Adverse mining effects, notably the uncontrolled spread and consequences of artisanal and
small-scale mining (ASM), are growing concerns in sub-Saharan Africa. A securitization …

This paper demonstrates how politics mediate the formulation and everyday implementation
of formalisation within the informal artisanal mining space in Ghana. It employs ethnographic …

Distribution of the water flow path and residence time (HRT) in the hyporheic zone is a
pivotal aspect in anatomizing the transport of environmental contaminants and the metabolic …

Industrial and urban development are contributing to an increase in global environmental
degradation. Therefore, the release of heavy metals from mining-related operations into …

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is increasingly damaging forest, land, and water
resources, and this occurrence is rapidly gaining the attention of interest groups across the …

Ghana, like most resource-rich countries, is saddled and inundated with resource curse
challenges. Key among them is the problem of illegal small-scale gold mining activities …

Recent interest by governmental, non-governmental and civil society organisations in
monitoring, tracing, tracking and flushing out illegal mining activities in Ghana has …

The wet evergreen forest ecological zone of Ghana is undergoing notable structural
changes, although most maps erroneously depict the area to be an intact forest. Several …

Although the commercial polyurethane (PU) foams are hydrophobic in nature, they generally
show low degree of reusability for oil and organic solvent absorption. In this work, we …

Are all humans morally responsible and deserving of blame for land cover change? Land
cover change research has yet to provide an answer to this moral question. The purpose of …