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Wind turbines and solar farms need a lot of raw materials. Australia can supply some, but we need to do it sustainably.
There are 60,000 abandoned mines in Australia. How do we restore them so that animals return? A researcher’s epic fieldwork project in WA’s Mid West could help provide the answers.
The law missed the opportunity to address misuse of mineral royalties and increase transparency as well as accountability in mineral royalty management.
Non-living nature such as rocks, landforms, soil and water form the Earth’s ‘geodiversity’ - a crucial part of the planet’s life support system.
We can use renewable energy to turn raw ore into higher-value processed metals, and that’s good for jobs and exports.
New research reveals remarkable evidence of a copper-mining bonanza in Wales that was so productive the metal reached France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
Government leadership is needed to manage the aquifer as a system for all, including environmental services, rather than for the powerful few.
The Trump administration is supporting new mines in Alaska and Minnesota that many opponents say could devastate sensitive areas around them.
Australia cannot distance itself from moral responsibility for emissions from exported fossil fuels.
Mineral-rich Mongolia is experiencing a mining boom, but its growth is creating distrust and conflict with herder communities.
Ghana’s quest to fill a significant infrastructure deficit has led to a barter deal with China that threatens one of West Africa’s most important environmental spaces.
A lesson from the 2012 massacre of mineworkers is the need for government to retain its role as primary governance agent, enforcing clear rules and ensuring the provision of public goods and services.
Contemporary mining disasters echo the devastation caused by Victoria’s gold fields. Victorians campaigned for some of the world’s first laws against industrial pollution.
Dasiqox Tribal Park offers a powerful example of what true reconciliation can mean for Canada when Indigenous peoples and their rights are respected and upheld.
The winter of 2018-19 claimed 200 reindeer in Svalbard, Norway, according to a recent census.
Artisanal and industrial mining have a different impact on local conflict in eastern Congo.
Abolishing the secretive World Bank Tribunal known as the ISDS won’t solve all of the problems of global economic governance. But it seems a very good place to start.
South Africa’s rural communities where mining licenses have been granted are often excluded from consultations and bear the brunt having their environment and livelihoods destroyed.
The 6-3 ruling challenges some common political assumptions about conservatives and liberals.
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, RMIT University
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Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, University of Delaware (USA); Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Andrew Dempster is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
