Mines, Communities, and States : The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa /
Steinberg, Jessica.
Mines, Communities, and States : The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa / Jessica Steinberg - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xi, 282 p.
When do local communities benefit from natural resource extraction? In some regions of natural resource extraction, firms provide goods and services to local communities, but in others, protest may occur, leading to government regulatory or repressive intervention. Mines, Communities, and States explores these outcomes in Africa, where natural resource extraction is a particularly important source of revenue for states with otherwise limited capacity. Blending a mixture of methodological approaches, including formal modelling, structured case comparison, and quantitative geo-spatial empirical analysis, it argues that local populations are important actors in extractive regions because they have the potential to impose political and economic costs on the state as well as the extractive firm. Jessica Steinberg argues that governments, in turn, must assess the economic benefits of extraction and the value of political support in the region, and make a calculation about how to manage trade-offs that might arise between these alternatives.
9781108758307 9781108476935
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Economic Development
POLITICAL SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Mining
338.2096 STE
Mines, Communities, and States : The Local Politics of Natural Resource Extraction in Africa / Jessica Steinberg - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xi, 282 p.
When do local communities benefit from natural resource extraction? In some regions of natural resource extraction, firms provide goods and services to local communities, but in others, protest may occur, leading to government regulatory or repressive intervention. Mines, Communities, and States explores these outcomes in Africa, where natural resource extraction is a particularly important source of revenue for states with otherwise limited capacity. Blending a mixture of methodological approaches, including formal modelling, structured case comparison, and quantitative geo-spatial empirical analysis, it argues that local populations are important actors in extractive regions because they have the potential to impose political and economic costs on the state as well as the extractive firm. Jessica Steinberg argues that governments, in turn, must assess the economic benefits of extraction and the value of political support in the region, and make a calculation about how to manage trade-offs that might arise between these alternatives.
9781108758307 9781108476935
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Economic Development
POLITICAL SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Mining
338.2096 STE
