Artisanal diamond mining
Subtitle: perspectives and challenges
By: edited by Koen Vlassenroot and Steven Van Bockstael
Contributors: Institut royal des relations internationales (Brussels, Belgium)
Publisher: Academia Press [for EGMONT]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789038213514
Subjects: Diamond industry and trade; Conflict diamonds; Diamond mines and mining; Small business
Notes: At head of title: EGMONT.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285)
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene : perspectives on artisanal diamond mining / Steven Van Bockstael and Koen Vlassenroot; title: Transborder artisanal and small-scale mining zones in Central Africa : some factors for promoting and supporting diamond mining / Francis Barthelemy, Jean Michel Eberle and Frederik Maldan; title: Diamonds without borders : a short history of diamond digging and smuggling on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola (1980-2008) / Filip De Boeck; title: Economic dynamics of artisanal diamond mining in relation to the Kimberley Process / Mark Van Bockstael; title: The misery and the mark-up : miners' wages and diamond value chains in Africa and South America / Shawn Blore; title: Monitoring, formalisation and control of the artisanal alluvial diamond mining sector / Kevin D'Souza and Emmanuelle de Pooter; title: Regulating reality : reconfiguring approaches to the regulation of trading artisanally mined diamonds / Nicholas Garrett, Harrison Mitchell and Estelle Levin; title: Artisanal diamond miners' cooperatives : what are they good for? / Shawn Blore; title: Development and peacebuilding : artisanal and industrial diamond exploitation in 'post-conflict' countries / Philippe Le Billon and Estelle Levin; title: Mining and rural development : the trajectory of diamond production in Ghana / Gavin Hilson; title: Diamond sector reform in Sierra Leone : a program perspective / Paul Temple; title: The Diamonds for Development (D4D) Programme in Liberia / Anna van Nieuwenhuizen; title: Artisanal diamond mining : challenges / Steven Van Bockstael and Koen Vlassenroot.