Feb 20 2009
Publications
Recently Released: Mining and Community Health: A British Columbia Based Research Project
This paper was produced as part of the Mining and Community Health project, a collaborative research initiative between the School of Population and Public Health and the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. It identifies key findings regarding characteristics associated with British Columbia mining communities, the mining industry and academics to consider. Associated research projects, author acknowledgements and information, and citations are provided at the end of the report.
To download the report please go to: http://www.cher.ubc.ca/researchreports/publicationlist.asp
Authors: Janis Shandro, Mieke Koehoorn, Malcolm Scoble, Christie Hurrell
Topics investigated by SWG members
- Aboriginal participation in mineral development : environmental assessment and impact and benefit agreements (Fidler, 2008)
- An analysis of stakeholder perceptions regarding the closure of the Highland Valley Copper Mine (Roberts, 2005)
- Assessing the application of decision analysis in stakeholder consultation in the mining industry (Thrift, 2005)
- Healthy mining communities: the interdependency of companies and communities (Anderson, 2002)
- Integration of sustainability into the mine design process (Odell, 2004)
- Investigating complex-value-based community mine education strategies : a case study with the Tlicho community in the Wek’eezhii region Northwest Territories, Canada (Chouinard, 2009)
- Mineworkers’ quality of life in remote communities : a multiple case study in the Brazilian Amazon (Costa, 2008)
- Negotiated spaces : work, home and relationships in the Dene diamond economy (Gibson, 2008)
- Realities and perceptions of human rights and the mining industry : a case study (Handelsman, 2009)
- System analysis perspectives : lead-acid battery recycling in British Columbia, Canada (Silva, 2008)
Research on ASM
- Adapting Economic Games for Organization of Artisanal and Small Scale Gold Miners in Tanzania (Scoble, 2006)
- Earthworms as a Bioindicator of Mercury Pollution in an Artisanal Mining Community, Cachoeira do Piriá, Brazil (Hinton, 2002)
- Identifying strategies for effective artisanal and small-scale gold mining interventions in Kadoma-Chakari, Zimbabwe (Metcalf, 2008)
- Mercury and Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Miners in China (Gunson, 2004)
- The needs of miners: political ethics, mercury abatement, and intervention in artisanal gold mining communities (Shefa, 2007)
Research on Environmental Technology
- Arsenic removal by iron oxides (Aredes, 2006)
- Evaluation of Environmental Impacts of Riverbed Dredging: A Proposed Project on the Lower Caroni River, Venezuela (Sandoval, 2003)
- Geochemistry of selenium release from the Elk River Valley coal mines (Lussier, 2002)
- Inverse Modelling of Tailings Covers (Roche, 2008)
Numerous journal and conference papers were published on these topics and more.
The above links will either direct you to an electronic version of the thesis or to the UBC library catalogue record.
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