TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 49, Issue 3 (September 2006)
Conflicts over natural resources
Thematic Section: Ecological Justice, Rights and Development |
Dialogue: Continuing Debates |
Local/Global Encounters: Community Rights and Natural Resources |
Book Review |
Window on the World |
Who's Who |
Last Word
Upfront
Editorial: Conflict, Ecological Justice and Rights FREE
Outlines alternative views to the dominant approach to natural resource conflict
Wendy Harcourt
Development 49: 1-5; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100292
Difference and Conflict in the Struggle Over Natural Resources: A political ecology framework FREE
Looks at resource conflict through three inter-related rubrics: economic, ecological, and cultural
Arturo Escobar
Development 49: 6-13; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100267
Thematic Section: Ecological Justice, Rights and Development
'May God Give Us Chaos, So That We Can Plunder': A critique of 'resource curse' and conflict theories
Scrutinizes the increasingly popular theories of the curse of natural resources
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Development 49: 14-21; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100268
Transboundary Water Resources in Southern Africa: Conflict or cooperation?
Suggests a linkage between internationally shared water resources and conflict
Anthony R Turton, Marian J Patrick and Frederic Julien
Development 49: 22-31; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100269
Environmental Conflicts and the Plundering of Resources in Latin America
Illustrates how large-scale projects carried out by transnational corporations are major sources of conflict
Ricardo Cifuentes Villarroel
Development 49: 32-37; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100270
Environmental Struggles in Malaysia
Argues for an integral link between environmental standards and economic development
Meenakshi Raman
Development 49: 38-42; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100271
Women, Land Rights and the Environment: The Kenyan experience FREE
Calls for women to have legal rights to land in order to ensure good stewardship and sustained community livelihoods
Patricia Kameri-Mbote
Development 49: 43-48; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100274
Trade Liberalization, Natural Resources and Poverty
Shows how liberalizing natural resource sectors has depleted resources and restricted livelihoods
Ronnie Hall
Development 49: 49-55; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100272
The New Geopolitics of Oil
Points out the downside to oil for the climate and sustainability
Michael Renner
Development 49: 56-63; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100273
Revisiting the Oil Curse
Asks questions about the political and economic scenarios in relation to oil
Samuel R Schubert
Development 49: 64-70; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100291
Dialogue: Continuing Debates
The Earth Charter and the Quest for a More Sustainable and Peaceful World
Reflects on the 'Earth Charter' as a common values framework for a more just, sustainable and peaceful world
Mirian Vilela
Development 49: 71-75; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100278
From Empire to Earth Community
Introduces a powerful message for a better future taken from his new book 'The Great Turning'
David Korten
Development 49: 76-81; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100286
Gender and Natural Disaster: Sexualized violence and the tsunami
Shows how women bear the brunt of natural disaster due to gender biases and blindness
Claudia Felten-Biermann
Development 49: 82-86; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100276
The Public Sphere, Globalization and Technological Development
Explores Habermas's theory of the public sphere in debates around communication technologies in development
Tina Sikka
Development 49: 87-93; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100277
Global Discourses and Local Politics in the Production of Power Policy in India
Examines the evolution of electric-power policy in India from a post Keynesian view point
Waquar Ahmed
Development 49: 94-100; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100275
Local/Global Encounters: Community Rights and Natural Resources
Sudan: Identity and conflict over natural resources
Looks at why conflicts over resources in the Sudan have taken on an ugly identity politics
Munzoul A M Assal
Development 49: 101-105; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100284
The New El Dorado in Romania: The State and The World Bank against local development
Documents the resistance of local Romanian communities to the Rosia Montana gold mining venture
Don Kalb
Development 49: 106-110; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100289
Supporting Pastoralist Livelihoods in Eastern Africa Through Peace Building
Demonstrates how conflicts involving pastoralists are due to the inattention of the state to their particular needs
Jeremy Lind
Development 49: 111-115; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100279
The Gasoline Crisis in Iraq
Reports on how violent conflicts are arising over oil in Iraq
Pratap Chatterjee
Development 49: 116-118; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100282
Mediating Resource Management in the Mi'kmaq Fisheries Canada
Argues that sustainable commercial fisheries need local communities' histories, knowledge and practices.
Gretchen Fox
Development 49: 119-124; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100285
Technologies of Existence: The indigenous environmental justice movement FREE
Proposes an alternative approach to development for healthy economies, ecologies and cultures.
Dana E Powell
Development 49: 125-132; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100287
Land Rights in South Africa: A mechanism against poverty?
Challenges traditional views of land rights in addressing engrained poverty
Sharron Marco-Thyse
Development 49: 133-137; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100290
Book Review
Challenging Coasts: Transdisciplinary Excursions Into Integrated Coastal Zone Development
Comments on a key text on natural resources and development
Simon Foale
Development 49: 138-139; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100281
Window on the World
Natural Resource Management FREE
Presents some of the key global institutions looking at natural resource management and conflict
Development 49: 140-143; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100288
Who's Who
Who's Who
Lists contacts of the contributors to the journal issue
Development 49: 144-147; doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100293
