Fighting Small-scale Illegal Gold Mining in Ghana
A Systems-based Approach
Fighting Small-scale Illegal Gold Mining in Ghana
A Systems-based Approach
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Drawing on two decades of first-hand experience, Ebenezer Kwakye Agyemang offers the first full-length, comprehensive overview of small-scale illegal gold mining in Ghana in order to suggest new, better-informed ways of addressing the economic and social relations that sustain it.
As Agyemang shows, this sub-industry has grown into an existential threat to Ghana and other countries in West Africa, contributing to environmental degradation, public ill-health, and institutional corruption. Persistent failures to control it all share a core issue: namely, a lack of understanding of the value chain at its heart, which includes and affects a vast array of actors within and outside the country. In offering a fuller understanding of how this value chain works, Agyemang offers new ways of addressing it, including securitizing the sub-sector, banning certain machinery, and re-classifying it as organised criminal activity.
For its original, in-depth coverage and novel solutions, this book is a must-read for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in sustainable development, risk and development, and environmental protection and research management in Africa.
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Table of Contents
2. Gold in Ghana and Colonial Antecedents
3. Small-scale Mining Governance and Regulations
4. Posture and Response by Political Leadership
5. Artisanal to Illegal Small Mining Trends in Ghana
6. The Value Chain of Illegal Gold Mining in Ghana
7. Actors and Stakeholders in Small-Scale Illegal Gold Mining
8. Women and Sustainability in Small-Scale Gold Mining
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Product details
| Published | 29 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350606449 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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