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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

At the extremes: Corruption in natural resource management revisited

U4 Brief | Sep 2016

natural resource management

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

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

Building accountable resource governance institutions

Report in External Series | Dec 2019

Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest ...

Natural resource management, accountability, formal institutions, informal institutions, anti-corruption

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

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

Natural resource wealth, conflict, and peacebuilding

Report in External Series | Feb 2009

What connections exist between natural resource wealth and violent conflict? What do such connections imply for policies to build peace in resource-rich ...

Natural resource management, natural resource wealth, resource curse, rentier state, oil, diamonds, armed conflict, war economies, conflict financing, CSR, peacebuilding

Small-scale fisheries, population dynamics and resource use in Africa: The case of Moree, Ghana

Journal Article | Jan 2002

The relationships between population dynamics and fishery resources are more complex than the concept of Malthusian overfishing implies. Reasons include ...

Population dynamics, migration, fisheries management, sustainability, Ghana, Africa

Management, co-management or no management? Major dilemmas in southern African freshwater fisheries. Vol. 1: Synthesis report Vol.2: Case studies

Book | Jan 2003

Fisheries in the South Africa Development Community freshwaters are found to function as an economic buffer and as a safety valve for thousands of people ...

Fishery, Freshwater fish, DR Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Knowledge Management for Anti-Corruption

U4 Issue | Jan 2006

This Issue looks at the following questions: What is knowledge management and why does it matter? How can knowledge management systems be analysed and ...

World

Managing good fortune: Macroeconomics management and the role of aid in Botswana

Commissioned Report | Jan 1998

(Evaluation Report 6.98)

Developing an NGO corruption risk management system: Considerations for donors

U4 Issue | Sep 2011

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are often on the front line of aid delivery, managing a significant proportion of aid funds. The risk of corruption ...

aid

Research and fisheries management: the uneasy relationship review of the Zambia-Zimbabwe SADC fisheries project

CMI Report | Jan 1998

This report is an evaluation of the "Zambia-Zimbabwe SADC Fisheries Project". The project aims to establish effective fisheries management regimes for ...

Fishery management, Development projects, Evaluation, Lake Kariba, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa: Zambia

"Flooding our eyes with rubbish": urban waste management in Maputo, Mozambique

Journal Article | Aug 2018

Critical voices on urban management tend to portray conflicting governmentalities, with western 'top-down' municipal development models on the one hand, ...

citizen-state relations, divided city, informal settlements, urban sanitation, Mozambique

Local government finances and financial management in Tanzania

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2004

This report provides baseline data on local government finance and financial management in six councils in Tanzania: Bagamoyo District Council, Ilala ...

Public finance, Local government, Financial management, Tanzania, , Africa: Tanzania

Local government finances and financial management in Tanzania. Observations from six councils, 2000-2003

Report in External Series | Jan 2004

This report is an overview of local government finances and financial management in six councils in Tanzania: Bagamoyo District Council, Ilala Municipal ...

Public finance, Local government, Financial management, Tanzania

Resource curse

Book Chapter | Oct 2014

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

Supply Chain Management in the Offshore Oil Industry: The Angolan and Norwegian Cases Compared

Book Chapter | Jan 2006

Different external environments lead to differences in supply chain management. This chapter focuses on the organisation of the supply chain in the offshore ...

Oil industry, Offshore, Supply chain, Africa: Angola., Norway