Sustainable livelihoods and indicators for regional development in mining economies

Extractive Industries and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 368-380

  Horsley, Julia ^a   Prout, Sarah ^a   Tonts, Matthew ^a   Ali, Saleem H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indicators; Mining; Regional development; Sustainable livelihoods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928928287     PISSN: 2214790X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2014.12.001     Document Type: Review

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