Estimating the “Forgone” ESVs for Small-Scale Gold Mining Using Historical Image Data

Estimating the “Forgone” ESVs for Small-Scale Gold Mining Using Historical Image Data

Ghana’s economic development relies largely on the mining industry, but the ecological cost is very high, particularly for the small-scale sector. To ascertain and give an account of the ecological pressures from the small-scale gold mining sector, we quantified and appraised the ecosystems (land co...

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Main Authors: Ernest Frimpong Asamoah, Lixiao Zhang, Gengyuan Liu, Nat Owusu-Prempeh, Emmanuel Rukundo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-10-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
Ecosystem Service Values (ESVs)
Provisional National Defense Council Law (PNDCL)
small-scale gold mining
ecological degradation
Ghana
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/11/1976

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