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Author : Albert M. Church
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4350917
Author : Abiodun Alao
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1580462677
The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa.
Author : William Derman,Rie Odgaard,Espen Sjaastad
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074272561
This is an examination of the broader context for the re-emergence of land reform and resource conflicts in Africa. Efforts to change the race based systems of land ownership and land tenure in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe have pushed land issues to the forefront of social and economic discourses in Africa. This collection examines the broader context for the re- emergence of land reform and resource conflicts.
Author : Ian Bannon,Paul Collier
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821355031
Research carried out by the World Bank on the root causes of conflict and civil war finds that a developing country's economic dependence on natural resources or other primary commodities is strongly associated with the risk level for violent conflict. This book brings together a collection of reports and case studies that explore what the international community in particular can do to reduce this risk.; The text explains the links between natural resources and conflict and examines the impact of resource dependence on economic performance, governance, secessionist movements and revel financing. It then explores avenues for international action - from financial and resource reporting procedures and policy recommendations to commodity tracking systems and enforcement instruments, including sanctions, certification requirements, aid conditionality, legislative and judicial instruments.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : OCLC:878114465
Author : Howard Whitton
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062439727
Conflicts of interest in both the public and private sectors have become a major matter of public concern world-wide. The OECD Guidelines define a conflict of interest as occurring when a public official has private-capacity interests which could improperly influence the performance of their official duties and responsibilities. However, identifying a specific conflict of interest in practice can be difficult. And resolving the conflicting interests appropriately in a particular case is something that most people find even more challenging. The Toolkit focuses on specific techniques, resources and strategies for: Identifying, managing and preventing conflict-of-interest situations more effectively; and Increasing integrity in official decision-making, which might be compromised by a conflict of interest. This Toolkit provides non-technical, practical help to enable officials to recognise problematic situations and help them to ensure that integrity and reputation are not compromised. The tools themselves are provided in generic form. They are based on examples of sound conflict-of-interest policy and practice drawn from various OECD member and non-member countries. They have been designed for adaptation to suit countries with different legal and administrative systems. FURTHER READING: Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service: OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences
Author : Alexandra Magnólia Dias
Publisher : Centro de Estudos Internacionais
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789898862471
This book brings to fruition the research done during the CEA-ISCTE project ‘’Monitoring Conflicts in the Horn of Africa’’, reference PTDC/AFR/100460/2008. The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) provided funding for this project. The chapters are based on first-hand data collected through fieldwork in the region’s countries between 4 January 2010 and 3 June 2013. The project’s team members and consultants debated their final research findings in a one-day Conference at ISCTE-IUL on 29 April 2013. The following authors contributed to the project’s final publication: Alexandra M. Dias, Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho, Aleksi Ylönen, Ana Elisa Cascão, Elsa González Aimé, Manuel João Ramos, Patrick Ferras, Pedro Barge Cunha and Ricardo Real P. Sousa.
Author : Astad Pastakia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Community development
ISBN : 8182910404
This book assumes critical importance for Community Based Natural Resource Management, given the growing manifestation of conflicts at the grassroots level over the equitable ownership, use and control of increasingly scarce natural resources.
Author : Patricia I. Vasquez
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820345611
"For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"-the paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between the predatory behavior of armed rebel organizations and the abundant natural resources that funded their existence. Patricia Vasquez notes that oil busts and civil wars associated with the resource curse were quite different from the now-predominant local hydrocarbons disputes that are multiplying rapidly in Latin America. These more recent, localized disputes-over land, population displacement, water contamination, oil jobs that are promised but never materialize, etc.-primarily involve Indigenous groups with a different social and cultural identity from the rest of the population. Vasquez spent fifteen years making regular field visits to the oil-producing regions of Latin America and conducting hundreds of interviews with the various stakeholders in these local conflicts. Her book, based on this field research, analyzes the dynamics that characterize each of fifty-five social and environmental conflicts related to oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia). She is interested not in promulgating a new theory of conflict but in examining the triggers of local hydrocarbons disputes and providing policy recommendations to resolve or prevent them"--
Author : Kylie McKenna
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317667384
This book examines the possibilities and limitations of corporate social responsibility in minimising the violent conflict often associated with natural resource exploitation. Through detailed and penetrating empirical analysis, the author skilfully asks why previous corporate social responsibility practices have not always achieved their aims. This theme is explored though an analysis of two of the most complex and protracted conflicts linked to natural resources in the Asia Pacific region: Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) and West Papua (Indonesia). Drawing on first-hand accounts of corporate executives and communities affected by resource conflict, this book documents the translation of global corporate social responsibility into local peace. Covering topics as diverse as post-colonialism, law, revenue distribution, security, the environment and customary reconciliation, this ambitious text reveals how and why current corporate social responsibility initiatives may be unable to assist extractive companies avoid social conflict. The study concludes that this is attributable to the failure of extractive companies to respond to the social and environmental issues of most concern to local host communities. The idea is that extractive companies could actively contribute to peace building if they were to engage with the interdependencies between business activity and the root causes of conflict. What sets this book apart is that it offers a holistic framework for extractive companies to engage with the complexity of resource conflict. ‘Interdependent Engagement’ is an integrated model of corporate social responsibility that encourages extractive companies to deal with the underlying causes of resource conflict, rather than applying solutions or critiques of their symptoms.
Author : Macartan Humphreys,Jeffrey D. Sachs,Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231512107
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with large endowments of natural resources, such as oil and gas, often do worse than their poorer neighbors. Their resource wealth frequently leads to lower growth rates, greater volatility, more corruption, and, in extreme cases, devastating civil wars. In this volume, leading economists, lawyers, and political scientists address the fundamental channels generated by this wealth and examine the major decisions a country must make when faced with an abundance of a natural resource. They identify such problems as asymmetric bargaining power, limited access to information, the failure to engage in long-term planning, weak institutional structures, and missing mechanisms of accountability. They also provide a series of solutions, including recommendations for contracting with oil companies and allocating revenue; guidelines for negotiators; models for optimal auctions; and strategies to strengthen state-society linkages and public accountability. The contributors show that solutions to the resource curse do exist; yet, institutional innovations are necessary to align the incentives of key domestic and international actors, and this requires fundamental political changes and much greater levels of transparency than currently exist. It is becoming increasingly clear that past policies have not provided the benefits they promised. Escaping the Resource Curse lays out a path for radically improving the management of the world's natural resources.
Author : E. Gunilla Almered Olsson,Pernille Gooch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1138576883
The sustainability paradox and the conflicts on use of natural resources / E. Gunilla Almered Olsson and Pernille Gooch -- Natural conflicts in the capitalocene / Pernille Gooch, Anders Burman and E. Gunilla Almered Olsson -- Water, conflicts and sustainable development / Sofie Hellberg -- Forest-related community-outsider conflicts through the lens of property rights, access and power / Josefin Gooch -- Conflicts in the management of fisheries / Staffan Larsson -- The raptor and the lamb : on human-wildlife conflicts / Eileen O'Rourke -- From dystopia to utopia and back again : the case of the Van Gujjars pastoralists in the Indian Himalaya / Pernille Gooch -- Undermining the resource ground : conflicts connected to natural resource exploitation experienced by Sami reindeer herders and Adnyamathanha traditional owners / Kristina Sehlin MacNeil -- Environmental justice in a post-agreement Colombia : peace for an ecologically and socially sustainable land-use? / Torsten Krause -- To change, or not to change? : the transboundary water question in the Nile Basin / Ana Cascão -- Benefit sharing for risk reduction and fostering sustainable development : current understanding and mechanisms / Shivcharn Dhillion -- Power and knowledge use in coastal conflict resolution / Olga Stepanova -- Environmental conflicts : towards theoretical analyses of social-ecological systems / Karl Bruckmeier -- The transformative potential of the food system concept : sustainability conflicts or sustainability transitions? / E. Gunilla Almered Olsson.
Author : Kelechi Johnmary Ani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811973437
The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources. Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned, explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government officials. Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the confrontation could be between them and other rival local resource actors in the informal sector of their country’s economy bearing in mind that the resources within their jurisdiction have become the central determinant of national commonwealth. It is at that state of desperado to control access, extraction and sale of natural resources in a State, by different armed groups that the process of natural resources extraction qualifies as the most visible cause of conflicts and crises around the African continent that is the centrepiece of the book. This is quite understandable given that mineral resource is a gift of nature; and nature is that phenomenon that every human, group and nation claim to represent, or, believe to represent them.
Author : United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210601832
This guide collects and summarizes good practices on the successful mediation of resource conflicts. It draws on the field experiences of mediators and mediation experts, specifically those with natural resource expertise. It also features lessons learned from UNEP’s work on environmental diplomacy in different conflict-affected countries, with a particular focus on how to use impartial technical knowledge to equalize stakeholder information in a mediation process.
Author : Yukiko Nishikawa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811688188
This edited book is written by six authors from Asia and Africa. The individual authors focus on their own country's case or cases that they have been working on. The book features local conflicts in six countries in Asia and Africa and identifies how the local conflicts are affected by the forces of globalization. Cases include Nigeria's oil-related conflicts, the Democratic Republic of Congo's timber conflicts, continuing instability in Mozanbique, Thailand's conflict with regard to AIDS medicine, Myanmar's local conflicts after its reforms, and the Afghanistan’s conflicts over minerals. From these diverse case studies, the book examines how globalization and international politics affect local politics and conflicts, and vice versa. Even seemingly internal conflicts are shown to be significantly influenced by globalization forces and to create new dynamism in local politics. While there are other books that explore globalization and conflicts, many of them are conceptually organized with a small number of case studies. The present volume examines local conflicts in relation to globalization and demonstrates how structural inequality vis-a-vis weak stateness and statehood are significantly affected by global political economy.