Community without solidarity: Mercury pollution from smallscale mining and Colombia's crisis of authority

Community Development Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 451-465

  Siegel, Shefa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMALL SCALE MINING; SUSTAINABILITY;

ANTIOQUIA [COLOMBIA]; COLOMBIA;

EID: 84880145480     PISSN: 00103802     EISSN: 14682656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cdj/bst027     Document Type: Article

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