IS THERE ROOM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SELF-REGULATION IN THE MINING SECTOR

In the framework of the growing awareness of potential environmental d amages related to extractive activities, mining companies founded the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME) and adopted a code of conduct for environmental management. But while self-regula tory arrangements have emerged in a couple of sectors, mining industry 's initiative remains a phenomenon of interest grouping. The central q uestion this paper is addressing is if there is room in the mining sec tor for ICME to become a self-regulatory arrangement in the future. Th erefore we propose to cast light on the conditions permitting self-reg ulation to emerge. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.