Extractive industries, livelihoods and natural resource competition: Mapping overlapping claims in Peru and Ghana

Applied Geography

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 250-261

  Cuba, Nicholas ^a   Bebbington, Anthony ^a   Rogan, John ^a   Millones, Marco ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Concessions; Extractive industries; Ghana; Land use conflicts; Per

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955648348     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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