Building capacity in small-scale mining communities: Health, ecosystem sustainability, and the Global Mercury Project

EcoHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-369

  Spiegel, Samuel J ^a   Veiga, Marcello M ^a,b  

^a UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artisanal and small scale gold mining; Capacity building; Ecosystem approach to human health; Global Mercury Project; Mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH; INDONESIA; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LAOS; MINER; MINING; POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUDAN; TANZANIA; TRAINING; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 28244478016     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-005-8389-9     Document Type: Article

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