Impacts of surface gold mining on land use systems in Western Ghana

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 528-539

  Schueler, Vivian ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Schröder, Hilmar ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Farmland displacement; Ghana LUCC; Participatory analysis; Resource curse; Surface gold mining impacts

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOLD MINE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; LAND COVER; LAND USE CONFLICT; LANDSAT; MINING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GHANA; MINING;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GHANA; GOLD; MINING;

GHANA;

EID: 79959807931     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0141-9     Document Type: Article

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