Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) poses threats to biodiversity and the health well-being of human communities. However, ASGM also economically supports several populations from lower social-economic backgrounds, especially in Global South. In Madre de Dios (MDD), Peru, is most significant economic activity, involving stakeholders form different levels governance. To protect this area’s ...

<p align="justify">The artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector offers a supplementary livelihood strategy to agriculture in northern Ghana, acting as source of capital support agriculture. However, the has been associated with several adverse environmental socio-economic consequences, making its sustainability dimensions extremely complex inconclusive across literature. This study s...

Artisanal and small-scale gemstone miners are the workers with the highest health risk exposure in Tanzania. Gemstone mining at Merelani tanzanite mines which has gone to depths of 100 m or more in narrow straight and inclined shafts, underground artisanal miners work under a very harsh environment. Tanzanite deposits are located within sheared zones, lying along a deepseated Lelatema fault zon...

Abstract Increased prices and political pressure are boosting illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, threatening forests, indigenous people, conservation of biodiversity protected areas. The rate deforestation increased more than 90% from 2017 to 2020, reaching 101.7 km 2 annually 2020 compared 52.9 2017. In that period, grew clearing within leases. While formal is required comply with en...

Postapartheid fisheries reform in South Africa, through the Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA) 18 of 1998, used individual transferable quotas (ITQs) to broaden resource access through allocating quotas to new entrants, even though the system has been created to reduce capacity through a reduction in the number of active fishers. The formal action space created through fisheries reform in South...

The unpredictable climate in wet tropical regions along with the spatial resolution limitations of some satellite imageries make detecting and mapping artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) challenging. The objective of this study was to test the utility of Pleiades and SPOT imagery with an object-based support vector machine (OB-SVM) classifier for the multi-temporal remote sensing of ASM and ...

The Indonesian National Police (POLRI) has succeeded in suppressing illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) that been taking place Mount Botak, Buru Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia. However, POLRI only creating a temporary absence of ASGM. This study aims to analyse an additional role could play achieving social and ecological justice by promoting positive functioning order. We use...

Currently, the impacts of Covid-19 are receiving significant global attention. This also applies to extractive industries, where this crisis is directing gaze policymakers, donors and academics alike. seen as having far-reaching disruptive consequences, especially in case artisanal small-scale mining. While authors consider attention important, their work on mining Ghana – West Africa more broa...