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    Legal limits to tribal governance: coal mining in Meghalaya, India

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    Land in Meghalaya, India, was traditionally agricultural land, owned by the community. With increasing privatization and rising commercial value of land for non-agricultural use, many owners have sold the land for mining operations. So-called rat-hole coal mining has resulted in environmental degradation as well as in the loss of lives of miners, most of whom are from outside the state.
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    Has the EITI been successful? Reviewing evaluations of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    Has  the  EITI  been  successful?  Many  efforts  have  been  devoted  to  improving  resource  governance through  the  Extractive  Industries  Transparency  Initiative.  A  review  of  50  evaluations  concludes  that  the  EITI  has  succeeded 
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    The global participation backlash: Implications for natural resource initiatives

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    Civil society organizations can help to ensure good governance over natural resources as members of global multi-stakeholder  initiatives  like  the  Extractive  Industries  Transparency  Initiative.  Yet  a  good  number  of  resource-rich countries have legally restricted civil society organizations’ independence and ability to
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    Local content in Tanzania’s gas and minerals sectors: Who regulates?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2017
    The implementation of Tanzania’s local content policy for the petroleum and mineral sectors has been hampered by inconsistency, confusion, and un-coordinated donor interventions.
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    Everybody lives upstream: the watershed approach for the changing climate of the Hindu Kush Himalaya

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017
    Globally, the watershed approach has been proven as a way to bridge human and natural systems for the conservation, sustainable use, and renewal of natural resources, especially water.
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    Workshop report: Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio, Phase II, Partnership Workshop, April 2017, Islamabad, Pakistan.

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2017
    On 2 March, 2017, Indus Basin Initiative (IBI) of ICIMOD in partnership with Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) and World Wide Fund for Nature, Gilgit Baltistan (WWF-GB) organized a partnership workshop to prepare a detailed plan of IBI for the second phase (2017-2020) of Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP II) in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    Changing elites, institutions and environmental governance

    Springerlink, 2016
    The topic of elites has always been controversial in Latin American social sciences. Elites have been studied indirectly as landowners, capitalists, business-leaders or politicians, and have also been approached directly using concepts and theory from elite studies.
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    Deciding over nature: corruption and environmental impact assessments

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2016
    Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are a core aspect of environmental decision-making in most countries. Despite massive potential for public harms resulting from corrupt decision-making linked to EIAs, research on this topic is still very limited.
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    Lack of consultation. Stakeholders’ perspectives on local content requirements in the petroleum sector in Tanzania

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2016
    Tanzania has recently discovered huge offshore natural gas fields. This has led the Government to develop Local Content Policies (LCPs) to increase local job and business opportunities. This brief presents the main findings from a study of the stakeholders’ assessment of the LCPs the Tanzanian Government has developed.
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    Panama Papers and the looting of Africa

    2016
    On the 3rd of April 2016 the German Newspaper Sud Deutsche Zeitung in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) made an unprecedented release of documents from a database of the Panama based offshor e law firm Mossack Fonseca which is the world’s fourth largest offshore services law firm.

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