Diamonds, Rice, and a 'maggi Cube'
Title | Diamonds, Rice, and a 'maggi Cube' PDF eBook |
Author | Steven van Bockstael |
Publisher | Academia Press |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9038218729 |
The economics of artisanal diamond mining from the Belgian government funded Egmont Artisanal Diamond Mining Project
University Press of New England: Fall 2012 New Titles
Title | University Press of New England: Fall 2012 New Titles PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 68 |
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Sustainable Management of Luxury
Title | Sustainable Management of Luxury PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel Angel Gardetti |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 2017-02-23 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9811029172 |
As this book is the first book worldwide in the "sustainable" management of luxury area, it highlights key aspects in the sustainable management of luxury based on presentations using different approaches, whether reflexive, empirical, hands-on or applied theory and cases.
The Political Economy of the Kimberley Process
Title | The Political Economy of the Kimberley Process PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Munier |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2020-09-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108879500 |
In the late 1990s, the issue of diamonds contributing to conflict began to receive global attention. In response, the Kimberley Process, an international agreement drawn up in 2003, was implemented to reduce the trade of conflict diamonds and provide a way to certify the global diamond trade. This study looks at the political economy of resource-wealthy states in Africa to understand responses to the Kimberley Process, asking why some African states have higher levels of compliance and co-operation than others. Using cross-country comparisons to explain differing state policies and outcomes, Nathan Munier explores whether domestic, private economic actors matter in how international agreements operate. In doing so, he asks why states that regularly ignore international agreements will use scarce resources to raise their level of compliance with the Kimberley Process. Focusing on the domestic political economy of states, in contrast to past theories of state responses to international agreements, Munier finds that economic dependence and the preferences of private actors are essential in understanding the variation of state responses to international agreements.
Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining
Title | Property Rights and Governance in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Huggins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2020-06-29 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000011666 |
Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world. This comprehensive volume examines mining, particularly what is often called ‘Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining’, from a perspective of governance and rights. It focuses on rights to land, natural resources, and other forms of material ‘property’. Many projects, policies, and laws targeting artisanal and small-scale mining are embedded in problematic conceptual and institutional frameworks that implicitly stigmatise and discipline artisanal and small-scale miners. This collection takes a critical look at notions of property to destabilise some of these frameworks. The chapters in this book are notable for their recognition of the agency of artisanal miners and ‘local communities’ within the uneven hierarchies in which they are embedded, and their acknowledgement of the difficulties of state regulation of such a complex set of issues. The authors use a variety of theoretical tools, engaging with political economy, political ecology, classical economic theory, and socio-cultural concepts derived from ethnographic methods. This book includes insightful case studies from Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Mongolia, South Africa, and Zambia, and is an important resource for academics, development practitioners, and policy-makers. It was originally published online as a special issue of Third World Thematics.
Handbook of Sustainable Politics and Economics of Natural Resources
Title | Handbook of Sustainable Politics and Economics of Natural Resources PDF eBook |
Author | Tsani, Stella |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2021-12-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1789908779 |
This timely Handbook draws together insightful analyses of natural resource management challenges and solutions in the face of sustainable development targets and a changing global climate.
Mining Africa
Title | Mining Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Warikandwa, Tapiwa V. |
Publisher | Langaa RPCIG |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2017-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9956764329 |
This book is a pacesetter in matters of mining and the environment in Africa from multidisciplinary and spatio-temporal perspectives. The book approaches mining from the perspectives of law, politics, archaeology, anthropology, African studies, geography, human ecology, sociology, history, economics and development. It interrogates mining and environment from the perspectives of customary law as well as from the perspectives of Euro-modern laws. In this sense, the book straddles precolonial, colonial and postcolonial mining and environmental perspectives. In all this, it maintains a Pan-Africanist perspective that also speaks to contemporary debates on African Renaissance and to the unity of Africa. From scrutinising the lived realities of African miners who are often insensitively and unjustly addressed as “illegal” miners, the book also interrogates transnational mining corporations; matters of corporate social responsibility as well as matters of tax evasions by transnational corporations whose commitment to accountability to African governments is questioned. With both theoretical chapters and chapter based on empirical studies on mining and the environment across the African continent, the book provides a much needed holistic, one stop shop for scholars, activists, researchers and policy makers who need a comprehensive treatise on African mining and the environment. The book comes at the right time when matters of African mining and environment are increasingly coming to the fore in the light of discourses about the new 21st century scramble for African resources, in which big transnational corporations and nations are jostling to suck Africa dry in their race to control planetary resources. It is a book that speaks to contemporary broader issues of (de-)coloniality and transformation of African minds and African environmental resources.