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  1. 6. Assessing Mining-related risks in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality of Ghana

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Samhällsbyggnad

    Författare :Faustina Lina Yeboah; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Galamsey; MCA; GISwaps;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study was to assess the risks caused by illegal gold miningactivities (galamsey) in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality in Ghana with RemoteSensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques. Satellite imagerytogether with vegetation indices and the Australian Water Observation from Space(WOFS) algorithm was used to identify 3577 cells of potential galamsey sites in thePrestea Huni-Valley municipality. LÄS MER

  3. 7. The Right to an Environment Free from Toxic Pollution & State Obligations to Eradicate Asbestos—Now is the time

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Författare :Colette Heefner; [2019]
    Nyckelord :international human rights law; state obligations; toxic pollution; asbestos; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Asbestos mining and production manufacturing infringes on the right to live free from toxic pollution. Though as this right is not yet formally codified, this thesis will make a case for its recognition and concurrently push for a global ban of this fibrous set of naturally occurring minerals that are extremely hazardous to the human body. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Political Ecology of Tin Mining A Discourse Analysis of the Human-Environment Relation in the Study of Illegal Tin Mining on Bangka Island

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Författare :Tiara Elgifienda; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Illegal mining; Tin; Bangka; Political Ecology; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Bangka Island has been known as the most important tin producer in the world. Tin has developed the economy of the local people and even Indonesia in general. Unfortunately, mining is not only operated by corporations, but also by local people without proper procedures, resulting in a ruined landscape and ecosystem. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Categorizing drugs and explicit Websites using text mining : Text Based Categorization

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad

    Författare :Saharsha Reddy Pala; Patanjali Chintalapati; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Drugs; explicit content; machine learning; website categorization; text mining.;

    Sammanfattning : This report is a result of master thesis in network forensics at Halmstad University during spring term 2018. The focal point of the thesis was to analyse, categorize the websites into few categories i.e., drugs, explicit content and others based on text mining. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Controversial Materials : Ethical issues in the production of mineral based raw materials

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för teknikvetenskaper

    Författare :Emma Buratovic; Dervis Cocalic; Kasper Eliasson; Matilda Danestig; Linus Everlid; [2017]
    Nyckelord :controversial materials; environmental impact; social impact; minerals forecast; mining; critical materials; non-critical materials; aluminium; cobalt; copper; graphite; chrome; lithium; manganese; nickel; REEs; rare earth elements; scandium; silver; zinc; lead; PGM; NGO; non-government organisation;

    Sammanfattning : This report has investigated the ethical issues associated with mining or processing of materials that make them considered as controversial. For each material, the main areas of use and the top producing countries are analysed, followed by social and/or environmental issues as well as potential problems in the future. LÄS MER