Towards sustainable socio-environmental regeneration
The former mining province of Midelt in Morocco, affected by structural droughts, has been undergoing profound reorganisation for some forty years. Marked by the decline of industrial mining activities and the retreat of pastoralism, the reconversion is taking different directions: arboriculture, artisanal prospecting, mineral trading, urbanisation, etc. These forms of land use and occupation are accentuating socio-environmental tensions such as the dissemination of potentially polluting mining waste, the social insecurity of former miners and the redefinition of the agricultural sector around intensive monoculture.
The LMI AMIR has launched an interdisciplinary mission bringing together around thirty researchers in the social and environmental sciences to study socio-environmental changes in a post-industrial mining context affected by structural droughts.
Our ambition? To suggest ways of improving the situation for local people, in collaboration with local stakeholders.
Interdisciplinarity is at the heart of our approach to understanding and acting on the complexities of this dynamic region.
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