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Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment : Treaties, Endangered Species, Dam Removal, Climate Change, and Beyond (Tables and Preface)

Blumm, Michael C. - 2022

The law and policy of salmon protection and restoration are complex, and matters surrounding salmon implicate topics as varied as Indian treaty fishing rights, dam management and removal, international treaties, predator control, and climate change. Pacific Salmon Law and the Environment...

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‘No Ordinary Lawsuit’ : Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine

Blumm, Michael C. - 2017

In November 2016, just two days after the election of President Donald Trump, the federal district court in Oregon handed down Juliana v. Obama, a remarkable decision that refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by youth plaintiffs who claimed that federal government's fossil fuel policies over the...

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Poor institutions, rich mines : resource curse and the origins of the Sicilian mafia

Buonanno, Paolo; Durante, Ruben; Prarolo, Giovanni; … - 2012 - This version: August, 2012

This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe...

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Global boom, local impacts : mining revenues and subnational outcomes in Peru 2007 - 2011

Zambrano, Omar; Robles, Marcos; Laos, Denisse - 2014

explore the case of Peru, a mining-rich middle income country where -exploiting a unique data set constructed for this purpose …- we are able to assess systematic differences in district-level welfare outcomes between mining and non-mining districts …. We find evidence that the condition of being mining-abundant district have a significant impact on the pace of reduction …

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Avenues to maximizing value added from critical minerals

Pietrobelli, Carlo; Valverde, Jorge - 2025

downward and/or moving upward along the mining value chain. These depend on the comparative advantages of the country and the …

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Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse : Reconciling a Conundrum

Collier, Paul; Goderis, Benedikt - 2009

Currently, evidence on the ‘resource curse’ yields a conundrum. While there is much cross-section evidence to support the curse hypothesis, time series analyses using vector autoregressive (VAR) models have found that commodity booms raise the growth of commodity exporters. This paper adopts...

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