I certainly do, particularly in the case of land use planning.
Indeed, there have been initiatives and efforts on the part of local organizations to try to establish basic land use planning procedures as a way of trying to think strategically about the expansion of extractive industries. What tends to happen is that extractive industries invest in places where deposits are, and are accessible, but in ways that are not coordinated with other development initiatives within those regions, so a land use planning process would have many benefits.
Let me mention two that seem to me to be of particular importance. One would simply be planning space strategically so one can foster synergies among different economic activities, and so one can protect certain natural resources, water sources, and so on. That would be a chance to plan strategically, which currently doesn't occur in the sense that the extractive industry investment happens and everything else catches up.
Two, a land use planning procedure that ex ante identified certain areas as off limits to mining, or off limits to hydrocarbon extraction, would do an awful lot to improve the legitimacy of the sector. If there were this sense on the part of a populace that even the sector accepted that significant areas were off limits because they were important for water resources, community access, or even for reasons of landscape, but particularly for water resources, that would enhance the legitimacy of the sector as well. Land use planning and supporting efforts to link land use planning with development planning would be critical and would be positive for the sector as well as the population.
On environmental impact assessment there is also a very important role for impact assessment. One of the great difficulties however is that citizens, and even governments, have a hard time making sense of such enormous reports. Work on simplifying environmental impact assessment, and then linking project-level impact assessment to a strategic environmental impact assessment that would be more regional, strikes me as an important way forward as well.