Socioeconomic Impact of Mining in the Atiwa Forest Reserve of Ghana on Fringe Communities and the Achievement of SDGs: Analysis from the Residents' Perspective

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/21:43920415

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/f12101395" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/f12101395</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12101395" target="_blank" >10.3390/f12101395</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Socioeconomic Impact of Mining in the Atiwa Forest Reserve of Ghana on Fringe Communities and the Achievement of SDGs: Analysis from the Residents' Perspective

Original language description

The Atiwa forest reserve of Ghana sits upon roughly 150 million tons of bauxite. The Government has decided to mine and use the proceeds for national infrastructure development programs. This article examines the impact of mining on the residents&apos; livelihoods and the achievement of the SDGs from the perspective of the residents. A questionnaire was administered to 197 respondents. Per the findings, the residents around the forest reserve do not consent to the proposed mining project. Although they give credit to its possible job creation opportunities, the irreplaceable nature of the forest reserve urges them not to consent to the initiative. They depend on the rivers and streams for their livelihoods, and the affected districts are also among Ghana&apos;s major cocoa producers. These farmers depend on these water bodies for irrigation. It is necessary to preserve them in order to sustain the production of these cash crops that make a direct contribution to the country&apos;s GDP.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Forests

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1395

UT code for WoS article

000715102100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85118213827