Natural resources and institutional development

Natural Resources, Development Models and Sustainable Development

This paper starts out from the optimistic assumption that the basic policies for environmental economic development are known but uncertainties surround the speed of their adoption. In many developing countries the key obstacle is poor governance: consequently, renewable resources continue to be mined, non-renewable resources are depleted irresponsibly, and reductions in pollution intensity lag...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Development and Natural Resources in the Mekong Region: the Institutional Challenge

The report can be seen as the first component in a series of analyses, discussions, and perspective papers, on regional institutional innovations for natural resource issues discussed within the REPSI project. In this capacity, it is intended to act as a robust problem statement for the overall regional analysis of REPSI. But the paper is also designed to stand on its own as an independent rese...

Ih5xx: Natural Resources, Health, and Development Draft

The course examines natural resource issues affecting developing countries, and explores the impacts on communities, households, their decisions, and their health. Key resource use issues include water use (drinking, sanitation, and irrigation), agriculture (intensification, pesticide use, and land degradation), fuel wood scarcity, deforestation, conservation, and mining. For each of these issu...

Common Resources and Institutional Sustainability