Historicizing Sustainable Livelihoods: A Pathways Approach to Lead Mining in Rural Central China

Lu, Jixia; Lora‐Wainwright, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.05.006

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“…These findings mirror research on small‐scale mining within China – for instance Lu and Lora‐Wainwright's () study in Hunan Province – which found that livelihood benefits are highly differentiated, with wealthier investors who began mining earlier profiting at a much higher rate than more marginalized individuals entering at later times. Future research could focus on the cleavages and power differentials that exist within and across groups of Chinese miners, and examine the differentiated impact that the Ghanaian gold rush has had on their livelihoods and the welfare of their households back in China.…”

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confidence: 79%

South‐South Irregular Migration: The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in Ghana

Botchwey

Crawford

Loubere

et al. 2018

International Migration

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This article examines irregular South‐South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the informal small‐scale gold mining sector from 2008‐2013. These migrants mainly hailed from Shanglin County in Guangxi Province. In Ghana, they formed mutually beneficial relationships with local miners, both legal and illegal, introducing machinery that substantially increased gold production. However, the legal status of Chinese miners was particularly problematic as, by law, small‐scale mining is restricted to Ghanaian citizens. In mid‐2013, President Mahama established a military task force against illegal mining, resulting in the deportation of many Chinese miners. The article examines the experiences of both Chinese migrants and Ghanaian miners. Findings are that irregular migration into an informal sector had long‐lasting impacts and played a significant role in the transformation of economic, political, and physical landscapes in Ghana.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 79%

South‐South Irregular Migration: The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in Ghana

Botchwey

Crawford

Loubere

et al. 2018

International Migration

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“…Chinese mines are mostly still relatively small, which makes regulating them efficiently a challenge (Lu and Lora-Wainwright, 2014;Shen et al, 2009). Artisanal and small-scale mining is a vital source of work in areas with few other options, employing millions of people and accounting for over half of China's mineral production (Shen et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…China's demand for mineral raw materials has grown by an average of 10% per year over the past 3 decades and has contributed to the recent global mining boom (Hilpert & Mildner 2013). Chinese mines are mostly still relatively small, which makes regulating them efficiently a challenge (Shen et al 2009;Lu & Lora-Wainwright 2014). Artisanal and small-scale mining is a vital source of work in areas with few other options, employing millions of people and accounting for over half of China's mineral production (Shen et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

A spotlight on snow leopard conservation in China

Alexander

Zhang

Shi

et al. 2016

Integrative Zoology

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China holds the greatest proportion of the snow leopard's (Panthera uncia) global range and is central to their conservation. The country is also undergoing unprecedented economic growth, which increases both the threats to the snow leopard and the opportunities for its conservation. In this paper we aim to review published literature (from 1950 to 2014) in English and Mandarin on snow leopard ecology and conservation in China in order to identify thematic and geographic research gaps and propose research priorities. We first retrieved all published items that considered snow leopards in China (n = 106). We extracted from these papers 274 reports of snow leopard presence in China. We then reviewed a subset of papers (n = 33) of this literature, which specifically focused on snow leopard ecology and conservation within China. We introduced a thematic framework that allows a structured and comprehensive assessment of findings. This framework recognizes 4 critical and interrelated topics underpinning snow leopard ecology and conservation: habitat (distribution and protected area coverage); prey (distribution and abundance, predator-prey relationships); human interactions (hunting and trade, livestock interactions and conflicts); and the underlying policy context. Significant gains in knowledge as well as research gaps and priorities are discussed with reference to our framework. The modest quantity and limited scope of published research on the snow leopard in China calls for a continued and intensified effort to inform and support national conservation policies.

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“…This points to the likelihood that the individual Chinese miners in Ghana have benefited in significantly different ways-with some potentially even being exploited. After all, research on smallscale mining within China has shown that the contribution to the livelihoods of miners is highly differentiated, with wealthier investors profiting at a much higher rate than more marginalised individuals (Lu and Lora-Wainwright 2014). Research has also documented the ways in which poor Chinese migrant workers are often exploited through the withholding (and sometimes nonpayment) of wages by 'labour subcontractors' (baogongtou) operating in townships and villages (Pun and Xu 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%