Natural resource-based development in Africa : panacea or Pandora's box? /

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"There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, over a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organiza...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Andrews, Nathan (Editor ), Grant, J. Andrew, 1974- (Editor ), Ovadia, Jesse Salah (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Temas:
Natural resources > Africa.
Natural resources > Africa > Management.
Economic development > Africa.
Resource curse > Africa.
Ressources naturelles > Afrique.
Ressources naturelles > Afrique > Gestion.
Développement économique > Afrique.
Malédiction des ressources > Afrique.
Environmental policy & protocols.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
Economic development
Natural resources
Natural resources > Management
Resource curse
Africa
Environmental policy & protocols
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • SECTION I Introduction
  • 1 An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
  • SECTION II Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels
  • 2 Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: "New Governance" Insights from South Africa
  • 3 The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana's "Oil City": How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi
  • 4 Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana's Oil
  • 5 Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda
  • 6 Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors
  • SECTION III Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement
  • 7 Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development
  • 8 "The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths": An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism
  • 9 Promoting Mining Local Procurement through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO's Eforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry
  • 10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa
  • 11 "Community Development" in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project
  • SECTION IV Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus
  • 12 Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
  • 13 Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • 14 China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing's Foreign Policy in Africa
  • SECTION V Concluding Remarks and Reflections
  • 15 Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s
  • Contributors
  • Index

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