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NEW REPORT: Luke Danielson and Caroline Digby, Architecture for Change: An Account of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project History, July 2006, Global Public Policy Insitute.

This new report is the output of the MMSD History Project, which was directed by the Global Public Policy Institute. The project aimed to capture the experiences of several key figures who led the MMSD Project. The idea was to secure their personal recollections of how the MMSD process was launched and how it progressed through its more than two years of existence. The exercise provided former key staffers of the MMSD Project with an opportunity to present their subjective history of the key challenges they encountered in the MMSD Project and how these problems were resolved.

The report, authored by Luke Danielson, former MMSD Project Director, and Caroline Digby, former MMSD Research Director, is a behind-the-scenes look at not only the MMSD project, but also the trials, tribulations and outcome of a research process in general.

You can find a summary of the project on the GPPI website, at: http://www.globalpublicpolicy.net/index.php?id=241.

Download a full copy of the report (PDF file 540k) | Download the appendices (PDF file 380k)

MMSD Report, Breaking New Ground, available online and in print
Abriendo Brecha también disponible en español
Executive Summaries: English, Español, Français, Português

All hardcopies of Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development include the MMSD CD-ROM, which contains an e-book of the report (automatically indexed and cross-referenced with full search facilities), MMSD regional and national reports, commissioned research and more.
Regional Reports The final reports from MMSD Australia, MMSD North America, MMSD South America and MMSD Southern Africa are available in electronic format.   MMSD Project Signs Off MMSD ended with the completion of Breaking New Ground. To read a sign-off message from MMSD Project Coordinator Richard Sandbrook click here.		Project Follow-up Reports The four MMSD project follow-up reports are now available online and in print: Finding the Way Forward: how could voluntary action move mining towards sustainable development? Artisanal and Small-scale Mining: Challenges and Opportunities Room to Manoeuvre? Mining, biodiversity and protected areas Finding Common Ground: Indigenous Peoples and their Association with the Mining Sector

The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD) was an independent two-year project of research and consultation seeking to understand how the mining and minerals sector can contribute to the global transition to sustainable development. MMSD was a project of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

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