Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Overview of environmental and natural resource degradation of agriculture in Bangladesh

This paper is an overview of the various contributing factors for the natural and environmental resource problems of agriculture particularly relating to the degradation of soil resource base in Bangladesh. The land use has been changed in terms of net and total cropped area, area not available for cultivation and forest area. A decrease in the hectares of net cropped area and an increase in th...

Natural Resource Extraction with Reversible Stock Pollution

This paper concerns the stock pollution problem, such as the pollution of agricultural soil with heavy metals due to mining. Unlike the existing literature that examines the effects of natural pollution decay, this paper considers that the pollution stock is reversible only through capital investment. By examining the typical regulation that requires the mining firm to recover the disturbed lan...

Urban Landscapes of Armed Violence

during a military operation to find ten FAL 7.62 rifles and one 9 mm pistol stolen from an army barracks in Rio de Janeiro.

Armed Violence and Insecurity in South Sudan