Publications

Resources and Communities in the Department of Mining Engineering

Publications

Altingoz, M., N.M. Smith, S. Ali, S. Duzgun, P.F. Syvrud. 2019. Color and Local Heritage in Gemstone Branding: A Comparative Study of Blue Zoisite (Tanzanite) and Color Change Diaspore (Zultanite/Csarite). Extractive Industries and Society.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.05.013

Smith, Nicole M. 2019. “Our gold is dirty, but we want to improve”: Challenges to addressing mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Peru. Journal of Cleaner Production. 222: 646-654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.076

Smith, Nicole M., J. Lucena, J. Smith, O.J. Baena Restrepo, G. Aristizabal, A. Delgado. A. 2018. Framework for Research and Education on Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Latin America. International Journal of Georesources and Environment.4(3): 99-104. https://doi.org/10.15273/ijge.2018.03.017

Smith, Nicole M., J.M. Smith, L.A. Battalora, B.A. Teschner. 2018. Industry-University Partnerships: Engineering Education and Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice. 144(3). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.1943-5541.0000367

Smith, Jessica M. and N.M. Smith. 2018. Engineering and the Politics of Commensuration in the Mining and Petroleum Industries. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society. 4: 67-84. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2018.211

Teschner, Benjamin, N.M. Smith, T. Borillo-Hutter, Z. Quaghe John, A. Wong. 2017. How efficient are they really? A minimally invasive testing method of small-scale gold miners’ gravity separation systems in the Guianas. Minerals Engineering, 105: 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2017.01.005

Smith, Nicole M., J.M. Smith, Z. Quaghe John, B. 2017. Teschner.Promises and Perceptions in the Guianas: The Making of an Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Reserve. Resources Policy, 51: 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.11.006

Smith, Jessica M., C.J. McClelland, N.M. Smith. 2017. Engineering Students’ Views of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Case Study from Petroleum Engineering. Science and Engineering Ethics. 23(6): 1775-1790. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-016-9859-x

Smith, Nicole M., S. Ali, C. Bofinger, and N. Collins. 2016. Human Health and Safety in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: An Integrated Approach to Risk Mitigation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 129: 43-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.04.124

Smith, Nicole M. 2016. “No Cow Makes This Sort of Profit”: Capital, Success, and Maasai Gemstone Traders in Tanzania. The Extractive Industries and Society, 3(2): 442-449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2016.02.008

Smith, Nicole M. 2015. Gender and Livelihood Diversification: Maasai Women’s Market Activities in Northern Tanzania. The Journal of Development Studies, 15(3): 305-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2014.957278

McCabe, J. Terrence, N.M. Smith, P.W. Leslie, and A. Telligman. 2014. Livelihood Diversification through Migration among a Pastoral People: A Case Study of Maasai from Northern Tanzania. Human Organization 73(4): 389-400.

Smith, Nicole M. 2007. Review of Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World. Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans, eds. Culture and Agriculture 29(1): 49-50.

Galvin, K.A., J. Ellis, R.B. Boone, A.L. Magennis, N.M. Smith, S.J. Lynn and P. Thornton. 2002. Compatibility of Pastoralism and Conservation? A Test Case Using Integrated Assessment in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. In, Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples. Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development.D. Chatty and M. Colester, eds. Berghahn, Oxford.

Galvin, K.A., R.B. Boone, N.M. Smith and S.J. Lynn. 2001. Impacts of Climate Variability on East African Pastoralists: Linking Social Science and Remote Sensing. Climate Research 19:161-172. https://doi.org/10.3354/cr019161

Boone, R.B., K.A. Galvin, N.M. Smith and S.J. Lynn. 2000. Generalizing El Nino Effects Upon Maasai Livestock Using Hierarchical Clusters of Vegetation Patterns. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 66(6): 737-744.

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