Corruption, Natural Resources and Development: From Resource Curse to Political Ecology
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Author(s): Aled Williams and Philippe Le Billon
Date: 2017
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance, Land, Renewable Resources
Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, Sierra Leone, Tanzania
This book provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political ecology approaches, this volume provides a series of nuanced and policy-relevant case studies analyzing patterns of corruption around natural resources and options to reach anti-corruption goals. The potential for new variations of the resource curse in the forest and urban land sectors and the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies in resource sectors are considered in depth. Corruption in oil, gas, mining, fisheries, biofuel, wildlife, forestry and urban land are all covered, and potential solutions discussed.