Political leaders all over the world are calling for strategic autonomy. The removal of critical trade dependencies has become a guiding principle in most policy proposals, including the EU's new industrial strategy. In making these decisions, it is important for policymakers to understand the...

The paper deals with the topic of natural resource revenue management and the institutional background, it researches the impact of the institutional environment on a particular part of resource governance, the revenue governance. The Resource Governance Index is used as the crucial concept for...

In this working paper, we explore these questions based on analysis of a dataset of mining and mineral exploration projects covering all the major commodities or commodity groups in six Arctic countries or territories - Canada, Greenland, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Alaska. We do so through an...

Policies to address environmental and natural resource management are often implemented at the group level. The defining feature of such policies is that penalties or rewards are based on group rather than individual performance, or rights are allocated to a group rather than to individuals....

Die kommende Bundesregierung muss aus ambitionierten Zielen eine erfolgreiche Ressourcen- und Klimapolitik machen und dabei alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger mitnehmen – so das Fazit des Zukunftsimpulses des Wuppertal Instituts zur Bundestagswahl 2021. Es zeigt, welche Maßnahmen notwendig sind,...

We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere in the country. Leaders’ birth regions also benefit, but only in autocratic...

Um das nötige Wissen für eine Ressourcenwende zu generieren und zu verbinden, sind - angesichts der Komplexität des Themas und der Vielfalt von Akteuren und Interessen - transdisziplinäre Forschungsprozesse unabdinglich. In einem transdisziplinären Setting kommen ForscherInnen und...

This paper extends the classical exhaustible-resource/stock-pollution model with the irreversibility of pollution decay. Within this framework, we answer the question how the potential irreversibility of pollution affects the extraction path. We investigate the conditions under which the economy...

We investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military dictatorships. Nondemocratic regimes need the use of force in order to remain in power, but this creates a political moral hazard problem' a strong military may not simply work as an...

This paper reviews some reasons why natural resource abundance and extensive agriculture appear to impede economic growth around the world. The paper presents empirical, cross-sectional evidence of various aspects of this relationship in the transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe and...

This open access book questions the stereotype depicting all Gulf (GCC) economies as not sustainable, and starts a critical discussion of what these economies and polities should do to guarantee themselves a relatively stable future. Volatile international oil markets and the acceleration of the...

"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and...

Underlying the management of revenues from natural resource extraction is a set of assumptions about how abundant and how valuable these resources are. Nevertheless, existing approaches to measuring the value of extractive resources are seriously flawed. This paper proposes two avenues for...

This How to Note provides operational guidance for policymakers and IMF staff teams on designing-or revising-a fiscal strategy in resource-rich countries (RRC). Properly managed, resource revenue can support fiscal sustainability and development and equity objectives. Resource revenues also...

"The Tía María project by Southern Copper Peru is one of the most protracted and violent resource conflicts in Peru. It began in 2009 when Southern presented its first environmental impact assessment to develop an open-pit copper mine near the Valle del Tambo (Tambo Valley) area in the...

Was rare Rohstoffe mit unserem Wohlstand zu tun haben -- Rohstoffe, die über unsere Zukunft entscheiden -- Deutschland am Rohstofftropf -- Woher die Rohstoffe der Zukunft kommen -- Was getan werden muss.

"Eighty years after oil was first discovered in Qatar, a small nation often ignored in favor of its richer and larger Gulf neighbors, it is now an energy behemoth exporting vast amounts of liquefied natural gas, condensates, refined products, petrochemicals, and fertilizers. The country also...

This chapter examines the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a public-private regulatory partnership that jointly creates and oversees transparency and accountability standards in the extractive sector. The chapter argues that EITI has added something new to the landscape of...

Strategies for increasing production of goods from working and natural systems have raised concerns that the diversity of species on which these services depend may be eroding. This loss of natural capital threatens to homogenize global food supplies and compromise the stability of human...

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. This book presents research on how to better manage the revenues and opportunities associated with natural resources.

The paper reviews the debate about transparency in extractive industry commodities trade. It examines the obstacles to improved transparency. A critical review of the experience with estimating losses from a lack of transparency concludes that many of the published estimates of losses from...

Esta Guía Metodológica presenta la aplicación práctica del enfoque del “Nexo entre Agua, Energía y Alimentación”. Este documento tiene dos objetivos principales. El primero es fortalecer las capacidades institucionales y normativas de los gobiernos de la región de América Latina y el...

The natural resource and right to development dilemma / Serges Djoyou Kamga and Carol Chi Ngang -- Sustainable right to development governance of natural resources in Africa / -- Carol Chi Ngang -- Loss, anguish and postponement: The story of African development, natural resource ownership and...

"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...

The research setting and conducting research "at home" -- The commodity chain of river sand and the ecological consequences of river-sand mining -- Government policies and the commodification of river sand -- State ownership and the governmental management of river sand -- Zhuang Villages'...