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Nuevo Derecho, 2016 El ambiente es un derecho colectivo protegido constitucional y legalmente. Existen diversos agentes que deterioran el medio ambiente, entre ellos, el uso del mercurio en la minería informal, generando como consecuencia la contaminación de los recursos ...
Jaime Andrés Díaz Sánchez +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To address the shortcomings associated with state ownership, countries have implemented various legal strategies to curb political influence in state‐owned enterprises. This research studies whether these strategies constrain the government's ability to use their appointment powers for political considerations.
Pablo Torres
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Imaginario social de actores locales sobre la contaminación ambiental minera en el altiplano peruano
Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2022 El estudio sobre el imaginario social de los actores afectados por la contaminación ambiental en ámbitos locales donde se desarrollan actividades mineras, formales e informales, es de alta relevancia para lograr la ansiada complementariedad y la armonía ...
Edgar Quispe-Mamani +3 more
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.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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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana
Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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Acta Biológica Colombiana, 2023 El río Madre de Dios, en la Amazonía del Perú, es un cuerpo de agua que recibe relaves y desechos con mercurio (Hg) vertidos por la minería aurífera artesanal, informal e ilegal.
Esther Méniz-Oshiro +1 more
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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 7, Page 2281-2294, July 2026.Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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Poverty &Public Policy, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT To tackle lasting rural poverty and fully eradicate absolute poverty by 2020, the Chinese government introduced the “targeted poverty alleviation” (TPA) policy in 2013. Quantitative assessments prove the policy's success; yet multidimensional aspects and subjective perceptions of rural poverty are insufficiently accounted for.
Lisa Hoeschle, Shuang Liu, Xiaohua Yu
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Malaria en poblaciones con ocupación minera, Colombia, 2012-2018
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2021 Introducción. La malaria representa uno de los mayores desafíos de salud pública, principalmente en los países pobres. Ciertas características sociales de Colombia, como la migración, el trabajo informal y la escasez económica, favorecen la minería ...
Daniela Salas +3 more
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Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making
Review of Policy Research, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 629-657, May 2025.Abstract For centuries, coal extraction and production provided low‐cost energy that powered the American economy. Currently, an estimated 5.5 million people in the Appalachian region live within one mile of an Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site. The site remediation has been funded and promoted by the AML program under the Surface Mining Control and ...
Karsyn Kendrick, Younsung Kim
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