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Shifting sands: changes in community perceptions of mining in Ghana
Lawson, Elaine; Bentil, Gloria - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 16 (2014) 1, pp. 217-238
The contribution of mining to the Ghanaian economy has been substantial. The mining sector is currently a major foreign … these impacts. Often, new mining exploration takes place on land that provides land-based livelihood to many rural people …. Ironically, compensation payments seem to worsen poverty in the mining communities and bring about the social conflicts. Hence …
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Externalities of groundwater contamination due to pollution and effects on human and animal health in Karnataka
Varuni, C.N.; Chandrakanth, Mysore G.; Nagaraj, N.; … - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of … - 2006
In this study, negative externality due to distillery pollution on agriculture in Kabini command in Nanjanagudu taluk, Mysore District is estimated. The spent wash let in lagoons enables settling heavy metals to infiltrate soils, gradually affecting soil and health. The distillery opened during...
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Sustainable supply chains—minerals and sustainable development, going beyond the mine
Fleury, Anne-Marie; Davies, Bejamin - In: Resources Policy 37 (2012) 2, pp. 175-178
environmental sustainability performance of products influences the sustainability agenda of the mining and metals sector. It …
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Basic Psychological Needs Influencing the Regularity of Domestic Rainwater Tank Maintenance
Mankad, Aditi; Chong, Meng; Umapathi, Shivanita; … - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 12, pp. 4059-4073
Inadequate and irregular maintenance of rainwater tanks can lead to health risks, affecting individual users (e.g. home owners and others who may use/consume the water) and the general public more indirectly, through the spread of water borne disease and potentially costly health impacts. This...
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Examining Biophysical and Socio-Demographic Factors across Mandated Tank Users in Urban Australia: A Linking Step towards Achieving Best Practices
Mankad, Aditi; Chong, Meng; Gardner, Ted; Sharma, Ashok - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 7, pp. 1983-1998
This study examines biophysical and socio-demographic factors potentially affecting water use patterns of households with mandatory rainwater tanks in South East Queensland (SEQ). The Queensland Development Code (QDC) MP 4.2 promotes the use of rainwater tanks at the domestic level to reduce...
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Challenging logics of complex intervention trials: Community perspectives of a health care improvement intervention in rural Uganda
Okwaro, Ferdinand M.; Chandler, Clare I.R.; Hutchinson, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 131 (2015) C, pp. 10-17
Health systems in many African countries are failing to provide populations with access to good quality health care. Morbidity and mortality from curable diseases such as malaria remain high. The PRIME trial in Tororo, rural Uganda, designed and tested an intervention to improve care at health...
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COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS AS A COPING RESOURCE AMONG ADOLESCENTS LIVING UNDER ROCKETS FIRE: A SALUTOGENIC APPROACH
PELED, Daniella; SAGY, Shifra; BRAUN-LEWENSOHN, Orna - In: Journal of Community Positive Practices (2012) 4, pp. 681-702
The study examines community perceptions as coping resources among youth living in areas under rocket fire in the south of Israel. Community variables were examined as potential moderators and mediators of emotional reactions to stress. Data were gathered during 2007-2009 from 284 Israeli...
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Imagining the future: Community perceptions of a family-based economic empowerment intervention for AIDS-orphaned adolescents in Uganda
Ismayilova, Leyla; Ssewamala, Fred; Mooers, Elizabeth; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 10, pp. 2042-2051
AIDS-orphaned children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa have inadequate access to basic services, including health and education. Using a qualitative approach, the study explores the meaning of education in rural Uganda, obstacles faced by AIDS-orphaned adolescents and their caregivers to...
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River as an international environmental resource: the case of the Colorado.
JE, Jonish - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992
Focuses on the problem of the desalinization of irrigated land in the Lower Colorado River Basin.
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Regional Socio-economic and Environmental Changes and their Impacts on Water Resources on Example of Odra and Elbe Basins
Krysanova, V.; Kundzewicz, Z.; Pińskwar, I.; Habeck, A. - In: Water Resources Management 20 (2006) 4, pp. 607-641
During the last two decades significant socio-economic and environmental changes took place in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including collapse of the old socio-economic systems and climate change. The main objective of the paper is to analyse changes in water resources in the region and to...
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