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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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The politics of toxicity governance in Colombian gold mining
Journal of Political EcologyThe most recent Global Mercury Assessment estimates that human-made mercury releases are approximately 2,220 tons per year and that a significant source is artisanal and small-scale gold mining (UNEP 2019).
Christoph Kaufmann
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Mining technology in the artisanal extraction of gold
, 2014 El estudio mide el nivel de influencia de la tecnología en la extracción de minerales auríferos por el sector artesanal, estableciendo los niveles de uso de la tecnología en el ciclo de minado en la minería artesanal, que comprende las actividades principales de extracción del mineral aurífero.
Romero Baylón, Alfonso +2 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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Accès aux ressources naturelles et foncières en Amazonie péruvienne
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2019 Based on the analysis of a protected buffer zone located in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s, this article explores the power relations between farmers and artisanal miners, by ...
Céline Delmotte
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IMPACT OF ARTISANAL PERMA GOLD MINING ON GROUNDWATER QUALITY
International Journal of Advanced Research, 2022 The artisanal exploitation of gold in Perma is not without impact on the environment and even the quality of groundwater. For this, three gold panning sites were selected. Samples of water (surface and underground) and sediments were taken during the rainy season between the months of August and September 2021.
L.A.S. Tometin +6 more
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to deglobalization and economic nationalism, using historical evidence from fascist Italy, a period of autarky and restricted international trade. While prior research has focused primarily on larger firms, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs), the strategic ...
Valeria Giacomin, Francesco Romagnoli
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International Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Mining and Mercury Contamination in Colombia [PDF]
, 2019 This paper describes key aspects of our experience with international interdisciplinary collaboration. Two Colombian engineers and an American interdisciplinary researcher comprised our team.
Cristian A. Flórez +2 more
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