The application of livelihood resilience theory to villages that have been resettled due to coal mining provides insights into the levels and impediments of livelihood resilience under different resettlement models. Such an exploration holds critical significance for enhancing the livelihood resilience of the resettled s and promoting sustainable development in coal mining …
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The study examined three unique communities in the Adansi area, including Bidiem which were resettled 26 years ago under the 1992 resettlement law, Dokyiwaa …
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In the field of geoscience, various applications have been proposed to manage and control natural phenomena using GIS, and literature reviews on GIS applications have been actively conducted [3,4,5,6,7,8]. However, in the mining sector, although GIS has been widely applied for mine development, no attention has been paid to evaluating the GIS ...
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Ghana's socio-economic development, since independence, has been driven by the Akosombo and Kpong dams that provide water (for domestic, agriculture and industrial use) and hydroelectricity. It was hoped that with these past experiences, the Ghana government would be in a better position to manage the livelihood issues of the newly built Bui ...
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Besides, illegal mining in forest reserves has been a global concern due to its harm to environmental resources. Perhaps, the [formal and informal] institutional perspective on curbing this menace ...
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Mining-induced displacement and resettlement (MIDR) involves the involuntary movement of people from one geo-graphic area to the other due to the destruction caused by mining …
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The report, which was validated by the communities reveals that compensation and resettlement are among the most common issues raised by mining communities in Ghana. It also highlights the need for continued efforts …
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Climate change-related human mobility has also occurred on a more localized scale with entire communities being displaced and resettled often to nearby locations (Bronen and Afifi 2010; Barnett and McMichael 2018). Across the world, populations have been displaced and resettled as a consequence of a range of drivers.
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Therefore, residential land has not been an issue with resettled s. On the other hand, the lack of compensation for agricultural land has been a major problem. This is because the 1986 Mining Law of Ghana does not provide for compensation for land, however, compensation is paid in the form of royalties to traditional authorities.
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Land acquisition in the Tarkwa mining areas has come to involve the resurvey and registration of old boundaries and parcels whose physical evidence on the ground have been destroyed decades ago. The destruction of the physical evidence of boundaries may be blamed on mining (both large and small
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There has been large scale gold mining in Ghana for at least the last one hundred years. ... 2012) has generated further interest. However, the role mining companies' play in the area of development in Ghana has been emphasized by Ababio and Boon (2009) when they noted that such pressures are intended to make the mining companies adopt ...
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The report, which was validated by the community and has been made available, reveals that compensation and resettlement are among the most common issues raised by mining communities in...
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The effectiveness of Ghana's mining legislation has been questioned. As Agyei (2016) put it, "[a] major weakness of Ghana is bad governance perpetuated by corrupt political elite and ineffective public institutions". ... The author argued that compensation alone is inadequate to prevent impoverishment of resettled communities; neither can ...
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A 25-kilometer access road from Balungu (off the Tamale-Bolgatanga Road) to its site, which has been opened to the public, connecting over 10 communities, is also completed. Mr Ofori-Asamoah said key among …
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According to Akabzaa and Darimani (2001), at least several hundred people each year are resettled in the region as a result of mining development.
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The application of livelihood resilience theory to villages that have been resettled due to coal mining provides insights into the levels and impediments of livelihood resilience under different resettlement models. Such an exploration holds critical significance for enhancing the livelihood resilience of the resettled s and promoting sustainable development in coal mining …
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Accra, May 2, GNA – Thirty-four major forest reserves in the country have been significantly affected due to illegal small-scale mining, otherwise known as "galamsey". A total of 4, 726.2 hectares of forests had, thus, been dissipated or degraded as a result of the mining illegalities carried out in those reserves.
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The findings reveal that mining has been a significant driver of economic growth in Ghana, contributing to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) through foreign exchange earnings, investment ...
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Mining has been a crucial economic sector in many developing countries but comes with costs for biodiversity and interrupts the provision of several ecosystem services to human society (Asare et ...
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land for mining purposes. In Ghana, for example, the Mining and Minerals Act, 2006 (ACT703) allows the president of the republic to acquire land that it deems to have valuable mineral deposits for the benet of the state. However, it has been noted that the …
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[Show full abstract] December 2011, a total of 600 families will have been resettled at ARDA Transau farm in Odzi in Manicaland Province. More displacements from the mining concession are planned ...
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The EDS was developed and validated by Higginbotham et al. after having undertaken qualitative fieldwork in an open-pit coal mining area in New South Wales, to monitor the "bio-psycho-social cost of ecosystem disturbance" and has since been applied in further studies [3,5,14]. The original EDS contains a subscale measuring solastalgia with ...
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Mining is an important human activity that serves as a significant source of income, and catalyst in broader economic development, particularly in terms of national revenues and jobs [21].Mining contributes appreciably to the global economy - accounting for 1.2 % of the world's total GDP [22].However, mining activity can have significant negative impacts and …
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Boundary resurveys have become necessary in most mining communities of Ghana, especially, Tarkwa and its environs due to pressure and alteration in land use and land cover by mining operations.
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Two new modernised communities have been commissioned in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region as part of resettlement package to pave way for large scale gold mining activities.
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Two new modernised communities have been commissioned in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region as part of resettlement package to pave way for large scale gold mining activities. The two communities, Digaare (Accra Site) and Biung were on land that had been leased out to the Cardinal Namdini Mining Limited, a subsidiary of […]
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Community relocation and resettlement programs have been put together by the Government of Ghana and large-scale mining firms as tools for managing land use conflicts.
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Msambweni division in Kwale County. Substantial research has not been affected to determine how mining activities have influenced the livelihoods of residents in Msambweni. The study was guided by the following research objectives: to determine the effect of displacement, compensation on the livelihoods of resettled communities,
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In Ghana, small-scale/artisanal gold mining has been on-going for more than a century. Artisanal mining has been the support for the rural people who more often than not are forced to sace ...
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