Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas [Hardcover]

This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact.Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs.Governing Extractive Industriessynthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. It analyses resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia, focusing on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. The authors focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact, exploring the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production.1. Resource extraction and inclusive development: extending the bases of the political settlements approach2. Mining, political settlements, and inclusive development in Peru3. Political settlements, natural resource extraction, and inclusion in Bolivia4. The politics of natural resource extraction in Zambia5. Competitive clientelism and the political economy of mining in Ghana6. Conclusions: Interpreting the politics of natural resource extractionAnthony Bebbington is Australia Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and from 2010-2017 was Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University where he is also Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and SolÃÛ