State Sustainability Strategy
Sustainable Development means:
•Profitability
(technical, financial, economic performance);
•Risk management;
•Mitigation of
environmental and social impacts;
•Creation of other
forms of capital - social capital, human capital, natural capital; and
•Ensuring some sort of equitable distribution of proceeds
occurs between public and private sectors
and at local and national levels
•In particular the emphasis has moved away from the more
narrow one of environmental factors to
one of ‘sustainable communities’ or ‘sustainable regions’. Jay D Hair
Secretary General
International Council on
Mining and Metals
October 2001