Assessment of employees' perceptions of approaches to sustainable water management by coal and iron ore mining companies

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 153, Issue , 2017, Pages 608-625

  Liphadzi, Stanley M ^a   Vermaak, Andre P ^b  

^a WATER RESEARCH COMMISSION   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acid mine drainage; Mining; Pollution; Sustainability; Wastewater; Water resources

Indexed keywords

COAL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; IRON; IRON ORE REDUCTION; IRON ORES; MINING; ORE REDUCTION; PLANNING; POLLUTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SURVEYS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS; STATISTICAL PACKAGES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT APPROACHES; WATER SUSTAINABILITY;

WATER CONSERVATION;

EID: 84923165554     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.01.037     Document Type: Article

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