Small-scale mining, rural subsistence and poverty in West Africa
By: edited by Gavin M. Hilson
Contributors: Hilson, Gavin M
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rugby, Warwickshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9781853396298; 9781853396359
Subjects: Mineral industries -- Africa, West; Mines and mineral resources -- Africa, West; Mineral industries -- Developing countries; Mines and mineral resources -- Developing countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-311) and index
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa: An overview / Gavin H. Hilson; title: Poverty and economic development in West Africa: a historical analysis / Christopher J. Hilson; title: Poverty and artisanal mining in West Africa / Gavin M. Hilson; title: Artisanal and small-scale mining in West africa: an overview of sustainable development and environmental issues / Matthew Gibb; title: Mercury: an agent of poverty in West Africa's small-scale gold-mining industry / Sandra Pardie and Gavin M. Hilson; title: Fostering cooperation between small- and large- scale gold miners in West Africa / Richard K. Amankwah and C. Anim-Sackey; title: Artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa: achieving sustainable development through environmental and human rights law / Karen MacDonald; title: Pt. 2. County case studies: francophone West Africa: Introduction / Gavin M. Hilson; title: Artisanal and small-scale mining in Mali: an overview / Dialla Konate; title: Artisanal and small-scale gold mines in Burkina Faso: today and tomorrow / Eric Jacques ... [et al.]; title: Artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso: permits, poverty and perceptions of the poor in Sanmatenga, the 'land of gold' / Sabine Luning; title: Artisanal gold mining in northern Benin: a sociocultural perspective / Tilo Grätz; title: Pt. 3. Country case studies: Anglophone West Africa: Introduction / Gavin M. Hilson; title: Diamonds, poverty and war in Sierra Leone / Victor A.B. Davies; title: Reflections on the political economy of artisanal diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone / Estelle Levin; title: Perspectives on diamond mining and public health in Akwatia, Ghana / Kaakpema Yelpaala and Saleem H. Ali; title: Socioeconomic, environmental and policy implications of alluvial diamond mining in the Birim diamondiferous field, eastern Ghana / Frank K. Nyame and S.K.A. Danso; title: 'Live and let live': the relationship between artisanal/small-scale and large-scale miners at Abosso Goldfields, Ghana / Anthony Kwesi Aubynn; title: Strained relations: a critical assessment of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana / Gavin M. Hilson and Natalia Yakovleva; title: Addressing the environmental challenges of artisanal and small-scale mining in Nigeria / Miriam Anike Lawal; title: Postscript: progress on the horizon? / Gavin M. Hilson