ABSTRACT
This is a book about industrial-scale mining and the approach by that sector in responding to a rapidly changing landscape of stakeholder expectations, regulation and everyday concepts of social responsibility. The authors engage with a set of contemporary questions reflecting concerns from across the stakeholder spectrum: What are the industry’s social responsibilities? How are these responsibilities defined and how are they articulated to the industry? What does the mining sector make of these responsibilities? What effect do these expectations have on the day-to-day operations of mining companies, and the activities of communities that host them? What happens when these expectations cannot be met by the industry?
