Improving awareness of mercury pollution in small-scale gold mining communities: Challenges and ways forward in rural Ghana
Improving awareness of mercury pollution in small-scale gold mining communities: Challenges and ways forward in rural Ghana
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DOI：
10.1016/j.envres.2006.09.010
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发表时间：
2007-02-01
影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
Pardie, Sandra
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作者：
Hilson, Gavin;Hilson, Christopher J.;Pardie, Sandra
本文件对加纳政府为解决手工和小规模采金业汞污染问题所采取的方法提出了批评。汞汞齐化过程中使用的汞在未经监测的情况下释放，在加纳农村地区造成了许多环境问题。然而，为解决日益严重的问题而采取的某些政策、技术和教育举措，证明充其量只能起到有限的作用，因为在设计和执行时没有认真分析矿区社区的动态、活动的组织、作业者的需要和当地的地质条件。要在这一领域取得显著的改进，就必须由政府发起，与现已遭到排斥的非法采矿团体加强对话;采用简单、成本效益高的技术来减少汞排放;以及开展政府赞助的参与性培训活动，以此作为传播有关适当技术和环境的信息的媒介。(c)2006年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
This paper critiques the approach taken by the Ghanaian Government to address mercury pollution in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector. Unmonitored releases of mercury-used in the gold-amalgamation process-have caused numerous environmental complications throughout rural Ghana. Certain policy, technological and educational initiatives taken to address the mounting problem, however, have proved marginally effective at best, having been designed and implemented without careful analysis of mine community dynamics, the organization of activities, operators' needs and local geological conditions. Marked improvements can only be achieved in this area through increased government-initiated dialogue with the now-ostracized illegal galamsey mining community; introducing simple, cost-effective techniques for the reduction of mercury emissions; and effecting government-sponsored participatory training exercises as mediums for communicating information about appropriate technologies and the environment. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.