Global Gold Production Touching Ground : Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation

edited by Boris Verbrugge, Sara Geenen

1. Introduction: Snapshots of Global Gold Mining -- PART 1: TRENDS IN GLOBAL GOLD PRODUCTION -- 2. Theorizing the Global Gold Production System -- 3. Global Expansion -- 4. Informalization -- 5. Technological Innovation -- PART 2: GLOBAL GOLD PRODUCTION TOUCHING GROUND -- 6. Brazil: Garimpagem, Forever Informal -- 7. Peru: Curtailing Smuggling, Regionalizing Trade -- 8. Colombia: Legal Loopholes behind Illegal Gold Trade -- 9. Ghana: A History of Expansion and Contraction in Gold Mining -- 10. Ghana: Controversy, Criminalization and Chinese Miners -- 11. Burkina Faso: Global Gold Expansion and Local Terrains -- 12. Uganda: Gold as a (Trans)National Treasure -- 13. Guinea-Conakry and Burkina Faso: Innovations at the Periphery -- 14. The DRC: From Stones in the River to Diving for Dollars -- 15. Zimbabwe: A Gold Mining Boom amidst rapid Agrarian Change -- 16. Madagascar: Emergence and Persistence on the Hundred-Year Frontier -- 17. Indonesia: Adaptation and Differentiation in Informal Gold Mining -- 18. The Philippines: State-Sanctioned Informalization -- 19. Conclusion.

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Year of publication:	2020 ; 1st ed. 2020.
Other Persons:	Verbrugge, Boris (ed.) ; Geenen, Sara (ed.)
Publisher:	2020.: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2020.: Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Subject:	Goldbergbau \| Gold mining \| Technischer Fortschritt \| Technological change \| Außenhandel \| Foreign trade \| Gold \| Illegaler Handel \| Illicit trade \| Subsistenzwirtschaft \| Subsistence economy \| Multinationales Unternehmen \| Transnational corporation \| Asien \| Asia \| Afrika \| Africa \| Lateinamerika \| Latin America \| Goldproduktion \| Wirtschaftspolitik

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 379 p. 17 illus., 11 illus. in color.)
Series:	Springer eBook Collection
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-3-030-38488-3 ; 978-3-030-38486-9 ; 978-3-030-38485-2 ; 978-3-030-38487-6
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-030-38486-9 [DOI]
Classification:	Volkswirtschaftliche Ressourcen, Umweltökonomie
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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