Landscape assessment for sustainable resettlement of potentially displaced communities in Ghana's emerging northwest gold province

This study assesses the physical suitability of the local landscape to enhance resettlement of future displaced communities as a result of mining. The study focuses on Ghana's emerging northwest gold province. Landsat images from 1986 to 2014 were used to map land-use/land-cover changes to pred...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moomen, Abdul-Wadood, Dewan, Ashraf, Corner, Robert
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29253