Small-Scale Gold Mining (SSGM) is a way of life for many individuals living in mineral-rich but poverty-stricken areas Africa. The sector provides households with much needed income their livelihood sustenance. Although the literature on SSGM have brought some consensus environmental issues surrounding sector, limited attention has been directed at health and safety associated small-scale gold ...

Artisanal small-scale gold mining presents opportunities for Uganda’s rural poor. However, it also poses serious environmental, health and safety challenges. A suite of data collection methods including interviews, focus groups discussions, water soils sampling were used to examine the perceptions miners on status, prevalence extent mercury use in artisanal mining, transit routes toxicity level...

No-take Marine Protected Areas (Nt-MPAs) constitute an indispensable tool for biodiversity conservation. Nevertheless, there are other instruments such as marine coastal co-management policy frameworks which may be also considered as tools for conservation or as ancillary conservation instruments. Using focus groups, semi-structured interviews and survey questionnaires we analysed small-scale a...