{"id":501,"date":"2016-04-30T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/?p=501"},"modified":"2016-07-08T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:51:27","slug":"evaluating-conflict-surrounding-mineral-extraction-in-ghana-assessing-the-spatial-interactions-of-large-and-small-scale-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/2016\/2016\/evaluating-conflict-surrounding-mineral-extraction-in-ghana-assessing-the-spatial-interactions-of-large-and-small-scale-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating conflict surrounding mineral extraction in Ghana: Assessing the spatial interactions of large and small-scale mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>| By K Patel, J.Rogan, N. Cuba, A. Bebbington | Published by <em>The Extractive Industries and Society<\/em>, April 2016, Vol.3(2), pp.450-463 | <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong>: Since implementation of its Economic Recovery Program in 1983, Ghana\u2019s extractive industries have come to account for 40% of the total value of the country\u2019s exports. An adverse impact of this increase, however, has been increased extraction-related conflict due to heightened competition between large and small-scale operators over mineral-rich lands. This paper characterizes these conflicts in the south-central section of the country by mapping the spatial overlaps between large and small-scale miners. Classification tree analysis of 2013 and 2015 Landsat-7 and -8 imagery was used to identify small-scale mine sites. The overlaps between these sites and large-scale concessions are examined in the context of reported mining conflicts. Results reveal that there is a large amount of resource competition between the two parties, specifically, more than half (i.e., 52%) of the identified small-scale mining activity occurs within the boundaries of large-scale concessions. The northwest corner of the study area contains 50% of the identified overlaps; the southwest corner contains 40%; and the northeast corner contains 10%. In most cases, these overlaps take place on prospecting concessions. The work illustrates how mapping and quantifying areas of spatial overlap between large and small-scale miners can help stakeholders implement more effective policy solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| By K Patel, J.Rogan, N. Cuba, A. Bebbington | Published by The Extractive Industries and Society, April 2016, Vol.3(2), pp.450-463 | Summary: Since implementation of its Economic Recovery Program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25267,34831],"tags":[31458,34833,24039,34796,34832,34834],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25267","category-peer-refereed-articles","tag-africa","tag-small-scale-mining","tag-conflict","tag-extractive-industries","tag-ghana","tag-large-scale-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}