Is there room for environmental self-regulation in the mining sector?

In the framework of the growing awareness of potential environmental damages 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-regulatory arrangements have emerged in a couple of sectors, mining industry's initiative remains a phenomenon of interest grouping. The central question this paper is addressing is if there is room in the mining sector for ICME to become a self-regulatory arrangement in the future. Therefore we propose to cast light on the conditions permitting self-regulation to emerge. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.