Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: global prices, deforestation, and mercury imports.
Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing countries from managing how natural resources are extracted to meet a strong market demand. Extraction for some resources has reached such proportions that evidence is measurable from space. W...
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Autores principales: | Jennifer J Swenson, Catherine E Carter, Jean-Christophe Domec, Cesar I Delgado |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/6fe2e02471914b57b876418b89e40fe2 |
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