Economic Principles of Mining Region Sustainable Development

Principles of Sustainable Development

Basic Principles of Sustainable Development

This chapter introduces the concept of sustainable development. We begin by disaggregating the components of the concept and showing how each developed through the course of its earlier history. The goals expressed or implied by the sustainable development are multidimensional, raising the issue of how to balance objectives and how to judge success or failure. Though it may be impossible to pos...

Assessing environmental and economic indicators of sustainable development in mining-extractive cities (A case study of Asaluyeh, Iran)

Among various types of cities, mining cities have special features including a high concentration of industrial activities associated with the exploration, extraction, refining, processing and export of groundwater resources, the risk of reduction and termination of non-renewable resources, high degree of environmental pollution, high production of domestic and industrial waste and social issue...

An environmental-economic measure of sustainable development

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We argue that the maximin value of utility measures what is sustainable and provides the limit to growth. ...

Local natural resource curse and sustainable socio-economic development in a Russian mining community of Kovdor

Natural resource extraction forms the backbone of the Russian economy and characterizes the majority of regions and communities in the Russian North. The long-term socio-economic sustainability of natural resource extraction in resource abundant countries has been questioned and discussed in various social sciences with the resource curse theory, which, however, is understudied on the local lev...