Understanding the role of large energy corporations in society is a crucial, yet challenging task for the social science of energy. Ethnographic methods ...

Introduction: Recovering power from energy - reconsidering the linkages between energy and developm

This Working Paper contains a full report from a Seminar on Regional Energy Co-operation, Luanda, 12-14 February 2002. Norwegian involvement in the energy ...

This energy review examines the gas and power sectors in terms of major actors, current and potential output, generation, transmission and distribution ...

In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer ...

Our recent research indicates that increased corruption brings increased foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industries. Moreover, corruption ...

The East African Countries (EAC) Secretariat’s Energy Division supports regional knowledge coordination and has become a common forum for exchange ...

The key to addressing climate change and sustainable development around the globe is to first address the relationship between political and financial power and energy use and resources. Meet the editors John-Andrew McNeish, Axel Borchgrevink and Owen Logan.

A travel through the richest oil countries in the world and an analysis of Caspian energy politics.

How do different models of ownership over natural resources affect poverty levels and social conflicts in Latin America? Who stand to gain and who stand to lose from nationalizing natural resources? And what do "natural resources" really mean for different groups in society?

A baseline survey was conducted in the Hararghe region in Ethiopia in 1989 to identify constraints to agricultural production and environmental protection ...

Infrastructure has remained a main focus for SADC in its efforts to advanceregional cooperation in Southern Africa. Development of Angola’s infrastructureis ...

The major objective of the Programme WTO/GATS and Economic Development: Key to "the new economy" is to produce new theoretical and empirical insights ...

This report - Forward-Looking Review of the Regional Strategy on Scaling Up Access to Modern Energy Services in the East African Community - reviewed ...

Many natural resource abundant countries have established sovereign wealth funds as part of their strategy of managing the resource wealth. The paper ...

Latin America Transformed? John-Andrew McNeish Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Develop

Tanzania has recently discovered large petroleum and natural gas reserves, boosting its natural resource stocks and potential future revenue flows. Whether ...

A number of studies suggest that natural resources can have a negative impact on the developing prospects of countries. Empirical results suggest that ...

Norwegian energy companies abroad. Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility. When Norwegian energy companies invest ...

Struggles for natural resources have taken place throughout the tumultuous history of Latin America. However, in recent decades a new wave of conflicts ...