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atural resource abundance and conflict is multi-layered. On the one hand, resource abundance could foster development due to potential revenue streams and alleviate socio-economic r sk factors of conflict such as pove...
Every investment decision changes resource allocation and thus affects the conflict dynamic. Companies, as well as the consortia of financing institutions, become part of the social context in conflict-prone regions.
Many violent conflicts have been fueled by the exploitation of natural resources, whether high-value resources like timber, diamonds, gold, minerals, and oil or scarce ones like fertile...
To help students understand this role, this study guide will briefly describe those natural resources that are typically involved in violent conflicts, the role of natural resources as causes of conflict or escalation...
One common narrative is about natural resource scarcity and conflict, typically involving renewable resources such as water. There is a diferent narrative involving natural resource abundance and conflict. In this cas...
Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resources leading to scarcity and conflict.
What This Guide Offers This guide is structured around SDG Indicator 2.4.1 – the proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture. The indicator examines 11 key dimensions of what makes far...
More specifically, the results show that variables such as access to water and food security are important predictors of conflict, while resource rents and oil and ore exports are relatively less important than other ...
Conflict can have devastating impacts on sustainable development efforts: Conflict can undermine sustainable development by destroying infrastructure, disrupting economies, and diverting resources away from developmen...
Putting nature on the balance sheet is a figurative and literal way to recognize natural capital as an economic driver in business, finance and government decision-making. It helps to illustrate the ways nature’s cond...
