Effectiveness of Environmental Management and Technical Challenges in Achieving Sustainable Marble Mining in Rajsamand District
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https://doi.org/10.53983/ijmds.v14n6.009Keywords:
Marble Mining, Management Practices, Environmental DegradationAbstract
The purpose of this study is to analyse the current practices concerning environmental management in marble mining projects in Rajsamand District to evaluate their impacts and the technical problems preventing these practices from being considered as sustainably achievable. With the purpose of providing structured objectives alongside hypothesis-driven research, the study aimed at finding how well ecological concerns were integrated into practices and identifying the most important technical constraints affecting the practices’ success. To achieve the aims of the research, statistical methods of cross tabulation, ANOVA test, chi-square test and regression analysis were utilized to examine the association of effective environmental management and technical constraints on environmental management. The results of this study strongly confirmed the hypotheses with the observation of the null hypotheses being rejected, which verified that the provided environmental measures greatly affected the sustainability outcomes despite the technical limitations, pointing toward the greater linkage of constructs. With these results, the study claimed that policies and other strategic actions should be undertaken in order to address the gap that exists towards promoting sustainable mining in the region.
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