Publication Name

MINING FOR CLOSURE

acknowledgments

The development of this document,

Mining for Clo-

sure: policies, practices and guidelines for sustainable

mining practices and closure of mines

has been an un-

dertaking of The Environment Security (ENVSEC)

initiative. As such, the document was prepared un-

der the direction of the initiative partners – the Unit-

ed Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),

and the Organization for Security and Co-operation

in Europe (OSCE) with the North Atlantic Treaty Or-

ganization (NATO) as an associate partner.

This report was prepared on behalf of UNEP,

UNDP, OSCE and NATO by:

Philip Peck (The International Institute for

Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund

University, Lund)

Fritz Balkau (UNEP DTIE, Paris)

Jasmina Bogdanovic, Petter Sevaldsen, Janet

Fernandez Skaalvik, Otto Simonett, Thore André

Thorsen (UNEP GRID-Arendal, Arendal,

Geneva, Vienna)

Inkar Kadyrzhanova, Peter Svedberg (UNDP)

Raul Daussa (OSCE)

The draft document was also widely circulated for re-

view outside these agencies. The ENVSEC partners

appreciate the time that many organizations and indi-

viduals took to share ideas, discuss their own practical

experiences, and review the draft of this document.

Many of the participants of the

Sub-regional Confer-

ence on “Reducing Environment and Security Risks from

Mining in South Eastern Europe and the Tisza River

Basin”

conducted in Cluj-Napoca in Romania in May

2005 are included in this number. A number of the

ideas raised by these reviewers have been incorporat-

ed into this document. In particular, the Author and

the ENVSEC partners wish to thank the following in-

dividuals who reviewed all or part of the document

and submitted insightful feedback and critique:

Gilles Tremblay

Program Manager, Special Projects, Natural

Resources Canada

Andrew Parsons

Programme Director, Environment, Health

and Safety, International Council on Mining

and Metals

Dirk van Zyl

Director, Mining Life-Cycle Center University

of Nevada, Reno

Alexios Antypas,

Director, Department of Environmental Sci-

ences and Policy, Central European University

Stephen Stec

Head of Environmental Law Programme and

Senior Legal Specialist at the Regional Environ-

mental Center for Central and Eastern Europe

Further, the ENVSEC partners and the Author

wish to express their gratitude and best wishes

to Fritz Balkau formerly of UNEP DTIE in Paris.

Fritz was central to the instigation of the ENVSEC

mining and environment work in SEE in 2004.

He also was deeply involved in the Sub-regional

conference at which the draft version of this report

was launched and retired soon after. We thank him

for his many and valuable contributions over the

years.

Financial Support for the activities and publication

of this report was provided by:

Canadian International Development Agency

Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning

and the Environment

Any errors and/or omissions of this document re-

main the fault of the author.