{"title":"审查所报告的公司对水资源管理的承诺:在矿山之外开展工作?","authors":"Jacqui Robertson , Claire Côte , Shona Stevens","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105193","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mining company commitments to ‘water stewardship’ are a relatively recent development to address corporate water issues. The peak mining industry body, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), has incorporated commitments to water stewardship in its established framework for members. The ICMM requires members to ‘implement water stewardship practices that provide for strong and transparent water governance’ (ICMM, 2023c, principle 6.2). The purpose of this paper is to explore the scope of corporate water stewardship activities that mining companies report and reflect on the role of mining companies in this context. This research has implications for mining companies in respect of appropriate corporate water stewardship activities. Broad findings of this study are that while ICMM members appear to embrace details around operational water management, reporting of off-tenure activity relating to collaboration and ‘providing water governance’ is more complex. This study finds that requiring companies to ‘provide water governance’ beyond the mine would seem to be problematic, in that not all companies actively demonstrate this, and it is somewhat at odds with the generally accepted role of government agencies in water governance. We recommend that the ICMM commitment to ‘provide strong and transparent water governance’ could be improved by rewording the commitment to be instead to ‘<em>contribute</em> to strong and transparent water governance’, or alternatively, for ICMM members to provide ‘strong and transparent <em>internal</em> water governance’.</p><p>ICMM. 2023c. 6 – Environmental Performance. <span>https://www.icmm.com/en-gb/our-principles/mining-principles/principle-6</span><svg><path></path></svg>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420724005609/pdfft?md5=38db610515366e5b33ca91a4c9545cb8&pid=1-s2.0-S0301420724005609-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Examining reported company commitments to water stewardship: Working beyond the mine?\",\"authors\":\"Jacqui Robertson , Claire Côte , Shona Stevens\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105193\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><p>Mining company commitments to ‘water stewardship’ are a relatively recent development to address corporate water issues. 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Examining reported company commitments to water stewardship: Working beyond the mine?
Mining company commitments to ‘water stewardship’ are a relatively recent development to address corporate water issues. The peak mining industry body, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), has incorporated commitments to water stewardship in its established framework for members. The ICMM requires members to ‘implement water stewardship practices that provide for strong and transparent water governance’ (ICMM, 2023c, principle 6.2). The purpose of this paper is to explore the scope of corporate water stewardship activities that mining companies report and reflect on the role of mining companies in this context. This research has implications for mining companies in respect of appropriate corporate water stewardship activities. Broad findings of this study are that while ICMM members appear to embrace details around operational water management, reporting of off-tenure activity relating to collaboration and ‘providing water governance’ is more complex. This study finds that requiring companies to ‘provide water governance’ beyond the mine would seem to be problematic, in that not all companies actively demonstrate this, and it is somewhat at odds with the generally accepted role of government agencies in water governance. We recommend that the ICMM commitment to ‘provide strong and transparent water governance’ could be improved by rewording the commitment to be instead to ‘contribute to strong and transparent water governance’, or alternatively, for ICMM members to provide ‘strong and transparent internal water governance’.
期刊介绍:
Resources Policy is an international journal focused on the economics and policy aspects of mineral and fossil fuel extraction, production, and utilization. It targets individuals in academia, government, and industry. The journal seeks original research submissions analyzing public policy, economics, social science, geography, and finance in the fields of mining, non-fuel minerals, energy minerals, fossil fuels, and metals. Mineral economics topics covered include mineral market analysis, price analysis, project evaluation, mining and sustainable development, mineral resource rents, resource curse, mineral wealth and corruption, mineral taxation and regulation, strategic minerals and their supply, and the impact of mineral development on local communities and indigenous populations. The journal specifically excludes papers with agriculture, forestry, or fisheries as their primary focus.