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Environmental Impacts of Mining: A Study of Mining Communities in Ghana
... The mining sector in Ghana consists of both small-scale and large-scale mining, each of which has varying environmental ...of mining activities in Ghana. The paper mainly focused on the mining ...
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Land Use Challenges in Mining Communities – The Case of Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality
... There are many regulations, statutes and planning responses in many African countries to ensure efficient land management and planning. However, these interventions have been less successful. Cities in Sub-Sahara Africa ...
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Motivations for providing CSR-mediated initiatives in mining communities of Ghana: a multiple-case study
... in mining communities. A major policy of the mining communities has been the use of community consultative committees as a fulcrum around which corporate-community engagements have ...host ...
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MINING COMMUNITIES’ PERCEPTIONS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN GHANA
... governments, communities and social groups look for better ways to protect the environment, and to ensure good quality of life for their citizenry, it has become necessary for firms or organisations that hitherto ...
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The impact of personal viability training on gender relations in mining communities : the case of Lihir, Papua New Guinea : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University, New Zealand
... As a Papua New Guinean woman growing up in a patrilineal society, it was an interesting experience to conduct this research in a matrilineal society. As this was the first time I had travelled to Lihir, I was anxious to ...
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Secondary students in two former mining communities: possibilities for the self
... In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe ...
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Mining – godsend or manmade disaster in the eyes of rural communities?
... resource communities suffer the ‘curse of resources’ (Bush, 2008, ...361). Communities are typically viewed as vulnerable to environmental and societal processes, and also less equipped to deal with it, ...
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Local communities and health disaster management in the mining sector
... of mining communities for many ...of mining to surrounding communities, a huge amount of social and environmental harm is associated with the ...regard, mining companies have, on the ...
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'Cursed' Communities? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Company Towns and the Mining Industry in Namibia
... There are a number of limitations and potential pitfalls associated with the use of a translator in qualitative research (Temple 2002, Young and Temple 2004, Twinn 2008). For one direct translation is not always ...
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Application of Environmental Geochemistry Research to Public Health Issues in Nigeria
... The mining communities live on subsistence agriculture; and ground water as a major source of potable water (Ngozi-Chika, 2012; Lar et ...small-scale mining activities undertaken along the river bed ...
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VULNERABILITY OF RURAL LIVELIHOODS TO THE EFFECTS OF MINING: A CASE STUDY OF AMANSIE WEST DISTRICT OF GHANA
... various communities instead of fifteen (15) minutes due to the poor nature of the roads making some roads almost inaccessible unlike non-mining communities even though nature of road was also found ...
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The spatial distribution of total and available heavy metals at areas of historic mining activity in the Peak District and their influence on local vegetation communities
... at mining areas (Ent, Baker, Reeves, Pollard, & Schat, 2013; Johnson, McNeilly, & Putwain, 1977; Kapusta, Szarek-Lukaszewska, & Stefanowicz, 2011; Morrey et ...historic mining areas have also ...
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Semi-Automated System For Filtering Objectionable Content Using Video Metadata
... J. Golbeck, et.al, [6] in "Combining provenance with trust in social networks for semantic web content filtering" had proposed that in Data mining the Classification is a data mining function that ...
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Baseline malaria vector transmission dynamics in communities in Ahafo mining area in Ghana
... since mining activities commenced and therefore environmental changes might impact on vector ...Also, mining activities attract several categories of workers and camp followers who might create settlements ...
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A Prelimary Molecular Approach for Characterizing Microorganisms Having the Potentials for Bioleaching of Iron Ore
... Crushed iron ore samples were collected at different locations within Agbaja iron ore mining site from the upper layer where most of the microbial activity takes place and thus where most of the bacteria ...
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Improved Inner Pattern Evolution Mechanism for Accurate & Efficient Text Mining
... data mining techniques have been proposed for mining useful patterns in text ...text mining. Since most existing text mining methods adopted term-based approaches, they all suffer from the ...
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Corporate Social Responsibility Activities of Mining Companies: The Views of the Local Communities in Ghana
... An increasing number of studies, both in the practitioner and academic press, show that firms are becoming more conscientious of the effects of their socially responsible behaviour. Innovative responsible strategy, ex- ...
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Enhanced Frequent Pattern Mining Using Eeurstps
... information mining frameworks, for example, constant delineation tunneling for Text ...information mining-based procedures utilize musings of close dynamic outlines and non-close cases to diminish the ...
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Application of data mining techniques for outlier mining in medical databases
... information for medical researchers and doctors. In fact, the study with medical data by using the DM techniques is virtually an unexplored frontier which needs extraordinary attention. The results of the present ...
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The non-energy mining industry: current situation and guidelines for a Community approach. Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament. SEC (92) 1884 final, 11 November 1992
... 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 207/1 I In/ormation COUNCIL COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 28 July 1989 on the development of the Community mining industry 89/C 207/Qt THE CO[r] ...
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