DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDUSEPOL.2020.105271 Corpus ID: 233838508; Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Insights from a process net-map study @article{AduBaffour2021GovernanceCO, title={Governance challenges of small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Insights from a process net-map study}, …
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