In Why Nations Fail, economists Acemoglu and Robinson provide a brilliant explanation on how progress and development is largely a function of 'inclusive' -- as opposed to extractive -- governance.
It called on African governments to improve governance and strengthen national capacity to manage extractive industries as part of a broader economic and development strategy, and to put transparency and accountability at the heart of natural resource policies.
Our results suggest the need to expand our understanding of extractive cycles to explicitly incorporate multi-scale governance, shifting values, and external shocks (i.e., hurricanes) as major drivers of change of forest products.
Conservationists have suggested that sacred sites are akin to protected areas and represent a form of informal institution for natural resource governance that may incorporate non-extractive norms and active protection and management by local custodians (Wild and McLeod 2008).
extractive unit to recover toxic extractant.
Aid organizations can and must provide sufficient funding and technical assistance for meaningful strengthening of administrative capacity, governance and oversight in relation to the extractives sector, while building on recent achievements on legal and regulatory frameworks.
You've got a lot of bad governance, and often you've got greed with extractive industries.
Indonesia has taken a step in that direction by asking to join the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, a coalition that seeks to improve governance in resource-rich countries by verifying and publicizing government revenue from oil, natural gas and mining.
We argue that while multi-stakeholder governance arrangements convened by resource extraction companies can support situations of democracy under certain conditions, resource extraction companies structure the processes within these collaborative arrangements to the benefits of specific actors, notably the extractive companies themselves and other profit-orientated actors.
Social conflicts related to extractive industries in Peru tend to be conceptualised as problems of governance, namely, as conflicts generated from ill-designed policies for distribution of revenues from extractive industries, formal political participation, transparency and conflict management.
Advocates of these 'good governance' initiatives have sought to mainstream transparency throughout the extractive industries value chain and implement pro-poor projects at the site level.
