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  Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in Southern Madagascar

  Elsevier, 2020

  Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology of violence and warfare, this paper explores strategies ‘from above’ in relation to the establis
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  Shadow value chains: Tracing the link between corruption, illicit activity and lootable natural resources from West Africa

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2017

  The  illicit  natural  resource  trade  continues  to  benefit  corrupt  officials,  criminal  and  terrorist  networks  and divert resources away from development, security and the common good in West Africa.
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  The rise of environmental crime: a growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security

  United Nations Environment and Development Forum, 2016

  The environment provides the very foundation of sustainable development, our health, food security and our economies. Ecosystems provide clean water supply, clean air and secure food and ultimately both physical and mental wellbeing.
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  Making a killing: a 2011 survey of ivory markets in China

  International Fund for Animal Welfare, 2016

  An unprecedented surge in ivory seizures occurred in 2011. Media reported that 5,259 elephant tusks were seized worldwide in that year alone, representing the lives of at least 2,629 elephants. In spite of the government’s efforts to regulate the ivory trade, China continues to be the world’s main recipient of smuggled ivory.
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  Land, biodiversity and extractive industries in southern Africa: How effective are legal and institutional frameworks in protecting people and the environment?

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2016

  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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  Space, soil and status: insights from the APRM into the governance of land in Africa

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2016

  Land is central to Africa’s fortunes, and thus has occupied a prominent place in the inquiries of Africa’s home-grown governance review system, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). This paper interrogates what the APRM’s reports from 10 participating countries have had to say on the land issue.
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  Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) (NRGI)

  The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) is a non-profit policy institute and grant-making organization that promotes the responsible management of oil, gas and mineral resources for the pu
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  No Man’s Lands? Extractive activity, territory, and scial unrest in the Peruvian Amazon: the Cenepa river

  International Land Coalition, 2012

  This case study shows how the activities of a large foreign-invested mining company on land held by the Awajun community in the northern forests of Peru have led to a characteristic cycle of state permissiveness in granting mining concessions, thus leading to social conflict.
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  Preserving the African elephant for future generations

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015

  African elephants face an escalating poaching crisis due to an explosion in demand for ivory, mostly in China. Over 100 000 elephants were killed illegally between 2010 and 2012. This paper synthesises the relevant economic literature on elephant conservation, which informs the construction of a game theoretic model. The model is designed to
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  Dead in the water - Ethical ownership and water management in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global

  Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2015

  The world is facing a serious water crisis with increasing water scarcity and overuse globally. The demand for water resources is growing rapidly mainly due to industrial use, and beverage companies are one of the major industrial consumers.

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