Bridging the gap between the gold mining industry and the environmental and societal degradation through regulation : a qualitative study for identif…

2012

Master thesis in development management- University of Agder, 2012 This paper provides an identification and analysis of the contractual elements, i.e. requirements, for a hypothetical regulation of the South African gold mining industry. The identification of contractual elements is based on their probability in contributing in reversing trends of environmental and societal degradation deriving from gold mining. Second, this thesis explores the potential for such a regulation to achieve these objectives in South Africa. Except from a few initiatives of variable qualities, the gold mining industry at large is unregulated, and it is as such very much similar to the diamond industry prior to …