"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"本研究结合文献证据、混合方法、 pearsons卡方(X²)和相关分析。选择农户采用系统随机抽样。725个家庭的数据使用SPSS进行分析。教育程度假设与农民没有关系。加纳大型采矿项目的风险认知< / em >进行了测试。结果表明，大规模采矿在农民心中既有正面的形象，也有负面的形象。Farmers’教育程度与他们在采矿项目到来之前对环境和自然资源状况的了解程度密切相关[Pearson’s (X²) = 26.743; p = 0.024; Pearson's (r) = 0.791; p = 0.010]. Statistical evidence exists to support the claim that local communities protested against the mining project due to their ability to anticipate adverse effects of the project on environmental quality. Education significantly influenced farmers’ ability to link sources of livelihood to environmental and resource protection [Pearson's (X²) = 25.516, p = 0.043; Pearson's (r) = 0.640; p = 0.036]. Farmers’ risk perceptions of large scale mining as a threat to: community’s natural capital; traditional systems; environmental and social protection regime; established administrative procedures and good conducts of public officials; as well as being a threat to rural livelihood have serious implications for achieving the goals of sustainable mining in Ghana. Nonetheless, farmers associated mining as agent of economic development, and education significantly influenced this assessment [Pearson’s (X²) = 28.093, p = 0.021; Pearson’s (r) = 0.077; p = 0.041]. This paper concludes that education is a significant predictor in risk perception assessment. Robust environmental and social protection regimes, strong public institutions and improved socio-economic status are good predictors of farmers’ risk perceptions of mining.