Spatial planning of development in mining regions is directed by the legislative framework, since mining activities, in addition to positive ones (economic progress), have numerous negative impacts at the local and regional level. Beside environmental degradation, social (2) social impacts are briefly mentioned, without elaboration of mitigation measures (declarative approach), (3) several relevant strategies are outdated, or even abolished without proper replacement; and (4) the emphasis is on environmental aspects, while consideration of other social impacts is poor and sporadic. Adoption of a single act to regulate mining-related development would overcome hierarchical and horizontal inconsistency, omissions, and include neglected aspects i.e. social impacts of resource extraction.
Maričić et al. (Wed,) studied this question.