Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa : : Panacea or Pandora's Box? / / ed. by Jesse Salah Ovadia, J. Andrew Grant, Nathan Andrews.

• Funder: University of Toronto. Library,
• MitwirkendeR: Ackah-Baidoo, Patricia,; Akuffo, Edward Ansah,; Alorse, Raynold Wonder,; Andrews, Nathan,; Awiti, Alex,; Bassett, Carolyn,; Bersaglio, Brock,; Caramento, Alexander,; Collins, Andrea (Ecologist); Enns, Charis,; Fradella, Allyson,; Geipel, Jeff,; Graham, Emmanuel,; Hamann, Steffi,; Hilson, Abigail Efua,; Huggins, Chris,; Katz-Lavigne, Sarah, 1984-; Nickerson, Emily,; Odumosu-Ayanu, Ibironke T.,; Ovadia, Jesse Salah,; Schwartz, Brendan,; Sneyd, Adam, 1978-; Walsh-Pickering, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Andrews, Nathan,; Grant, J. Andrew, 1974-; Ovadia, Jesse Salah,
• Author: University of Toronto. Library,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (392 pages)

"There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, over a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organiza...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• SECTION I Introduction
• 1 An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
• SECTION II Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels
• 2 Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: "New Governance" Insights from South Africa
• 3 The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana's "Oil City": How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi
• 4 Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana's Oil
• 5 Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda
• 6 Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors
• SECTION III Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement
• 7 Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development
• 8 "The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths": An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism
• 9 Promoting Mining Local Procurement through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO's Eforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry
• 10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa
• 11 "Community Development" in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project
• SECTION IV Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus
• 12 Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
• 13 Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• 14 China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing's Foreign Policy in Africa
• SECTION V Concluding Remarks and Reflections
• 15 Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s
• Contributors
• Index