@ARTICLE{oei_3301,
ota_publtyp = {Artikel},
oei_publtyp = {Artikel},
title = {The environmental criticality of primary raw materials – A new methodology to assess global environmental hazard potentials of minerals and metals from mining},
author = {Andreas Manhart and R. Vogt and M. Priester and Günter Dehoust and A. Auberger and Markus Blepp and Peter Dolega and C. Kämper and J. Giegrich and G. Schmidt and Jan Kosmol},
year = {2018},
language = {en},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-018-0160-0},
abstract = {Environmental aspects are more and more relevant for raw material  policy-making and responsible sourcing strategies. This trend is partly  based on growing public awareness of problems and impacts associated  with extraction and processing of ores and minerals. Disaster events  such as the tailing dam failures in Kolontár (Hungary, October 2010) and  Bento Rodriguez (Brazil, November 2015) quite frequently highlight the  fact that many mining and processing practices are associated with  substantial environmental impacts and risks for the local and even  regional environments. However, there is also increasing recognition  that the rather devastating environmental performance of many past and  current mining projects is a major reason for communities around the  world to oppose both the development of new and the expansion of  existing mines. Although mining companies constantly have to increase  their efforts to secure the social license to operate, many scholars  already point out that both environmental impacts and associated social  and political reactions are emerging as a decisive factor determining  current and future raw material supply. In light of these concerns, raw  material policy-making requires solid information on environmental hot  spots in mining, as well as on raw materials of particular concern.  Whereas indicators and information systems are already well developed  for geological, technical, structural, political, regulatory, and  economic supply risks, there is currently no holistic method and  information system for environmental concerns associated with the mining  of raw materials. Although life cycle assessment can provide  methodological support for various environmental aspects, it has  substantial weaknesses in the fields of ecosystem degradation, impacts  on fresh- and groundwater resources, and hazard potentials from episodic  disaster events. This paper presents a methodology that aims to fill  this gap. Our proposed method provides a system of 11 indicators  allowing the identification of raw material-specific environmental hot  spots and rankings of raw materials. Although the indicator system is  qualitative in nature, its composition and aggregation cover the most  relevant environmental concerns arising from mining and allow  prioritizing of raw materials from a global environmental perspective.},
keywords = {Inter-divisional}
}