Sustainable territorial planning model of mining: focus on Latin America and the Caribbean

The purpose of the research was to structure a model to guide territorial planning, based on sustainability, work in mining areas, disaster risk management in direct union with adaptation to climate change and socio-environmental resilience building in Latin America and the Caribbean. Such goal is based upon the policies of all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 2030 Agenda (United Nations, 2019), the premises of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR, 2017), the criteria of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2018), and the recommendations of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM, 2019). The proposal presents a non-experimental cross-sectional field design adjusted to a projective study. A simple random sampling was applied with a result of 67 NGOs (N=80). The diagnosis was derived through a scale with internal consistency (alpha=0.95; p<0.05). The Guidance Model for Sustainable Territorial Planning of Mining was assembled following the significant associations between its components, the socio-environmental impacts of mining (W=0.936; gamma=-0.867; p<0.01), and with respect to disaster risk management (d=0.947; gamma=1.000; p<0.01). The study concluded that the Model directly mitigates the causes that generate negative socio-environmental impacts and promotes, through its transversal axes, the reduction of risks in mining space.