Sökning: "artisanal small-scale mining"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden artisanal small-scale mining.

  1. 1. Making Artisanal Gold Miners ‘Investable’ - A Novel Means of ‘Improving’ Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining? A neoliberal eco-governmentality analysis of ‘responsible’ artisanal and small-scale gold mining: the case of the Lake Victoria Gold Programme in Migori County, Kenya

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Författare :Gustav Dahlqvist; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining ASM ; responsible mining initiatives; neoliberal eco-governmentality; investability; gold; Kenya; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : Objectives: Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - a labour-intensive and low-tech mode of minerals extraction and processing - has received increasing attention amidst global commodity booms and its concurrent expansion. Infamously associated with negative social and environmental impacts, responsible mining initiatives have emerged to promote, measure, and enforce sustainable mining practices for ASM. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Local NGOs combat against Child Labour : A case study in Mwanza, Tanzania

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Författare :Halima-Sadiya Ahmed Abdullahi; [2023]
    Nyckelord :NGO; child labour; artisanal small-scale mining; agriculture; Mwanza; Tanzania;

    Sammanfattning : Children engage in paid and unpaid work that is damaging to them daily all around the world. They are categorized as child laborers, however when they are either too young to work or are engaged in dangerous activities that may jeopardize their physical, mental, social or educational development (Unicef 2021). LÄS MER

  4. 3. An institutional weakness? – The participation of Chinese miners in Ghana’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector.

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Författare :Enyam Joel Agbesinyale; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Chinese participation; ASGM; Institutional weakness; Rural transformation; Ghana; Social Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the ongoing debate on the involvement of Chinese nationals in Ghana's artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector. Despite the Minerals and Mining Law, Act 703 (2006) prohibiting foreigners from engaging in ASGM, it is reported that about 50,000 Chinese nationals have migrated to rural Ghana to engage in illegal mining activities. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Pueblo de mina, pueblo de ruina? : Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) formalization and environmental peacebuilding in Colombia

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Författare :Ulrika Lundin Glans; [2022]
    Nyckelord :artisanal and small-scale mining; ASM; formalization; environmental peacebuilding; local-level peacebuilding; sustainable livelihoods; community empowerment; natural resource conflicts; Colombia;

    Sammanfattning : High-value, lootable natural resources drive, finance and sustain armed conflicts around the world. At the same time, these resources are crucial for livelihoods through artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the very same contexts. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Barn i Afrikas gruvor : En studie om socialt arbete mot barnarbete i Afrika med barnkonventionen som utgångspunkt

    Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/HHJ, Avd. för socialt arbete

    Författare :Vilma Gull; Hanna Hessne; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Child labour; mining; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; social work; social context; Africa; Democratic republic of Congo; Western; Barnarbete; gruvarbete; barnkonventionen; social kontext; Afrika; Demokratiska republiken Kongo; Västvärlden;

    Sammanfattning : Denna studie beskriver utmaningar för socialt arbete mot barnarbete inom ASM-gruvarbete i Afrika. Detta är gjort genom en strukturerad litteraturöversikt där nio av 192 artiklar valdes ut, vilka tillsammans redovisar en översikt av existerande data. LÄS MER