Publications

Barnes, R., Keenan, J., Williams, C. and Hamilton, B. (2025). Restoring Country: Exploring Indigenous-led participation in mine closure and environmental services: Report on the collaborative webinar series. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland: Brisbane.

Centre for Social Responsbility in Mining

Report

Australia

Lèbre, E., Czarnota, K., Walsh, S.D.C., Haynes, M., Ufer, N., Sonter, L.J., Sreekar, R., Bolz, P., Bulovic, N., Côte, C., Kunz, N.C., Micklethwaite, S., Northey, S.A., Rochford, L.M., Schodde, R., Seligmann, B., Sturman, K. (2025) ESG mapping of the Australian mining sector – The state of play on mobilising spatial datasets for decision making, Resources Policy, Volume 105, 105592, ISSN 0301-4207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105592. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420725001345)

Resources Policy

Article

Australia

Vivoda, V., Loginova, J, Kemp, D. (2025). Geopolitics and mine waste: An overview and future research directions. Journal of Environmental Management Volume 385, June 2025, 125545.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125545

Journal of Environmental Management

Article

Global

Unger, C.J, Burton, J., Kemp, D. (2025). Abandoned mine clusters and their intersection with Indigenous peoples’ land rights in Australia. Journal of Environmental Management Vol 385. 125357 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125357

Journal of Environmental Management

Article

Australia

Worden, Sandra (2019). The construction and assessment of social risk: perspectives from Australian coal mining project teams. PhD Thesis, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2019.354

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland

Thesis

Australia

Wang, Y., Zhang, R., Worden, S., Cao, H., and Li, H. (2021). Public participation in environmental governance initiatives of chemical industrial parks. Journal of Cleaner Production 305 127092 127092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127092

Journal of Cleaner Production

Article

Global

Worden, S., Neme Gaviola, L., Munguia Llort, P., Tapia Rivera, R. (2022). Mine Closure Hub - resources for communities. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining.

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, the Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland

Educational Resource

Global

Worden, Sandy, Holcombe, Sarah, and Keeling, Arn (2024). How do Queensland’s mining closure regulations stack up on the social front?. Chermside, QLD Australia: Bowen Basin Minnig Club.

Bowen Basin Mining Club

Article

Australia

Loginova, J., Landauer, M., Joona, J., Datta, R., Joona, T. (2025) Enabling Indigenous-centred decision-making for a just energy transition? Lessons from community consultation and consent in the circumpolar Arctic

Energy Research & Social Science

Article

Global

Harris, J., Kemp, D., Owen, J.R. (2024) Private commissions of public inquiry: Community conflict and multilayer dissonance in the mining industry, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, Brisbane

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Article

Global

Doomadgee, A. & Holcombe, S. E., (2024) “"What does Closure even mean?" at Century Mine: Multiple companies, mine closure trajectories and disputation”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6200

Journal of Political Ecology

Article

Global

Keenan, J. & Hannay, L. (2024). Returning land to local communities: A Tanzanian case study and lessons for responsible land divestment. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. https://arcg.is/TbGi40 Keenan, J. & Hannay, L. (2024).

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining

Educational Resource

Global

Dowell, K. & Holcombe, S. E., (2024) “Reasserting Gija women's role in mine site reclamation: A perspective from the Argyle Diamond Mine”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 6219.

Journal of Political Ecology

Article

Global

Sharma, V., Aggarwal, M. (2024) Can meaningful consultation and consent advance fair and equitable large-scale renewable energy development? Reflections from India.

Energy for Sustainable Development

Article

Global

Brereton, D.; Flynn, S.; Kemp, D (2024) An essay on mining and the moral obligation not to harm others

Resources Policy

Article

Global

Kuswati, R., Saputra, M. R. U., Bria, E., Kemp, D., Sturman, K., and Alex Lechner, A. M. Time series of nickel production with coal-fired power plants at Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park 2009 to 2023

The University of Queensland, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining

Educational Resource

Asia

Kuswati, R., Saputra, M. R. U., Bria, E., Kemp, D., Sturman, K., and Alex Lechner, A. M.. Time series of Indonesian nickel and coal mining and related infrastructure development 2008 to 2023.

The University of Queensland, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining

Educational Resource

Asia

Sturman, K., Miller-Dawkins, M., Occasional Paper, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland: Brisbane, Australia.

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining

Occasional Paper

Global

Kathryn Sturman, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland (Australia); Deanna Kemp, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland (Australia); Alex Benkenstein, South African Institute of International Affairs (South Africa); Marit Kitaw, African Minerals Development Centre (African Union); Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Nia Tero (Philippines); Isabel Cane, Cane Advisory (France); Halima Goumandakoye, African Minerals Development Centre (African Union); Charting a people-centred minerals strategy to safeguard Indigenous and land-connected communities in the global energy transition.

T20 Brasil 2024

Conference Paper

Global

Holcombe, S., Worden, S., & Keeling, K. (2024). Comparative perspectives on the social aspects of mine closure and mine site transition in Canada and Australia in T. Rodon, S. Thériault, A. Keeling, S. Bouard & A. Taylor (Eds.), Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods: Rights, Revenues, and Resistance. London, UK: Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003406433

Mining and Indigenious Livelihoods, Routledge

Book Chapter

Global

Parmenter, J., Leroy-Dyer, S., & Holcombe, S. (2024). Breaking the hierarchy: Exploring intersectional employment strategies in the Australian mining industry for Indigenous women. The Extractive Industries and Society, 19, 101480.

The Extractive Industries and Society

Article

Australia

Garlett, E., Holcombe, S.(2023) Sustainable water in mining? The importance of traditional owner involvement in commercial water use and management in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Oceania, Vol. 93, Issue 3 (2023): 282–301

Oceania

Article

Australia

Barnes, R. (2024) ‘Grounds of objection: climate change, Country, and human rights in the Waratah Coal case’. Occasional Paper, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland: Brisbane, Australia.

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining

Occasional Paper

Australia

Worden, S. & Bourke, P. (2024). Rosebery’s post-mining future: Perspectives from the visioning workshop. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland: Brisbane, Australia.

Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining

Report

Australia

Sharma, V., Loginova, J. (2024). Industry shutdowns are messy and painful: 4 lessons Australia’s coal sector can learn from car-makers about bowing out. The Conversation.

The Conversation

Article

Australia