Black gold in Ghana: crude days for fishers and farmers?

Local Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 259-282

  Obeng Odoom, Franklin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Africa; ecology capital; labour; oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894480716     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.788481     Document Type: Article

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