Quarrying and livelihoods
Uvie Otive-Igbuzor
Broschiertes Buch

Quarrying and livelihoods

A Case Study of Mpape Community in Nigeria

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Mpape, a poorly planned suburb of the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria lies side-by-side blasting sites that pollute the environment, destroy the ecosystem with negative impacts on residents health and livelihoods. Aside from building access roads to their sites that double for residents' use and providing benefits to a few (i.e. traditional "indigene" rulers) in exchange for favours, residents say that mining companies have done little to support infrastructural development in the host community. The study investigates the direct impact of mining/quarrying on Mpape residents and on the sust...