Water is More Important than Gold: Local Impacts and Perceptions of the 1995 Omai Cyanide Spill, Essequibo River, Guyana
Improved technologies, increases in global demand for metals, and lax environmental policies and regulations are causing a shift of large-scale mining activities to the tropics. This shift of mining to the tropics has the potential to modify natural ecosystems and disrupt the social structures of ru...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34552 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08152003-162551/ |