Environmental performance assessment for small mining operations

By Hermam Vargas Silva

This work is the result of a demand for environmental performance information for sand extraction by dredging. It aims to combine the development of a system of environmental indicators with a management practice that is more in line with modern times. Its general objective is to present a set of environmental performance assessment indicators for sand mining by dredging, drawing up guidelines that should be answered and/or observed, making up an environmental report or report on the situation. The writing presents a set of indicators in eight (8) areas: environmental policy; environmental management system; risk management system; legal compliance; product management; financial performance; environmental development and accounting criteria, which are presented in the form of items. The set of indicators applied reports on the environmental situation of companies. In the end, it establishes a hierarchy of environmental behaviour in four (4) classes (reactive, beginning to be implemented, being implemented and proactive), with the two mines studied being in the first class (reactive).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6208292743
• ISBN13: 9786208292744
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"