2022
DOI: 10.5296/ijgs.v6i1.19917
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Sustaining the Environment in an Era of Small-Scale Mining in Ghana: Optimizing the Role of Institutions

Abstract: The study aimed at assessing the common constraints that affect the enforcement of small-scale mining laws and regulations which have created a vacuum for illegal operators to infiltrate the space with the associated environmental and social cost implications. Underpinned by the institutional theory, the study analyzes from existing theoretical and empirical studies to assess why institutions and agencies on artisanal and small-scale mining find it difficult to clamp down on illegal gold extractive activities.… Show more

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