rural South Africa”
AUTHORS Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor
ARTICLE INFO
Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor (2017). Socio-economic development through the exploitation of natural resources in rural South Africa. Environmental Economics, 8(4), 44-52. doi:10.21511/ee.08(4).2017.06
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ee.08(4).2017.06
RELEASED ON Thursday, 07 December 2017 RECEIVED ON Sunday, 22 October 2017 ACCEPTED ON Thursday, 30 November 2017
LICENSE This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
JOURNAL "Environmental Economics"
ISSN PRINT 1998-6041
ISSN ONLINE 1991-7074
PUBLISHER LLC “Consulting Publishing Company “Business Perspectives”
FOUNDER LLC “Consulting Publishing Company “Business Perspectives”
NUMBER OF REFERENCES
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