Shifting Formalization Policies and Recentralizing Power: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Artisanal Gold Mining Sector

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 543-558

  Spiegel, Samuel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; decentralization; decentralized natural resource management; mining; natural resource governance; policy and politics

Indexed keywords

ARTISANAL MINING; DECENTRALIZATION; GOLD MINE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFORMAL SECTOR; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SMALL SCALE MINING;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84929254031     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1014606     Document Type: Article

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