These videos are from the SDG Academy course Natural Resources for Sustainable Development, first launched in 2016. The course is taught by the world's leading experts in natural resource governance.
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3,452 playsThis 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… -
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102 playsState-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… -
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175 playsWhat 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… -
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114 playsAllocation of mineral rights is a significant issue in natural resource management, and illustrates a fundamental difference between extractive industries and other… -
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40 playsIn this chapter, Matthew Genasci discusses contract-based systems, including both production sharing arrangements and service contracts, in comparison to royalty tax… -
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145 playsThe live Q&A session took place on May 26, 2020, and answered questions related to the natural resource governance in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. Dr.… -
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183 playsThis is a recording of a live webinar that took place on October 28, 2020. Oil and mining sector corruption has led to political strife and billions lost in public… -
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164 playsSaleem Ali provides an overview of the environmental assessment process, by which regulators can manage the ecological and economic costs and benefits of natural… -
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119 playsThis 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… -
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98 playsDiscovery 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… -
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39 playsin this chapter, Paul Collier looks at the politics of how the economic decision chain, from the discovery process of natural resources to domestic investments. He… -
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144 playsJeffrey 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… -
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89 playsThe 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.… -
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71 playsWhy are strong, well-drafted legal frameworks not effectively or consistently enforced? This chapter details challenges such as low levels of capacity within government,… -
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41 playsThis 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,… -
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122 playsThis video explains the differences between mining and oil and gas extraction notably that extraction of oil (hydrocarbon exploitation) produces water as waste, while…