Natural Resources and Prolonged Conflict

Natural Resources, Social Conflict and Poverty Trap

The paper analyses a model where the fight for the appropriation of rents from natural resources between two groups leads to multiple equilibria. The possibility to be trapped into the low-income equilibrium, characterized by strong social conflict (civil war) and stagnation of income, increases with the weakness of political institutions, the population growth rate, the amount of rents from na...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Conflict and Production: An Application to Natural Resources

We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural resources. Consistent with amounting empirical evidence regarding a so-called ”resource curse”, we find that the relation between conflict intensity and resourc...

Economics. Linking natural resources to slow growth and more conflict.

Ethics and Participation in Natural Resources Protection

Background: Public participation in decisions regarding natural resources is the easiest way to ‎preserve these resources. It seems that having human of conservation ethics of natural resources, ‎has affect on their participation in the preservation of natural resources. This survey research was ‎done to investigate the relationship between conservation ethics of natural resources and ‎particip...