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This chapter overviews investments in oil, gas and mining projects. It includes a comparison of private and state ventures. Sources of income include: cash from existing…
How a Company Decides to Invest in a Project
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Webinar 6 Siena International School of Sustainable Development 2022
From Waste to Wealth
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State-controlled companies often play an outsized role in the management of the oil, gas, and mining industries. For example, they control about 90 percent of all global…
State-Owned Enterprises: Role and Governance
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Every night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric…
Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and…
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In this video, Dr Kim Borg discusses a project she was involved with about the problem of the use of single use plastics, and the influence of media campaigns that aim…
Case study: Avoid using single use plastics
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What are the key elements of a legal framework for the extractive sector? These can include a country's constitution (for example, laying out who owns natural…
Legal and Regulatory Frameworks for Extractive…
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Allocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other…
Allocation of Rights
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In this chapter, Matthew Genasci discusses contract-based systems, including both production sharing arrangements and service contracts, in comparison to royalty tax…
Fiscal Instruments II: Contract-based Systems
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The extractive sector is famously prone to corruption. Resource rich countries on average score far worse than their non-resource rich peers on measures of corruption.…
Corruption Trends in the Extractive Sector
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the movement of products long distances through multinational companies, as well as the challenges presented by the global…
Global Value Chains
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Saleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural…
Environmental Impact Assessments and…
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Jeffrey Sachs notes that it is, on the whole, good to have mineral resources or coal, oil, or gas resources as major inputs to the economy; major inputs to economic…
Challenges and Opportunities of Oil, Gas, and…
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Discovery of natural resources is difficult; this is evidenced by the fact that in the typical poor country, if we look at how many resources it had discovered per…
The decision chain of natural resource…
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This chapter covers international laws that can impact the governance of natural resources. Trade law is one example, as it can require governments not to restrict…
International Law and the Extractive Industries
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This chapter details the role of domestic political systems in natural resources and how these systems are affected by resource wealth. It describes the resource curse,…
How natural resources shape and are shaped by…
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Transparency is defined as a flow of relevant, timely, and reliable information, information in the economic, financial, social, institution, and political arenas, which…
Transparency and accountability
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