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Mercury Pollution Due to Small-Scale Gold Mining: A Serious Menace [PDF]
This issue suggests measures to address the problem of mercury pollution and promote better environmental management of small-scale mining. Utilizing secondary data from mining institutions and primary data from key informants, two case study sites are ...
Asirot, Jasminda, Israel, Danilo C.
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Promoting environmental sustainability in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Tanzania
, 2021 This study examines the interaction between formalization of the artisanal and smallscale mining subsector and the regulation of negative environmental impacts in Tanzania.
Kinyondo, Abel, Huggins, Christopher
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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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Safe Mining Assessment of Artisanal Barite Mining Activities in Nigeria
, 2021 Barite, used in mud formulation, is mined in several places to support the industry. However, there is insufficient literature on the downside of mining and associated hazards, especially in the artisanal barite mining sector.
Richard Kwasi Amankwah +5 more
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Mercury Pollution Due to Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis [PDF]
The study reviews small-scale gold mining in the Philippines and assesses economically mercury pollution and other development problems of the industry.
Asirot, Jasminda, Israel, Danilo C.
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, 2021 The impact of artisanal mining on livelihoods in developing countries is a contentious issue. As a contribution to this subject, the study assessed the implications of artisanal gold mining activities on smallholder agriculture in the Wa East District of
Tuu, Gordon N-yelkabo +2 more
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No evidence of increased forest loss from a mining rush in Madagascar’s eastern rainforests
Communications Earth & EnvironmentArtisanal and small-scale mining is an important livelihood activity in many biodiversity hotspots. There is substantial international concern about the negative impact of artisanal and small-scale mining on biodiversity, yet in most places this remains ...
Katie Devenish +5 more
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Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences, 2019 The objective of the work is to evaluate the mercury exposure of children living in an artisanal gold mining area and in a control area, without mining.
Seyna Ueno Rabelo Mendes +4 more
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Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Coastal delta regions experiencing long‐term ecological degradation and sudden natural disasters require restoration approaches that are adaptive, process‐based, and context‐specific. The Samandağ coastline in southern Turkey, part of the Mediterranean Asi River Delta, has faced hydrological disruption, habitat fragmentation, and ...
Banu Tomruk
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