Assessment of personal preferences concerning the social impacts of mining with choice experiment method
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Assessment of personal preferences concerning the social impacts of mining with choice experiment method Somaye Narrei 1 & Majid Ataee-pour 2 Received: 25 June 2019 / Accepted: 1 December 2019 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Abstract The creation of jobs is an important social impact of mining. In addition, mining can have constructive social impacts such as welfare and improvement in the livelihoods of people in a region. Negative impacts may include the creation of social anomalies and the failure of gender balance. There have been many studies on social impacts of mining. But little research has been done on people’s preferences for these effects, which is one of the principles of sustainable development. In this paper, the “choice experiment” technique has been used for assessment of personal preferences in concerning the social impacts of mining. For this purpose, a questionnaire was prepared and filled by the individuals. By assuming the homogeneity of the preferences, the conditional logit model was estimated by the STATA software. Importance and value of social attributes of mining were achieved according to the coefficients and willingness to pay for the attributes. Furthermore, the results suggested that the number of jobs and the satisfaction of livelihood status are the strongest values held by the respondents, and that they show a willingness to work longer under unsuitable conditions in order to acquire necessary skills, provided that social anomalies do not ensue in their place of residence. Keywords Mining . Social impacts . Choice experiment . Conditional logit
Introduction Sustainable mining is a term that refers to carrying out mining projects in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. It becomes feasible when the project is economically profitable, technically appropriate, and environmentally socially responsive. In recent years, several studies have dealt with the sustainable development in mining. Less attention has been paid to social criterion of mining in comparison with other two criteria. A review of social criterion of mining has been reported recently. The social impacts of mining can be divided into six general categories (Mancini and Sala 2018): economy, income, and security; employment and education;
* Majid Ataee-pour [email protected] Somaye Narrei [email protected] 1
Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
land use and territorial aspects; demography; environment, health, and safety; human rights. Given the multifaceted effects of mining on the community, mine design would not be optimal without these effects. As long as the society is one of the three principles of sustainable development, this will lead to unsustainable mining. The question that arises is how the social impact of mining can be considered in mining design? The quantification and valuation of how sustainability can be indicated within mi
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