This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and...

1. Extractive industries, socio-environmental conflicts and political economic transformations in Andean America / Anthony Bebbington -- 2. The political economy of managing extractives in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru / Jose Carlos Orihuela and Rosemary Thorp -- 3. The politics of extractive...