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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase ...

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

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

If the nuclear framework agreement is to be the start of something bigger, the US and other Western countries need a vision beyond the fight against terrorism, argues Walter Posch at the National Defence Academy in Vienna. Recognizing the role of energy security and economy in the region may be key to long-lasting change.

The main objective of this project is to identify the effects that political instability and corruption have on foreign investment to Bangladesh, ...

ADB, in collaboration with the World Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), and U.K. Department for International Development ...

Jo lengre konflikter varer, jo mer innviklet har de en tendens til å bli og jo mer preges de av at det er ekstremister på alle sider ...

Utviklingspolitikken skal ha et sterkt fokus på miljø og klima. De tre største satsingene er skog, ren energi og klimatilpasning. Hvordan kan utviklingsforskere være relevante premissleverandører for utviklingspolitikken? Hege Hertzberg, Utviklingspolitisk direktør i UD, Ottar Mæstad, Direktør ved CMI, og Eystein Jansen, Direktør ved Bjerknessenteret innleder til diskusjon.