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Senior Research Fellow |
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Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining |
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Biography
Daniel is a Senior Research Fellow at CSRM, responsible for leading the Centre’s research projects and advisory activities focused on the interface between communities, environment and technology, and the broad thematic areas of social impact assessment & management, and cumulative impacts. He is Co-Chair of the Social Impact Assessment section of the International Association for Impact Assessment.
For the past 12 years, Daniel’s work has aimed to build the capacity of government, industry and community stakeholders to bring about practical change to policies, systems and processes to meet the challenges resource extraction poses to sustainable and equitable development.
Daniel has worked for the Queensland State Government leading a social science and economics unit within the natural resources and water department. He has also held positions at Griffith University undertaking research and teaching on environmental policy and environmental politics, and as a geoscientist leading field operations consulting to the mining industry. He has also held research and leadership roles in various non-government environmental organisations.
Daniel has worked in most of the major mining regions in Australia and has international research and training experience (social science and geoscience) in Latin America, Cambodia, Canada, Switzerland and Brazil. He regularly contributes to training and professional development courses and guest lectures for environment, community and sustainable development subjects.
Daniel has a PhD from Griffith University where he was based in both the environmental science and public policy schools, and undergraduate and honours degrees from the University of Queensland in the field of earth sciences.
Projects
- Technology Futures, Mineral Futures Cluster Collaboration – CSIRO
- Methodology to Assist Proponents to Assess and Manage Cumulative Social Impacts within Environmental Impact Statements in Queensland – Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Queensland Government
- Collahuasi Community Relations Strategy - Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi (Anglo American, Xstrata, Mitsui), Chile
- The Foundations of Responsible Mining in Cambodia – United Nations Development Program
- Extractive Resources, Conflict and Governance: the implications for Advancing the Responsibility to Protect in the Asia-Pacific – Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade & Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
Publications
- Franks, DM, Boger, DV, Cote, CM, Mulligan, DR. 2011. Sustainable Development Principles for the Disposal of Mining and Mineral Processing Wastes. Resources Policy. Vol. 36. No. 2. [DOI]
- Boege, V and Franks, DM. 2011. Re-opening and developing mines in post-conflict situations: Scoping the challenges for company-community relations. In Pivi Lujala and Siri Aas Rustad (Ed.), High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. London, U.K: Earthscan.
- Franks, DM. 2011. Management of the social impacts of mining. In SME Mining Engineering Handbook 3rd ed. (pp. 1817-1825) Littleton, Colorado, USA: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.
- Franks, DM, Brereton, D and CJ Moran. 2010. Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Coal Mining on Regional Communities and Environments in Australia. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Special Issue: Cumulative Effects Assessment and Management. Vol 28. No. 4. pp. 299-312. December. [Download here]
- Franks, DM, Brereton, D, Moran, CJ, Sarker, T and T, Cohen. 2010. Cumulative Impacts - A Good Practice Guide for the Australian Coal Mining Industry. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining & Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. Australian Coal Association Research Program. Brisbane. ISBN: 978-0-9581710-2-1
Click here for a list of Daniel's publications
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