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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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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The 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.…
From SDG Academy 26 May, 2020
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This 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…
From SDG Academy 28 October, 2020
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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.…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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in 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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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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,…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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Why are strong, well-drafted legal frameworks not effectively or consistently enforced? This chapter details challenges such as low levels of capacity within government,…
From SDG Academy 20 August, 2019
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