MMSD – further reports
Presenting the further reports of the IIED/WBCSD project Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) – the most ambitious study yet undertaken on the role of minerals in sustainable development.
Project documents
Documents are grouped together in the links below, or you can search our Publications Library. Please contact us if you can't find what you are looking for. All project publications are available for free download.
MMSD – workshops, meetings and presentations
MMSD – Assurance Group and project information
MMSD – main project page
MMSD history project
Architecture for change: an account of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development project history, Luke Danielson and Caroline Digby (July 2006), Global Public Policy Insitute
In this report former key staffers of the MMSD project present their subjective history of the key challenges they encountered, how they were resolved.
Project follow-up reports
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
MMSD project signs off
MMSD ended with the completion of the report 'Breaking New Ground'.
Read a sign-off message from MMSD project coordinator Richard Sandbrook
Final regional reports
Interim reports
Mining and minerals sustainability survey 2001
MMSD: the results of a scoping project for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
MMSD: common terms of reference for regional/country studies on artisanal and small-scale mining
MMSD: a challenge for those interested in the future of the minerals industries
MMSD: conceptual framework and topics for analysis
Sustainable development: emerging concepts of governance in the minerals industries
The role of the minerals sector in the transition to sustainable development | El rol del sector de los minerales en la transición hacia el desarrollo sustentable
