Product Description: This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change...read more

Product Description: For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber –the stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially challenging...read more

Product Description: Beyond the Biophysical provides a broad overview of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) scholarship and practice that lies beyond the biophysical, emphasizing instead epistemological, cultural, and political foundations of NRM...read more

Product Description: This United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report aims to summarize current knowledge on the links between environment, conflict and peacebuilding through thirteen field-based case studies. Based on its analysis, UNEP's report draws three key conclusions for future UN peacemaking and peacebuilding operations: Natural resources and the environment can be involved in all phases of the conflict cycle - from contributing to the outbreak and perpetuation of conflict and to spoiling the prospects for peace...read more

Product Description: This United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report aims to summarize current knowledge on the links between environment, conflict and peacebuilding through thirteen field-based case studies. Based on its analysis, UNEP's report draws three key conclusions for future UN peacemaking and peacebuilding operations: Natural resources and the environment can be involved in all phases of the conflict cycle - from contributing to the outbreak and perpetuation of conflict and to spoiling the prospects for peace...read more