Gold Matters: Co-labouring to visualize transformation in mining worlds: Stories of transformations to sustainability

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Abstract

Climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressures have reached unprecedented levels worldwide. Achieving sustainability will depend on rapid and fundamental transformations in the ways we organize our societies and interact with the natural environment.

Outcomes at a glance
- Miners have co-created knowledge to portray their mining work and lives in nuanced ways
- Mining stakeholders, including policy makers, have gained greater insight into artisanal and small-scale gold mining, including futures in mining
- Mining practitioners have learned from insights produced by the project on sustainability issues, health issues, gender and mining futures
- The public has gained greater insight into artisanal and small-scale gold mining through the use of exhibitions, social media, and media interviews
- The research has generated greater understanding of issues of sustainability transformations in relation to artisanal and small-scale gold mining
Original languageEnglish
PublisherInternational Science Council
Media of outputOnline
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jan 2023

Funding

International Science Council

Keywords

  • transformation to sustainability
  • small scale gold mining
  • collaborative research

VU Research Profile

  • Science for Sustainability

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