Asian investment at artisanal and small-scale mines in rural Cameroon

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 64-72

  Weng, Lingfei ^a   Endamana, Dominique ^b   Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni ^a   Levang, Patrice ^c,d   Margules, Chris R ^a   Sayer, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b International Union for Conservation of Nature ^*  (Cameroon)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Artisanal and small scale mining; Asian investment in Africa; Cameroon; Chinese settlements in Africa; Resource governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920911869     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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