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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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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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This video is the first video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
What do we mean by Nature-based Solutions to…
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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 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.…
Q&A | Daniel Kaufmann | 2020 May 26
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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…
Tackling Extractive Sector Corruption in Unstable…
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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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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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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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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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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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This video is the third video of unit 2.1 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Interview with Verónica Ruiz, Nature-based…
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This video is the second video of unit 1.2 of the course Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience taught by Nathalie Doswald, Mikhail Fernandes, and…
Nature’s solutions to landslides: a case…
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