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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Law and Governance of Mining and Minerals: A Global Perspective by Ana Elizabeth Bastida
Legal regimes for mining are experiencing enormous changes in the context of globalisation and against a backdrop of widespread expectation that mining should minimise its sustainability footprint and contribute to broad-based development. Traditionally the focus of legal regimes for mining was on defining property rights to facilitate extraction; today by contrast the key challenge is to establish a basis for sustainable governance. What this means is that legal regimes for mining are expected to embody key principles and cooperative rules of engagement for integrated management that are effective transparent accountable and inclusive as well as being oriented towards sustainable development. This book seeks to explore these issues and the challenges facing those charged with designing and enforcing agreements made in an ever-more complex mining environment.