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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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  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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  The environmental crime crisis. threats to sustainable development from illegal exploitation and trade in wildlife and forest resources

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the latest data, analysis, and broadest insights into the phenomenon.
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  Africa’s extractive governance architecture: lessons to inform a shifting agenda

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  Careful reflection is needed in examining options for streamlining and capacitating the myriad Africa-led initiatives that have emerged recently in the area of resource governance.
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  Managing resources and the democratic order: the experience of Botswana

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009

  How has Botswana been able to succeed in promoting better governance, so far, where other resource-rich African states have failed?
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  Natural resource governance, boom and bust: the case of Kolwezi in the DRC

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009

  Mineral extraction is the main source of employment and income in, Kolwezi, a city that has been tied since its inception to the fortunes of Congolese copper and cobalt mining and the intertwined narrative of trends in international copper and cobalt supply, demand and price.
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  Assessment of the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2012

  The  study  site  of  Fogera  Woreda  is  one  of  106  woredas of  the  Amhara National  Regional  State  and  is  located  in  the  South  Gondar  Zone,  about  65  km  north of the  Regional  capital  Bahir  Dar  town,  on  
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  Resource abundance in mozambique: avoiding conflict, ensuring prosperity

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  From as early as the 1960s companies have been exploring the natural resource wealth of Mozambique. However, it is only in the past decade that the potential of these resources has been realised. Indeed, Mozambique is now thought to have some of the largest deposits of gas and coal on the African continent, and beyond.
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  Marikana as a tipping point? The political economy of labour tensions in South Africa’s mining industry and how best to resolve them

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013

  Before 16 August 2012, the platinum-mining South African town of Marikana was still largely unknown outside the mining sector. On that fateful day, everything changed. A toxic cocktail of a brutal police force and grievance-mobilised workers resulted in the death of 34 striking mineworkers.

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