Authors :
Kaepae Ken Ail; Gabriel Arpa
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 4 - April
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8281676
Abstract :
Attaining broad-based economic and social
developments associated with mining activities are
complex to achieve since mining companies take
ownership of social responsibility while all layers of
government become complacent and social inclusion
entices direct involvement of landowners in decisionmaking. To reduce community boycott and social crisis,
mining companies and the Government of Papua New
Guinea (GoPNG) adopted a preferential mode of social
inclusion to redistribute the benefit streams associated
with a mining operation. However, the preferential
treatment of landowner communities inhibits achieving
the social sustainability goals. There is no clear
framework within which the social preferential mode of
benefit redistribution could work in mobilizing the
cultural and land-based endowments. In recognising the
issue, employing a bottom-up approach to planning of
physical infrastructure and social institutions and
integrating them into government's existing service
delivery mechanisms could achieve broad-based
sustainable livelihoods in the post-mine era. The
qualitative data were collected from interviews of
selected stakeholders from the Tipini and Porgera
special mining lease (SML) communities to predict the
scenarios that could emerge in the post-mine period. The
strategies discussed could guide the stakeholders to
achieve social sustainability to occur during the
remaining life of the Porgera mine.
Keywords :
Social Sustainability, Social Inclusion, Preferential Mode of Benefit Redistribution, Strategic Planning, Asset Repurposing, Post-Mine Period.
Attaining broad-based economic and social
developments associated with mining activities are
complex to achieve since mining companies take
ownership of social responsibility while all layers of
government become complacent and social inclusion
entices direct involvement of landowners in decisionmaking. To reduce community boycott and social crisis,
mining companies and the Government of Papua New
Guinea (GoPNG) adopted a preferential mode of social
inclusion to redistribute the benefit streams associated
with a mining operation. However, the preferential
treatment of landowner communities inhibits achieving
the social sustainability goals. There is no clear
framework within which the social preferential mode of
benefit redistribution could work in mobilizing the
cultural and land-based endowments. In recognising the
issue, employing a bottom-up approach to planning of
physical infrastructure and social institutions and
integrating them into government's existing service
delivery mechanisms could achieve broad-based
sustainable livelihoods in the post-mine era. The
qualitative data were collected from interviews of
selected stakeholders from the Tipini and Porgera
special mining lease (SML) communities to predict the
scenarios that could emerge in the post-mine period. The
strategies discussed could guide the stakeholders to
achieve social sustainability to occur during the
remaining life of the Porgera mine.
Keywords :
Social Sustainability, Social Inclusion, Preferential Mode of Benefit Redistribution, Strategic Planning, Asset Repurposing, Post-Mine Period.
