Artigo
Sustainability index of mining: a case study in two companies
Registro en:
PEREIRA, A. A. S. et al. Sustainability index of mining: a case study in two companies. Journal of Management and Sustainability, [S.l.], v. 9, n. 2, 2019.
Autor
Pereira, Aline Aparecida Silva
Salgado, Eduardo Gomes
Mincato, Ronaldo Luiz
Alvarenga, Augusto Duarte
Borges, Luis Antônio Coimbra
Institución
Resumen
Since the inclusion of mineral exploration as an activity with sustainable potential in Agenda 21, the
development of metrics to evaluate and monitor the sector has been deemed necessary. Thus, to obtain accurate
information and to develop an evaluation index, a set of indicators based on the Triple Bottom Line was selected.
The methodology based on Gravity, Urgency and Trend (GUT Matrix), developed in 1981 by Kepner and
Tregoe, was used to evaluate the weights assigned to the indicators. The results were organized according to the
level of relevance of the environmental, social and economic criteria at levels 4, 3 and 2, respectively. A ranking
was created among the indicators of each criterion that gave rise to the proposed evaluation index. Through a
qualitative analysis, it was possible to validate the proposed index as to its efficiency, applicability, ability to
reverse the current situation of the sector and monitoring of the exploration activity, proposing improvements &
enabling the minimization of negative impacts. Finally, understand that it is possible to accept mining as a
sustainable activity