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    Poor governance, good business: how land investors target countries with weak governance

    2013
    Investors are buying up vast tracks of land across the developing world in a modern day ‘land rush’. This analysis by Oxfam explores where land is changing hands and why. It finds that investors appear to be targeting countries with weak governance in order to secure land quickly and cheaply.
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    Radioactive Revenues: Financial Flows between Uranium Mining Companies and African Governments

    Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2011
    For African countries, the revenue derived from the uranium mining operations of multinational corporations is despite the high price of uranium minimal, uncertain and volatile. The financial agreements that these countries make with the uranium producers regarding their share in the profits are the primary reason for this state of affairs.
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    ephemera

    The independent journal, ephemera, encourages contributions that explicitly engage with theoretical and conceptual understandings of organisational issues, processes and life.
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    OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030: a summary

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges.
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    Global Union Research Network (GURN)

    The GURN is a cooperation project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) , the Global Union Federations (GUFs), the ILO's Internat
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    China in Africa policy briefing: China’s environmental footprint in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
    Along with its economic presence, China has rapidly expanded its environmental footprint in Africa. This policy brief discusses and analyses the concerns about the impacts of China’s economic expansion on Africa’s environment. Concerns over China’s environmental footprint in Africa have arisen for at least five reasons:
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    Planning for change: guidelines for national programmes on sustainable consumption and production

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2008
    In the context of climate change, it has become clear that our global community urgently needs to adopt more sustainable life-styles to both reduce the use of natural resources and CO2 emissions.
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    Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

    The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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    Engaging neoliberal conservation

    Conservation and Society, 2008
    The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.
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    International investment agreements, business and human rights: key issues and opportunities

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008
    This paper responds to the need to identify and understand the linkages between international investment agreements (IIAs) and the debate on business and human rights. It provides a broad-based review of these linkages, focusing on the existing IIAs, and their relationship to business and human rights issues.

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