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Delphi Round 2
- Future Needs
We need to:
- develop a long term "Vision"
of a desirable future and within that context a vision of
Sustainability for Mineral Resources;
- focus on a definition of
sustainability that includes mineral reosurces and shift
prescriptions for management to an appendix;
- state our vision in positive as
opposed to negative terms;
- include the short term (current
generation) aspects of SD as well as the long term (future
generation) aspects;
- incorporate the concept of multiple
use and acknowledge the need to balance among competing interests of
economic growth, environmental protection, and societal needs;
- put less emphasis on exhaustability
and nonrenewability and more emphasis on mineral sustainability,
i.e., recycling, substitution, regeneration, contributions to
endowments or capital;
- consider both sources and sinks;
- address issues of scale - global,
national, regional - and also of local versus global optima.
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