Water values in a Ghanaian small-scale gold mining community

Human Organization

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 199-210

  Long, Rachel ^a   Renne, Elisha ^b   Robins, Thomas ^a   Wilson, Mark ^d   Pelig Ba, Kenneth ^e   Rajaee, Mozhgon ^a   Yee, Allison ^a   Koomson, Elizabeth ^a   Sharp, Codi ^a   Lu, Jing ^c   Basu, Niladri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b African Studies ^*  (United States)

^c Dept of Environ Health Sciences   (United States)

^d School of Public Health and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^e University of Development Studies Navrongo   (Ghana)

Author keywords

artisanal gold mining; gender; Ghana; health; value; water

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL MINING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FORCED MIGRATION; GENDER; GOLD MINE; HEALTH RISK; KNOWLEDGE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONALITY; SMALL SCALE MINING; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

GHANA;

EID: 84882657138     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.72.3.n060516488mwk236     Document Type: Article

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