TY - JOUR AU - Mota, José Aroudo AU - Maneschy, Maria Cristina AU - Souza-Filho, Pedro W. M. AU - Navarro Torres, Vidal F. AU - Siqueira, José Oswaldo AU - Filipe dos Santos, Jorge AU - Matlaba, Valente PY - 2017/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A new proposal for sustainability indicators in mining JF - Sustainability in Debate JA - SustDeb VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.18472/SustDeb.v8n2.2017.21795 UR - https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sust/article/view/16644 SP - 15 - 29 AB - <p>The mineral industry has commitments towards sustainability that are urgent and permanent. The sector<br>represents a rich field of analysis for the encounter of economic and environmental rationalities. Due<br>to the scale of activities and socio-environmental impacts, and their operation under heavy pressures<br>from the global commodities markets, it is important to understand the recent evolution of this sector. In<br>parallel, building sustainability indicators to monitor regions with large mines is a growing imperative.<br>This article discusses various features of sustainable development and analyzes existing categories of<br>sustainability indicators for mining, based on recent literature. It also proposes sustainability indicators<br>for industrial mining, in the environmental, economic and social spheres, adaptable to tropical regions,<br>including the Carajás Mineral Province, southeast of Pará State (Amazon, Brazil).</p> ER -