Track 3: Environmental Stewardship

198 Table 2. Main approaches and limitations identified in the literature on post-mining transition. DIMENSION ANALYSED CURRENT APPROACHES IDENTIFIED LIMITS Post-mining land use (PMLU), territorial scaling, and regional approach Development of models that integrate environmental, economic, and social variables. Decision-making legitimacy is assumed, and authority, regulatory hierarchy, and binding mechanisms (governance) are not defined. Evidence that restoration requires long-term management and adaptive decisions The law tends to treat restoration as a final state, not as a continuous management regime. Identification of persistent hazards that affect land reuse Risk is treated as a technical variable, not as a legal decision. Recognition of cumulative effects and the need for regional coherence in post-mining transitions. The regional approach is not considered within land use planning. Closure regulation, environmental responsibility, and green transitions Progress in progressive closure, financial guarantees, and the path to release from liability. Focus on environmental risk; little attention to territorial governance and future uses. Quantification of mitigation potential (MP, blue-green infrastructure) in post-mining areas. Risk of new forms of extractivism without legal safeguards. Social dimension, community participation, and territorial rights Recognition of the social impact of closure and the need for early participation Participation is usually consultative, without any real redistribution of decisionmaking power. Identifying the limits of “comprehensive” regulation to ensure indigenous justice. Absence of legal frameworks ensuring control, comanagement, or territorial benefits. Evidence of the reproduction of inequalities in post-extractive investments (case: informal/illegal mining). Lack of distributive justice criteria in post-mining planning. Source: Prepared internally based on a comparative review of the literature. 2.6 Summary and conclusions on the state of the art

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