Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-311) and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa: An overview / Gavin H. Hilson -- Poverty and economic development in West Africa: a historical analysis / Christopher J. Hilson -- Poverty and artisanal mining in West Africa / Gavin M. Hilson -- Artisanal and small-scale mining in West africa: an overview of sustainable development and environmental issues / Matthew Gibb -- Mercury: an agent of poverty in West Africa's small-scale gold-mining industry / Sandra Pardie and Gavin M. Hilson -- Fostering cooperation between small- and large- scale gold miners in West Africa / Richard K. Amankwah and C. Anim-Sackey -- Artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa: achieving sustainable development through environmental and human rights law / Karen MacDonald -- Pt. 2. County case studies: francophone West Africa: Introduction / Gavin M. Hilson -- Artisanal and small-scale mining in Mali: an overview / Dialla Konate -- Artisanal and small-scale gold mines in Burkina Faso: today and tomorrow / Eric Jacques ... [et al.] -- Artisanal gold mining in Burkina Faso: permits, poverty and perceptions of the poor in Sanmatenga, the 'land of gold' / Sabine Luning -- Artisanal gold mining in northern Benin: a sociocultural perspective / Tilo Grätz -- Pt. 3. Country case studies: Anglophone West Africa: Introduction / Gavin M. Hilson -- Diamonds, poverty and war in Sierra Leone / Victor A.B. Davies -- Reflections on the political economy of artisanal diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone / Estelle Levin -- Perspectives on diamond mining and public health in Akwatia, Ghana / Kaakpema Yelpaala and Saleem H. Ali -- Socioeconomic, environmental and policy implications of alluvial diamond mining in the Birim diamondiferous field, eastern Ghana / Frank K. Nyame and S.K.A. Danso -- 'Live and let live': the relationship between artisanal/small-scale and large-scale miners at Abosso Goldfields, Ghana / Anthony Kwesi Aubynn -- Strained relations: a critical assessment of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana / Gavin M. Hilson and Natalia Yakovleva -- Addressing the environmental challenges of artisanal and small-scale mining in Nigeria / Miriam Anike Lawal -- Postscript: progress on the horizon? / Gavin M. Hilson.
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