TY - JOUR

T1 - Illegal Ecologies

T2 - From Irregular Mining to the Dumping of E-waste

AU - Vigh, Henrik

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This article focusses on an inter-disciplinary and mixed-methods study of the criticalcircuit of minerals from irregular mines to e-waste dumps in Ghana. The move towards greenenergy and climate smart solutions has resulted in an increasing global demand for the mineralsneeded for low-carbon technology. This surge has caused a boom in irregular mining activities andtrade in the Global South as the needed resources are moved north for inclusion in electroniccomponents and products. Ironically, when depleted, these items often end up back in the sameregion as where the resources used to produce them were extracted. Shipped and traded as second-hand products they a

AB - This article focusses on an inter-disciplinary and mixed-methods study of the criticalcircuit of minerals from irregular mines to e-waste dumps in Ghana. The move towards greenenergy and climate smart solutions has resulted in an increasing global demand for the mineralsneeded for low-carbon technology. This surge has caused a boom in irregular mining activities andtrade in the Global South as the needed resources are moved north for inclusion in electroniccomponents and products. Ironically, when depleted, these items often end up back in the sameregion as where the resources used to produce them were extracted. Shipped and traded as second-hand products they a

U2 - 10.26300/h0w8-az42

DO - 10.26300/h0w8-az42

M3 - Journal article

VL - 4

SP - 29

EP - 35

JO - Commodity Frontiers Journal

JF - Commodity Frontiers Journal

IS - Fall

ER -