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Étiqueté : Natural Resources

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Want, waste or war? The global resource nexus and the struggle for land, energy, food, water and minerals

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains…

Ouvrages

Confronting the curse: The economics and geopolitics of natural resource governance

Countries blessed with abundant natural resources often seek financial and political power from their supposedly lucky status. But the potentially negative impact of natural resources on development of poor countries is captured in the phrase “the resource curse.” Instead of success and prosperity, producers of gold, oil, rubber, sugar, and other commodities—many in the least developed parts of Africa and Asia—often remain mired in poverty and plagued by economic mismanagement, political authoritarianism, foreign exploitation, and violent conflict….

Energie / Ouvrages

Resource Efficiency Complexity and the Commons

The efficient use of natural resources is key to a sustainable economy, and yet the complexities of the physical aspects of resource efficiency are poorly understood. In this challenging book, the author proposes a major advance in our understanding of this topic by analysing resource efficiency and efficiency gains from the perspective of common pool resources, applying this idea particularly to water resources and its use in irrigated agriculture…

Energie / Ouvrages climat

Oil to cash: fighting the resource curse through cash transfers

What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? How should it spend the subsequent cash windfall? How can it protect against corruption? How can citizens truly benefit from national wealth? With many of the world’s poorest and most fragile states suddenly joining the ranks of oil and gas producers, these are pressing policy questions…

Articles de recherche, working papers, rapports, thèses / Climat / Energie

International Resource Politics. New challenges demanding new governance approaches for a green economy

This paper from Heinrich Böll Foundation and Wuppertal Institut underlines a new dimension of international relations and pleads for new approaches, called international resource politics, which can be used for ongoing debates concerning green economy and transition strategies…