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"Following a wave of oil discoveries in Africa, Oil-Age Africa offers new perspectives and critical reflections on the prevalent academic discourses on oil in Africa. This collection brings together researchers from the social sciences to challenge simplified readings of the complex realities of oil politics, economies and societies through theoretical critique and 'on the ground' ethnographic methods. Climate change highlights the need to understand the intricate ways societies are built on and for oil energy. Oil-Age Africa analyses the effects of oil production and the global energy structure, offering relevant insights and avenues for future research on oil"--

This new sourcebook admirably illuminates the spectrum of integrated policy interventions necessary to transform natural resource wealth into sustainable development, ranging from the allocation of resource extraction rights to the use and distribution of revenues. It recognizes and emphasizes the importance of the political and institutional context. The sourcebook ably breaks down the implications of the type of natural resource, describes the organization of the industry, and provides illustrative examples and useful citations from the literature. How individual governments, companies, and the world as a whole approach the management and governance of mineral and energy resources will be important in determining the success or failure of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Given the breadth of the SDGs and the targets therein, as well as the myriad challenges of natural resource governance, the new sourcebook and the community of researchers and practitioners that continues to grow around it will help to shed light on the path ahead

Governing in the extractive industries : an introduction / Lori Leonard and Siba N. Grovogui -- Tendencies in tension : resource governance and social contradictions in contemporary Bolivia / Tom Perreault -- Mining, criminalization, and the right to protest : everyday constructions of the post-neoliberal Ecuadorian state / Emily Billo -- Preserving illusions : the rule of law and legitimacy under the Chad Pipeline Project / Siba N. Grovogui -- "We own this oil" : artisanal refineries, extractive industries and the politics of oil in Nigeria / Omolade Adunbi -- Converting threats to power : methane extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda / Kristin Doughty -- Politics in the public sphere : ENGOs and oil companies in the international climate negotiations, 1987-2001 / Simone Pulver -- Preventing the resource curse : ethnographic notes on an economic experiment / Gisa Weszkalnys -- Illness, compensation, and claims for justice : lessons from the Choropampa mercury spill / Fabiana Li -- Wars of words : experts, oil, and environmental governance in Chad / Lori Leonard -- Post-script : mapping neo-extractive frontiers across Africa and Latin America / Brenda Chalfin

The Concluding Statement from an October 2012 Global Seminar on the Role of Parliaments and Extractive Industries points to steps Parliaments can take to ensure that the development of mineral, oil and gas resources is a benefit rather than a curse for their societies. Parliamentarians from selected resource-rich Commonwealth jurisdictions shared experiences with experts from international organizations to identify problems and solutions. Adapted from the source document.

Racial tensions and predatory extractive policies, ingrained since the colonial era, have intensified as a major new oil discovery raises the stakes of political combat.

The taxation of non-renewable resources in Latin America : introduction and overview -- The effects of commodity taxation on sector performance -- Towards efficient taxation of minerals : the case of copper in Chile -- Two sectors, two approaches : resource taxation in Peru -- Not all fields are created equal : the challenge of oil taxation in Venezuela -- Regulation and state intervention in non-renewable natural resources : the cases of the oil and gas sectors in Argentina -- Oil sector performance and institutions in Latin America -- Transparency matters -- Index

GREAT BRITAIN CAN USE THE LESSONS OF CANADIAN EXPERIENCE: THE CANADIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS MANAGED TO RECONCILE THE INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY WITH THOSE OF THE STATE OF ALBERTA, WHERE OIL IS PRODUCED.

The following 11-part document is a reprint of a fall 2000 bulletin published by the Assoc of Concerned African Scholars (ACAS). Here, ACAS has chosen to address the role of Western oil companies in Africa in order to see if activists running campaigns in the US, Africa, & Europe could together develop a more robust position on oil, development, human rights, & the environment. The aim is to share analyses, strategies, & tactics & to help other groups make oil a focus of their work in these four years of the US oil presidency. It is hoped that this bulletin will open a vigorous debate about oil & energy alternatives, about extractive industries & development, as well as about globalization & the looting of Africa's other resources, including biodiversity. Adapted from the source document.