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Compendium of natural resource management

Edited Book | Apr 2010

This compendium was put together to be used in teaching natural resource management. For this purpose the selection of articles and book chapters was ...

Digitizing the landscape: Technology to improve integrity in natural resource management

U4 Brief | Mar 2017

Many information technology initiatives have emerged in recent years with the aim of improving natural resource management. These take a variety of technological ...

natural resource management, technology

Living with the commons: Local institutions for natural resource management

CMI Report | Jan 1995

Garrett Hardin's essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” has for almost three decades stimulated research on common property regimes. This report ...

Institution building, Property rights, Resources management, Shared natural resources

At the extremes: Corruption in natural resource management revisited

U4 Brief | Sep 2016

natural resource management

Collaboration against corruption?: Multistakeholder groups in natural resource management

U4 Issue | Jun 2011

Multistakeholder processes – involving representatives from civil society, government and the private sector — are increasingly viewed by ...

natural resource management

Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers

Journal Article | Oct 2009

Corruption is the main reason why resource-rich countries perform badly in economic terms. Corruption in resource-rich countries takes two main forms, ...

Resource curse, corruption

Monitoring aid: Lessons from a natural resources programme in Tanzania

U4 Practice Insight | Jul 2009

This Practice Insight describes the Norwegian Embassy’s decision in 2006 to independently evaluate their long-term support to the Management of ...

practice insight, nrm, natural resource management, monitoring aid, corruption in aid, , tanzania

The extractive industries transparency initiative: Impact, effectiveness, and where next for expanding natural resource governance?

U4 Brief | May 2014

The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of initiatives to improve the governance of the extractives sector. Starting with the Kimberly Process Certification ...

natural resource management, extractive industries, oil, gas, minerals

Does aid work? Reflections on a natural resources programme in Tanzania

U4 Issue | Mar 2009

A former programme officer at the Norwegian Embassy in Tanzania considers challenges to aid effectiveness in a major natural resources programme. After ...

NRM, Aid, Budget support, natural resource management, corruption in aid, Tanzania

Multistakeholder groups for better sector performance: A key to fight corruption in natural resource governance?

Journal Article | Jan 2013

Multistakeholder processes – involving representatives from civil society, government and the private sector — are increasingly viewed as ...

Rethinking natural resource conflicts

Report in External Series | Nov 2010

In this thematic paper I will reconsider the connections between natural resources and conflict. Aimed at producing a state of the art review of the research ...

Natural Resource, Conflict

Resource curse

Book Chapter | Oct 2014

Resource curse Ivar Kolstad Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3rd edition, Volume 6 International M

The Economics of shifting cultivation and smallholder rubber production in Kec. Seberida, Riau, Sumatra

Book Chapter | Jan 1994

(Proccedings of the NORINDRA seminar on rainforest and resource management, 25-26 May 1993)

Corruption in Natural Resource Management - An Introduction

U4 Brief | Feb 2008

Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed ...

corruption, oil, forestry, natural resources, anti-corruption, natural resource management, World

The global participation backlash: Implications for natural resource initiatives

U4 Brief | Jun 2017

Civil society organizations can help to ensure good governance over natural resources as members of global multi-stakeholder initiatives like the Extractive ...

natural resource management

What sustains sustainable development? Natural-resource management and popular participation in Tanzania

Journal Article | Jan 1990

What sustains sustainable development? Natural-resource management and popular participation in Tan

Identifying and dealing with corruption in natural resource management

Project | Sep - Dec 2006

Corruption tends to be prevalent in developing countries that are richly endowed with natural resources. This project provides a brief guide for ...

Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Environmental and Resource Management

Journal Article | Oct 2020

Corruption significantly affects the large majority of countries, and it has negative social and economic impacts. Its impacts on environmental and resource ...

Corruption, anti-corruption, environment, natural resources, agriculture, forestry, extractive industries, fisheries, irrigation, conservation

Civil society’s role in petroleum sector governance: The case of Tanzania

CMI Brief | May 2019

Good governance in the management of natural resources is now recognized by scholars and policy makers as key to ensuring that countries can prevent and ...

Tanzania

Should developing countries establish petroleum funds?

Journal Article | Jun 2018

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

Fiscal policy, extractive industries, resource curse, sovereign wealth fund