Risk attitudes and mitigation among gold miners and others in the Suriname rainforest

Natural Resources Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 267-278

  Heemskerk, Marieke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Risk attitude scale; Small scale gold mining; Suriname

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EMPLOYMENT; GOLD MINES; PERSONNEL; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTHROPOLOGY;

NATURAL RESOURCES;

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GOLD MINE; MINING INDUSTRY; OCCUPATION; RAINFOREST; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SURINAME;

EID: 0348010204     PISSN: 01650203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0165-0203.2003.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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