Assessing the role of top-down techniques for improving regional estimates of artisanal and small-scale gold mining mercury emissions

ASGM is the world’s largest source of anthropogenic Hg emissions and is common in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and East Asia. However, the amount of mercury emitted from ASGM and contributing to global mercury emissions is subject to substantial uncertainty. Bottom-up studies have...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dlamini, Thandolwethu
Other Authors: Selin, Noelle
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147481