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The shortage of raw materials in global markets and the sky rocketing of commodityprices, have induced European authorities to take initiatives to improve innovation inEurope by creating the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials (2012) and make inventory of the existing European raw materials. Albania is a rich country in natural raw materials, such as chromium, copper, ferronickel, coal, bitumen as well ascrude oil which might supply primary and secondary raw materials for some of the European needs. This literature review discusses the role of the Albanian institutions, the natural resources industry, potential investors and stakeholders in order to provide a setof indicators and platforms that can help to develop the extractive industry in Albania and monitor amelioration within sustainable development principles. A map with the potential prospects of the natural resources will be a first step in identifying the further potential for exploitation. Mineral resource policies and governance, sustainable processing and supply chain as well as environmental management information system (EMIS) are some of the crucial tools identified, which will help to set up the indicators and quantify the achievements in environmental management in Albania. Moreover, the integration of practices that will support institutional capacity building; follow-up practices; the mainstreaming of global environment into planning; and the compliance monitoring process will additionally improve the environmental situation in Albania. Aligning business strategy with environmental policy, socio-economic analysis, environmental auditing are decisive tools in order to provide the Albanian authorities with a clear overview of the economic costs and the social benefits for sustainable development of the extractive sector in Albania.

Purpose
This paper aims to examine the effects of extractive activities on the well-being of local communities and assesses stakeholder expectations of resource benefits and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices of oil companies in Ghana.


Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses a qualitative approach based on an exploratory research design to investigate the opinions and experiences of stakeholders in the growing oil and gas industry in Ghana.


Findings
The empirical findings demonstrate that entry negotiated agreements and local content requirements in the offshore oil industry have minimal benefits because of the lack of linkages with the economies of local communities. Additionally, the nature of CSR practices within the extractive industry is directly traceable to the resource governance arrangements and plural logics in Ghana's institutional context.


Research limitations/implications
This study only provides insights into natural resource governance and CSR issues in offshore oil and gas projects. Thus, the findings are not generalisable to the entire industry, including onshore drilling, which have other sustainability issues.


Practical implications
This research highlights the gap in natural resource management in Ghana and the effects of community expectations on CSR practices in the oil and gas industry. Therefore, this study posits the significance for including compliance requirements for improving the well-being of host communities in entry negotiated agreements and local contents.


Originality/value
By highlighting the nuanced issues in natural resource management within the oil and gas industry in Ghana, this paper makes significant contributions to the CSR and sustainability literature.

This essay situates Guyana's recent election standoff in a longer, relatively unbroken trajectory of racially divisive politics. It explores how historically oppressed peoples have directed their hostility at each other while governments have worked with extractive industries to perpetuate a neo-imperial economic structure. The recent discovery of major offshore oil deposits has started a new cycle of this economic dependency on commodity exports and multinational corporations while raising the stakes of racialized domestic political competition.

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.

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.