Strategic Mining Plan Optimization: Mitigation of Environmental Degradation in Sustainable Development

Abstract

Mining activities are threatening all living things. Environmental damage, land disputes, and natural disasters are consequences the world must face, bringing the importance of studies on Strategic Mining Plan Optimization: Mitigation of Environmental Degradation in Sustainable Development. Mainstreaming studies for optimizing strategic mining plan aim to prevent environmental degradation in realizing sustainable development and plays an important role in developing knowledge about mining, environment, and social sciences and seeing the impacts caused by sand mining activities, like in Lumajang Regency. This study aimed to analyze and describe how to deal with environmental degradation for sustainable life, in contrast to other studies, which focused on the positive impacts, especially the economic benefits, arising from mining. This paper relied on primary and secondary data collected in stages through qualitative research methods from several platforms, such as news, journal articles, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar, as well as field interviews. Informants were selected by way of Snowball Sampling. The findings showed that optimizing mines to realize sustainable development needs 1)Mining Area Zoning, 2) Mining Transport Routes, and 3) Operational Hours Setting. This study expectedly could be the basis for the community, government, and parties involved in mining activities to preserve the environmental ecosystem.