Download or read book The Local Economic Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction written by James Cust and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it is fair to characterize natural resource wealth as a curse is still debated. Most of the evidence derives from cross-country analyses, providing cases both for and against a potential resource curse. Scholars are increasingly turning to within-country evidence to deepen our understanding of the potential drivers, and outcomes, of resource wealth effects. Moving away from cross-country studies offers new perspectives on the resource curse debate and can help overcome concerns regarding endogeneity. Therefore, scholars are leveraging datasets that provide greater disaggregation of economic responses and exogenous identification of impacts. This article surveys the literature on these studies of local and regional effects of natural resource extraction. We discuss data availability and quality, recent advances in methodological tools, and the main findings of several research areas. These areas include the direct impact of natural resource production on local labor markets and welfare, the effects of government spending channels resulting from mining revenue, and regional spillovers. Finally, we take stock of the state of the literature and provide suggestions for future research.

Download or read book Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods written by Emma Gilberthorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in global debates on sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and climate change. The case studies are used to assess whether and how development processes might compete and conflict with the market objectives of multinational corporations and the organizational and moral principles of indigenous communities. Emphasizing the perspectives of directly-affected parties, the authors identify common patterns in the way in which extraction projects are conceptualized, implemented and perceived. The book provides a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the human environments where resource extraction takes place and its consequent impacts on local livelihoods. Its in-depth case studies underscore the need for increased social accountability in the planning and development of natural resource extraction projects.

Download or read book Resource Boom to Revitalization written by Austin Zwick and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small cities in Appalachia have been battling an ongoing struggle against economic decline for decades, but now some find themselves amidst a new natural resource boom. The technological innovation of hydraulic fracturing drilling, commonly known as 'fracking', has revolutionized global energy markets overnight, leaving a gap of understanding about its local implications in the process. Most early research focused on documenting the environmental risks of fracking, but little work has gone into understanding its local economic and planning impacts. Promises of economic growth and blue-collar jobs give hope to this declining region, but resource extraction municipalities often struggle with inadequate fiscal and administrative capacity to deal with the environmental and infrastructure externalities caused by the industry. As municipalities grapple with these challenges, the 'boom-bust cycle' may become reflected on their balance sheets, putting their fiscal health at risk. What are the local economic planning and governance implications of the fracking boom in Northern Appalachia? Additionally, because of the newness of fracking, this specific industry in this specific region offers a rare opportunity to study the impact the introduction of natural resource development impacts local economic resilience. My doctoral dissertation offers a unique theoretical contribution, as tension in literature exists on whether contemporary extractions industries positively or negatively impact diversification. It also offers a practical contribution, considering that little research exists on job estimates and governance issues that arise with fracking. Each chapter of this dissertation, intended to be independent academic works with their own literature reviews and methods, contributes to our understanding through: (Chapter 1) introducing the geography of the region, (Chapter 2) overviewing the economic history of Northern Appalachia; (Chapter 3) testing changes in economic diversity indices; (Chapter 4) investigating migration, housing, and employment patterns; and (Chapter 5) surveying local planners about regulatory responses. Finally, my dissertation concludes with a review of findings and a brief set of policy recommendations. The goal of this research is to provide information that helps small cities best plan and manage the fracking boom; finding that the industry is not dramatically altering patterns of long-term decline in Appalachia.

Download or read book Winning the Oil Lottery written by Mr.Tiago Cavalcanti and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides evidence of the causal impact of oil discoveries on development. Novel data on the drilling of 20,000 oil wells in Brazil allows us to exploit a quasi-experiment: Municipalities where oil was discovered constitute the treatment group, while municipalities with drilling but no discovery are the control group. The results show that oil discoveries significantly increase per capita GDP and urbanization. We find positive spillovers to non-oil sectors, specifically, an increase in services GDP which stems from higher output per worker. The results are consistent with greater local demand for non-tradable services driven by highly paid oil workers.

Download or read book The Economics of Natural Resource Use written by John M. Hartwick and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an examination of the economics of using natural resources in the modern economy. Presenting economic concepts essential to examining how resources can be sustained, extracted and harvested extensive use is made of diagrams and accompanying algebraic models.

Download or read book Rents to Riches written by Naazneen Barma and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rents to Riches> focuses on the political economy of the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the natural resource management (NRM) value chain. Many resource-dependent developing countries pursue seemingly shortsighted and suboptimal policies when extracting, taxing, and investing resource rents. The book contextualizes these micro-level outcomes with an emphasis on two central political economy dimensions: the degree to which governments can make credible intertemporal commitments to both resource developers and citizens, and the degree to which governments and inclined to turn resource rents into public goods. Almost 1.5 billion people live in the more than 50 World Bank client countries classified as resource-dependent. A detailed understanding of the way political economy characteristics affect the NRM decisions made in these countries by governments, extractive developers, and society can improve the design of interventions to support welfare-enhancing policy making and governance in the natural resource sectors. Featuring case study work from Africa (Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria), East Asia and Pacific (the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Timor-Leste), and Latin America and the Caribbean (Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Trinidad an dTobago_, the book provides guidance for government clients, domestic stakeholders, and development partners committed to transforming natural resource into sustainable development riches.

Download or read book Resource Peripheries in the Global Economy written by Felipe Irarrázaval and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places. The book thereby provides an interdisciplinary approach underpinned by economic geography, political ecology, resource geography, development studies and political geography. It also discusses the different technological, political and economic changes that make the ongoing production of resource peripheries a distinctive socio-spatial formation under the global economy. Through a global and interdisciplinary perspective that uncovers ongoing political processes, socio-economic changes and socio-ecological dynamics at resource peripheries, this book argues that it is critical to take a more profound appraisal about the socio-spatial processes behind the contemporary way in which capitalism is appropriating and transforming nature.

Download or read book Micro economic Linkages Between Economic Development and Local Natural Resource Use written by Dale Thomas Manning and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, natural resource economists have examined resource use in isolation of the economy of which it is part. In this thesis, I show theoretically and empirically how natural resource exploitation decisions are linked to other economic sectors in developing countries. These linkages open new possibilities for managing the amount of effort allocated to an open access or common property resource sector. I show theoretically how imperfectly integrated rural households are connected through the use of a common property resource. As the amount of labor in a village economy increases, Nash behavior converges to atomistic competition and the average value of labor in the resource sector equals its marginal value in other sectors. Resource rents dissipate as the number of users increases and resource stocks decrease.In a context of many natural resource users, increasing returns in other sectors (e.g., agriculture) increases economy-wide demand for labor, puts upward pressure on economy wages, and decreases the use of natural resource. Less use allows resource stocks to recover in the long-run. At the same time, increases in income can increase demand for the resource and mitigate or undo improvements in resource stocks. In a Honduran example, I show that higher agricultural prices pull local labor out of an open access fishery. Higher returns in the fishery draw in more labor from outside the local economy and push fish stocks down towards their previous levels. This analysis reveals the potential for improvement by creating a restricted-access commons instead of a pure open access resource sector Chapters 2 and 3 explore household labor allocation decisions to investigate if migration and agricultural productivity influence the use of a local, open access resource in rural Mexico. Having a migrant in the United States increases the probability that a household invests in a gas stove and conditional on this investment, households with a migrant spend fewer days collecting firewood and spend more money on gas for cooking. In addition, agricultural households with higher agricultural productivity and marginal values of labor on the farm spend fewer days collecting firewood and purchase more gas. This occurs as the marginal value of labor on the farm represents the opportunity cost of time allocated to resource extraction.This thesis shows that natural resource exploitation decisions do not happen in isolation. This has implications for understanding the impact of development on natural resource stocks and provides a new toolkit for managing the amount of effort allocated to resource extraction. Even while resource rents remain dissipated, changes in non-resource sectors have the potential to influence resource extraction and the natural capital of a developing community. Altering users' opportunity costs can be used in concert with traditional natural resource management policies to increase the effectiveness of resource management in developing countries.

Download or read book Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Local Communities and the Mining Industry written by Nicolas D. Brunet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia. Mining’s contribution to economic development varies greatly across countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but in others, disputes have erupted over land use, property rights, environmental damage, and revenue sharing. Corporate social responsibility programs are increasingly relied upon to manage company-community relations, yet conflicts persist in many settings, with significant costs for companies and communities. Exploring the many factors and drivers that characterize relationships among different actors within the sector, the volume contributes towards the development of practical wisdom, collective understanding, common sense, and prudence required for the mining sector and community partners to realize the economic potential and social and environmental responsibilities of non-renewable resource development. The book examines case studies from Canada, Scandinavia, and the Philippines, three regions amongst the world's top countries of mining operations. Drawing on their extensive experience in these regions, the contributors explore distinctive mining sectors in the Global North and South, the variation surrounding different types of extractive industries, and at different scales, and the legal processes in place to protect local communities. Key themes include corporate social responsibility, impact assessment, foreign ownership, Indigenous Peoples, gender, local insurgency, and mining disasters as well as climate change. The book identifies areas of future research and pathways to achieving stronger, respectful, and mutually beneficial relationships at the nexus of global mineral extraction and local communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, sustainable business and corporate social responsibility, Indigenous studies, and sustainable planning and development.

Download or read book Ranching Mining and the Human Impact of Natural Resource Development written by Raymond L. Gold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ranching, Mining, and the Human Impact of Natural Resource Development, Raymond L. Gold observes and reports on people whose lives have been significantly affected by the industrialization of rural communities in the American West. Such community change research is rarely done, so this classic study is invaluable for its real world groundings applicable to a variety of social science theories. The study evolved out of ethnographic research on Western communities done over a full decade.This was the first work of its kind to examine and account for the rise of local citizens' groups on the sense of being a community. Its account of this process covers both ordinarily slow and extraordinarily rapid areas of change in the American West. In this regard it is a contribution to basic social theory, showing clearly the interrelation between small-community and large-society elements of the structure and functioning of community life. No other book brings together the story of social effects of natural resource development projects in the American West.This book shows how to implement a social policy concerning resource development and public agencies. It is intended for people interested in the environment, American society, rural and urban affairs, social impact assessment, and urban structures generally. It is also aimed at industrial and community planners and natural resource development firms.

Download or read book Extractive Imperialism in the Americas written by James Petras and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food products, have brought about a massive devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations as well as states with energy and food security concerns—and concerns about a system (global capitalism) in the throes of a global crisis. These developments have also brought about a major change in the form taken by imperialism (actions taken by the state to advance the interests of the dominant capitalist class). This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the regional context of the Americas, a major stage in the unfolding drama of a system in crisis.

Download or read book Economic and Environmental Impacts of Natural Resources Abundance written by Yassine Kirat and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines how societies use and sustain the natural resources that fundamentally shape human well-being, the environment and the economy. The links between economic prosperity, resources and environmental preservation are complex and diverse. This implies that, if all dimensions are not taken into account in public policy making, any progress in achieving objectives in these areas can be hindered by undesirable outcomes. A key issue in development studies is how natural resource wealth affects long-term economic growth. In order to address this question, the first chapter examines the impact of non-conventional resource development on the US manufacturing sector over the period 1997-2013. In the same veine, chapter 3 examines the impact of abundant natural resources on the economy by exploiting the volatility channel of natural resources rent on a panel of 103 countries between 1985-2014. Moreover, the extraction and processing of natural resources are often energy-intensive activities that involve large-scale ecosystem alterations. Chapter 2 of the thesis investigates the impact of natural resource abundance on CO2 intensity in developed countries over the period 1995-2014.

Download or read book When Fracking Comes to Town written by Sabina E. Deitrick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fracking Comes to Town traces the response of local communities to the shale gas revolution. Rather than cast communities as powerless to respond to oil and gas companies and their landmen, it shows that communities have adapted their local rules and regulations to meet the novel challenges accompanying unconventional gas extraction through fracking. The multidisciplinary perspectives of this volume's essays tie together insights from planners, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists. What emerges is a more nuanced perspective of shale gas development and its impacts on municipalities and residents. Unlike many political debates that cast fracking in black-and-white terms, this book's contributors embrace the complexity of local responses to fracking. States adapted legal institutions to meet the new challenges posed by this energy extraction process while under-resourced municipal officials and local planning offices found creative ways to alleviate pressure on local infrastructure and reduce harmful effects of fracking on the environment. The essays in When Fracking Comes to Town tell a story of community resilience with the rise and decline of shale gas production. Contributors: Ennio Piano, Ann M. Eisenberg, Pamela A. Mischen, Joseph T. Palka, Jr., Adelyn Hall, Carla Chifos, Teresa Córdova, Rebecca Matsco, Anna C. Osland, Carolyn G. Loh, Gavin Roberts, Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju, Frederick Tannery, Larry McCarthy, Erik R. Pages, Mark C. White, Martin Romitti, Nicholas G. McClure, Ion Simonides, Jeremy G. Weber, Max Harleman, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

Download or read book OECD Green Growth Studies Material Resources Productivity and the Environment written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a factual analysis of material flows and resource productivity in OECD countries in a global context.

Download or read book The Effects of Natural Resource Extraction on Household Expenditure Patterns written by Odmaa Narantungalag and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the economic impacts of the mining sector on household expenditures. Employing the difference-in-differences model and the Mongolia Household Socio-Economic Survey data from 2008 to 2016, I find that the mining activities benefited local residents. Specifically, mining activities increase household expenditures on food, health, and electricity, respectively, while households reduce their expenditures on education and other non-food items. Interestingly, illness did not increase in the resource-producing region, while educational attainment improved. The findings highlight that the positive impacts of the mining sector are likely to be higher than what is determined by traditional welfare measurements of income and consumption. I provide some anecdotal evidence that the changes in household expenditure patterns can be due to increased availability of health care services and educational facilities in the mining region.

Download or read book Mines Communities and States written by Jessica Steinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.