Socio-Economic Impacts of Mining on Local Livelihoods
2017-9-4 · and economic development (Davis and Tilton, 2005). Mining profoundly impacts local communities in the form of jobs, mi-grant workers, land, water, air and noise, loss of wildlife habi-tat, increased tax revenue, etc. The argument is that the im-pact of mining on the livelihoods of the local communities is largely neglected.