impacts of mining even in a landscape dominated by activities like agriculture and forestry. Artisanal mining is typified as formal, informal, or illegal mining operations with predominantly rudimentary technologies in the exploration and extraction by individuals or large groups of people. Small-scale mining operations can also be mechanized, or semi-mechanized, and or have a greater degree of capitalization than artisanal mining. The World Bank’s extractive industries in forest landscapes program seeks to address these challenges by promoting forest-smart extractive investments to ensure that investments in the extractives sector do not erode forest capital and instead generate positive forest outcomes. The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) study and the parallel study on large-scale mining (LSM) share the overarching objective of supporting the World Bank’s efforts to help client countries ensure that resource extraction from forested areas serves as a force for poverty reduction and sustainable development while respecting the environment and the needs of local communities. In order to achieve a forest-smart ASM sector, adopting an integrated approach is recommended. 2019-07-02T20:31:09Z 2019-07-02T20:31:09Z 2019-04-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/620501560322517491/Forest-Smart-Mining-Identifying-Good-and-Bad-Practices-and-Policy-Responses-for-Artisanal-and-Small-Scale-Mining-in-Forest-Landscapes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32026 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study Economic & Sector Work |
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT DEFORESTATION MINING FOREST CONSERVATION ARTISANAL MINING NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT World Bank Group Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes |
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Minerals and metals are fundamentally
incredibly important to societies all over the world. The
activities required to extract minerals, however, often have
negative impacts on forest landscapes and habitats. Forest
health is not only about deforestation; mining has been
found to produce severe impacts on water and soil that can
indirectly impact forest health and its ecological
integrity. Moreover, impacts of mining can become
significant when multiple instances of mining activities
happen at the same location simultaneously, as was found in
the Indonesian case studies. Therefore, there is still the
need to identify and attempt to reduce the impacts of mining
even in a landscape dominated by activities like agriculture
and forestry. Artisanal mining is typified as formal,
informal, or illegal mining operations with predominantly
rudimentary technologies in the exploration and extraction
by individuals or large groups of people. Small-scale mining
operations can also be mechanized, or semi-mechanized, and
or have a greater degree of capitalization than artisanal
mining. The World Bank’s extractive industries in forest
landscapes program seeks to address these challenges by
promoting forest-smart extractive investments to ensure that
investments in the extractives sector do not erode forest
capital and instead generate positive forest outcomes. The
artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) study and the
parallel study on large-scale mining (LSM) share the
overarching objective of supporting the World Bank’s efforts
to help client countries ensure that resource extraction
from forested areas serves as a force for poverty reduction
and sustainable development while respecting the environment
and the needs of local communities. In order to achieve a
forest-smart ASM sector, adopting an integrated approach is recommended. |
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Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes |
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Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes |
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Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes |
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Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes |
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Forest-Smart Mining : Identifying Good and Bad Practices and Policy Responses for Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Forest Landscapes |
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forest-smart mining : identifying good and bad practices and policy responses for artisanal and small-scale mining in forest landscapes |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/620501560322517491/Forest-Smart-Mining-Identifying-Good-and-Bad-Practices-and-Policy-Responses-for-Artisanal-and-Small-Scale-Mining-in-Forest-Landscapes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32026 |
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