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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"resource governance"”.
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Sustaining Peace? Environmental and Natural Resource Governance in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Over the last decade environmental and natural resources governance has received a growing share of attention on the international peacebuilding agenda. Few studies have scrutinized in detail the role of international peacebuilders or whether reforms and policies help or hinder peacebuilding …
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Perceptions and Grievances: Impact of Resource Governance on Protracted Conflicts in Nigeria's Niger Delta
… against perceived unfair allocation of oil resources started peacefully among the Ogoni and a handful of communities in the Niger Delta. Within a decade, it took violent dimensions and spread to other communities in the region. Summary killings, kidnappings of local and expatriate oil …
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The Roles of Local Organizations in Collaborative Resource Governance: A Qualitative Case Study of Lake Associations
… quality degradation, primarily resulting from resource and land-use decisions that introduce excessive amounts of nutrients into the lake system. In many of these communities, local volunteer groups called lake associations work to protect these cherished lake resources. Lake associations and …
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The Rights-Based Approach to Extractive Resource Governance in Nigeria through the Lens of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Lessons from South Africa
… rights based approach to safeguarding extractive resource governance, pertinent to a jurisdiction like Nigeria. Drawing significant lessons from South Africa - due to its proactive legislation imposing human rights compliance on companies - the research examines the potential of implementing the …
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Facilitating participation in natural resource governance in Kenya: a critical review of the extent to which Kenya’s contemporary legal framework enables indigenous community conserved areas
… people and local communities in natural resource governance. Contemporary approaches enable them to define themselves and to own and manage land and natural resources. Domestic policy makers are faced with the challenge of creating national laws and policies to implement this contemporary …
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Customary governance and expressions of living customary law at Dwesa-Cwebe: contributions to small-scale fisheries governance in South Africa
Customary systems of marine resource governance have gained increasing attention internationally in the past three decades. Notwithstanding this, and despite the Constitutional recognition of customary governance and customary law in South Africa, the post-apartheid legislative reforms in the …
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MALLEABLE TERRITORIES: THE POLITICS AND EFFECTS OF MINING GOVERNANCE IN POST-SOVIET GEORGIA
… broader political transition, de-centralizing resource governance toward corporate interests through a territorially based system of extraction licenses. This dissertation investigates the political geographies of Georgia’s resource governance transition, analyzing the politics and effects of …
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Transparency and accountability in the legal framework governing the upstream hydrocarbon industry in Tanzania mainland
… that the slow socio-economic development of resource rich countries may be curbed by the promotion of transparency and accountability in resource governance. There is a universal consensus among politicians, multilateral institutions, corporations, and civil societies that the ‘paradox of …
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Innovation Challenges in NASA’s Planetary Program and a Policy Framework for Sustainable and Equitable Space Resource Utilization
… framework for space exploration and natural resource utilization. The research reviewed existing policies, laws, and guidelines, identifying gaps and inadequacies for space resource governance. Drawing from lessons learned from resource governance on Earth and historical policies, the …
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Influences of customary and statutory governance on sustainable use and livelihoods: The case of baobab, Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe
… in Africa as part of a broader debate on governance approaches for natural resource management. To a large extent, this is in response to a growing voice articulating the need to integrate traditional institutions and customary practices into a more contemporary form of governance for …
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The influence of plural governance systems on rural coastal livelihoods: the case of Kosi Bay
… along the South African coast rely on fisheries resources, forest products and agricultural resources in order to support their livelihoods. These customary livelihoods have continued in many rural areas despite restrictive policies and laws during the colonial and apartheid administrations. More …
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Blue economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas: the case of Mtwara coast, Tanzania
… literature on the political ecology of natural resource governance and blue and green economies. It expands the scholarly debates around the logic behind blue economy, and its impacts on fishing communities’ livelihoods and the environment at large. It locates its discussion on Harvey’s …
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Blue economy investments and injustices around marine protected areas: The case of Mtwara Coast, Tanzania
… literature on the political ecology of natural resource governance and blue and green economies. It expands the scholarly debates around the logic behind blue economy, and its impacts on fishing communities’ livelihoods and the environment at large. It locates its discussion on Harvey’s …
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Elite capture and forest governance in India
Elite capture is a persistent problem in forest governance. Influential and powerful elites often capture a major portion of forest-based benefits due to their well-entrenched structural domination of forest governance. The problem is chronic and many scholars have held it responsible for the …
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Maritime Piracy as a Challenge to Maritime Governance: A Critical Analysis of Counter Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
… Gulf of Guinea, endowed with vital and strategic resources, has for centuries served as an important region economically, socially, and politically. Since 2011, a substantial amount of time, research, human and financial resources have been dedicated towards this region, specifically, towards …
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Nature's contributions to people: socio-economic assessments of strategies to conserve natural capital and guide the sustainable provision and equitable distribution of ecosystem services in developing countries
Natural resources continue to be unsustainably used and their benefits inequitably shared. In many instances economic incentives and resource management approaches have not led to the sustainable use or equitable distribution of the benefits of natural resources such as fisheries and forests. This …
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Analysis of institutional arrangements and common pool resources governance: the case of Lake Tana sub-basin, Ethiopia
Although Common Pool Resources (CPRs) make up a significant share of total income for rural households in Ethiopia and elsewhere in developing world, limited access to these resources and environmental degradation threaten local livelihoods. As a result, the issues of management, governance of CPRs …
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Conservation and resilience to drought: a social-ecological perspective on conservation areas in Kenya's Southern Maasailand
… way today. In examining processes of adaptive governance over recent droughts, this thesis also shows how the current constitution of natural resource governance institutions, and the ways in which they are given authority, have resulted in adaptive systems which are considered to be …
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Not about rules, but about good deals: The political economy of securing inclusive capital investment and transformation in South African mining
… a qualification, at the local level, of the “resource curse” hypothesis. Mining brings benefits in terms of income poverty alleviation and employment. However, the high-low cycles of commodity price booms create employment volatility and exacerbate inequality. Mining investments inherently …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… met with revolution. For both countries, natural resource governance has been a central factor in shaping the contours of contestation. Through a conceptual framing of isolation and post-isolation, the thesis delivers a historically embedded examination of the relationship between international …
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