Small-scale mining in Ghana: The government and the galamsey

By B. Teschner. 2012

189 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Building and Construction

1. David Botchie
2. George Ofosu
3. A. Dittmann
4. David Sarpong
5. E. Adu-Darko
6. A. Hilson
7. G. Hilson
8. Boris Verbrugge

In Economics and Econometrics

1. E. Adu-Darko
2. A. Hilson
3. David Botchie
4. George Ofosu
5. A. Dittmann
6. David Sarpong
7. G. Hilson
8. Boris Verbrugge

In Sociology and Political Science

1. David Botchie
2. George Ofosu
3. A. Dittmann
4. David Sarpong
5. E. Adu-Darko
6. A. Hilson
7. G. Hilson
8. Boris Verbrugge

Citations in the corpus

• Socio-economic and environmental implications of Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) on agriculture and livelihoods (2020, background): “Teschner (2012) perceptively describes the problem at hand: In fact illegal mining is so public that the casual observer may not believe it could possibly be illegal (p.312).”
• Chinese Participation in Ghana's Informal Gold Mining Economy: Drivers, Implications and Clarifications (2014, background): “2008; Bush, 2009; Teschner, 2012) has overshadowed the dynamics of its legal small-scale gold mining sector, most significantly, how, despite being populated by licensed operators, it exhibits all of the characteristics of an informal industry: a continued dependency on rudimentary technologies; an…”
• Socioeconomic and environmental assessment of informal artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana (2018, background): “These public views are consistent with that of Teschner (2012), who attributes the boom in informal ASM to political leniency and lack of government control.”