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标题：Stone Quarrying and Livelihood Transformation in Peri-Urban Kumasi
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作者：Felix Asante ; Kabila Abass ; Kwadwo Afriyie 等
期刊名称：Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2225-0484
电子版ISSN：2225-0484
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：13
页码：93-107
语种：English
出版社：Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
摘要：Stone quarrying is one of the key extractive economic activities in the Ashanti Region, supplying the bulk of stone of varying aggregates to the construction industry within the region and beyond. Yet the resource-rich communities have seen little socio-economic i mprovements. The paper draws on experiences from Nkukua Buoho and Ntiri Buoho in the Afigya Kwabre District of Ghana. It examines the peoples’ livelihood transformation where quarrying, both small and large-scale is a dominant economic activity. With a sample size of 110 respondents, data was collected by means of questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The paper observed that while quarrying is a major economic activity, its effects in socio-economic and environmental terms are unsatisfactory. It is the view of this paper that effective collaboration involving all the stakeholders would make the industry socio-economically beneficial to the communities and environmentally sustainable.
关键词：Stone Quarrying; Livelihood transformation; Sustainability; Peri-urban; Buoho