Natural Resources: Australia’s War on Drought

War, Trade and Natural Resources: A Historical Perspective

War and Trade are two human activities that are so intrinsic to the species that it is impossible to assign any moment in its evolution at which either of them first " appeared ". Every stage of socio-political evolution, from hunting and gathering to agriculture and animal husbandry and on to the commercial and industrial nations of today, has seen people conducting trade and warfare, both wit...

The Impact of Natural Resources on Innovation

N owadays, innovation considered as the most important factor, which can affect economic growth extraordinary. Therefore, investigating the effect of variables affecting innovation has priority. In this study, we try to investigate 1) the natural resource curse hypothesis and 2) the effect of institutional quality on the way in which natural resources affects innovation. To investiga...

Tourism And Natural Resources

On Harnessing Natural Resources for Sustainable Development

Is the Present Pace of Economic Development Sustainable? The mainstream economics has characteristically been myopic in visualizing the relationship between human beings and the ecosphere, the surrounding in which they live, work and prosper. Man thought that everything, whether animate or inanimate, exists for him and he exists only for himself. Nature is bountiful to him; moreover, nature is ...

War and Natural Resource Exploitation

Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Controversies and contradictions in the stylized facts persist because resource extraction is treated as exogenous while in reality fighting affects extraction. We study endogenous fighting, armament, and extraction method, speed and investment. Rapacio...