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  Global and regional mechanisms for governing the resource curse in Africa

  Southern African Resource Watch, 2014

  International norms around natural resource governance have proliferated inthe face of civil wars and feeble state institutions in Africa. These norms have been captured in institutions such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the Publish What You Pay, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), and the African Mining Vision (AMV).
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  Land, biodiversity and the extractive industries in southern Africa. How effective are legal and institutional frameworks in protecting people and the environment?

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2013

  In the natural resources sector, laws are often formulated to regulate the relationship between men and the environment. Ideally, the law can play a vital role in regulating and protecting communities from adverse environmental and social impacts of mining, loss of land, biodiversity and natural wealth, as well as other human rights violations.
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  Breaking the curse: how transparent taxation and fair taxes can turn Africa’s mineral wealth into development

  Southern African Resource Watch, 2009

  December 2008 saw a ‘perfect storm’ hit international metals prices, bringing the five-year international metal price boom to an abrupt end. The combined collapse in demand for metals and sharp drop in the demand of institutional investors for commodity-based assets have slashed copper prices by up to two thirds, and gold prices by up to a third from their peaks in July 2008.
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  Copper boom in Zambia: boom for whom?

  Southern African Resource Watch, 2007

  Zambia was the first country on the African continent to produce copper and its econ- omy has historically been heavily dependent on the mining of copper and cobalt. Once a middle-income country, Zambia began to slide into poverty in the 1970s when copper prices declined on the world market.
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  Congo’s Golden web: The people, companies and countries that profit from the illegal trade in Congolese Gold

  Southern African Resource Watch, 2014

  This report describes all aspects of the commercialisation of (DRC) Congolese gold – including gold that is produced by industrial, semi-industrial and artisanal mining operations, and gold that is traded and refined by small merchants, well-capitalised trading groups and powerful refineries.
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  Southern African Resource Watch (SARW)

  Advocacy and research organisation, aiming to monitor corporate and state conduct in the extraction and beneficiation of natural resources in Southern Africa region, in particular assessing to what ex
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  Cyber war preparedness, cyberspace arms control and the United States

  China Institute of International Studies, 2014

  The cyber-attacks that Estonia, Georgia and Iran suffered as well as the U.S. PRISM spying scandal exposed in 2013 have demonstrated that there is increasing difficulty in maintaining order and security in cyberspace.
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  Navigating the Gulf: China’s balancing strategy

  Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2014

  Due to China’s growing energy needs that stem from its unrelenting economic development, Beijing stresses the importance of maintaining a continuous supply of energy - particularly oil - to maintain its impressive economic growth.
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  Elephants over the cliff: explaining wildlife killings in Tanzania

  Elsevier, 2015

  Many incidents of elephant killings have recently taken place in Tanzania as well as in other Africancountries. Such events are usually presented as results of the rising global demand for ivory. As we showin this case study, however, not all violence against elephants is driven by the ivory trade.
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  Power to protect? Participation in decentralized conservation management: the case of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014

  This report is based on a case study of participation in and decentralized management of Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) in north-eastern Nepal.

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