Gold Mining And Changing Perceptions Of Risk In West Java

Gold Mining And Changing Perceptions Of Risk In West Java Rini Soemarwoto, and Roy Ellen, 2010   Artisanal gold mining presents some risks that can be accommodated easily within traditional cosmologies and perceptions of natural causation, and other health costs that are often new for those involved, and which require people to radically modify their evaluation and management of risk. This paper examines changing perceptions of risk for the Kasepuhan, an upland cultural enclave in West...

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