Sustainable Management in the Extractive Industry

Design, with other stakeholders, new sustainable management practices.

On this six-week course, you’ll discover the most pressing issues and practical challenges faced by decision makers within the extractive industry.

You’ll critically reflect on sustainability, discover best practice strategies, and learn how to respond to sustainability challenges faced by the mineral resource extraction sector.

Explain the environmental and societal impact of mineral extraction

With scientific materials and cutting-edge insights curated by renowned experts, you’ll investigate innovative approaches and solutions to the most pressing sustainability issues in the extractive sector.

Using the SUMEX framework, you’ll focus on five key action areas: permitting and licensing, health and safety, land use planning, environmental and socio-economic impact assessment, and reporting.

With this overview, you’ll be able to contextualise your knowledge within the areas of policy, business, and civil society, helping you analyse and discuss stakeholder needs.

Analyse environmental impact using tools such as the three pillars of sustainability

You’ll investigate sustainable extractive management processes through various conceptual lenses and methodological approaches such as the three pillars of sustainability, leverage points, and the Institutional Resource Regime.

With this knowledge, you’ll be able to apply and adapt sustainability frameworks to reflect different organisational needs.

Discover sustainable management best practice in policy and industry

Framing discussions within the European extractive sector, you’ll share best practice with fellow learners from around the world.

Combining shared experiences and expert insights, you’ll be able to identify successful approaches to sustainability and embed them in your own management practices.

This course is designed for leaders, managers and stakeholders in the mineral extractive industry who want to learn about the challenges, solutions and new developments in sustainability.

It will be especially useful for public administrators and industry practitioners wishing to understand and implement sustainability management at any stage of the mining life cycle from exploration to post-closure. This course may also benefit those interested in the importance of raw materials for a sustainable future and the challenges connected to them.

• Introductory week
• Welcome to the course
• The European perspective
• The many facets of sustainability
• Assignment
• Take away messages and recap
• Impact Assessment
• Introduction to Impact Assessment
• Expert insights
• Highlighting real-life practices
• Assignment
• Take away messages and recap
• Land use planning
• Introduction to Land use planning
• Expert insights
• Highlighting real-life practices
• Assignment
• Take-away messages and recap
• Health and Safety
• Introduction to Health and Safety
• Expert insights
• Highlighting real life examples
• Assignment
• Take away messages and recap
• Permitting
• Introduction to Permitting
• Expert insights
• Highlighting real life examples
• Assignment
• Take away messages and recap
• Reporting
• Introduction to Reporting
• Expert insights
• Highlighting real life examples
• Assignment
• Take away messages and recap
• End of course synthesis