From curse to blessing?
Subtitle: using natural resources to fuel sustainable development
By: [edited by] Irakli Khodeli.
Contributors: Khodeli, Irakli.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; UNESCO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA; [Paris]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781405192637; 9781405196970
Subjects: Sustainable development; Natural resources
Other titles: Using natural resources to fuel sustainable development; International social science journal.
Description: This book provides seven studies that addressmajor issues such as the human rights and human security nexus, gender aspects of human security, ethical and environmental challenges, human security as a basic element for a policy framework, the human security agenda developed by the Human Security Network, and debates on human security within the United Nations.: Building on its variety of themes, the book takes account of the complexity and scope of the concept of human security, and proposes thereby to refresh and enrich discussion; Contributors are internationally renowned experts in the dif.
Notes: "International social science journal"--Contents page.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.
Table of contents: title: Resolving conflicts of interest in state-owned enterprises / Jenik Radon and Julius Thaler; title: The devil's excrement as social cement: natural resources and political terror, 1980-2002 / Indra de Soysa and Helga Malmin Binningsbø; title: Natural resource rent-cycling outcomes in Botswana, Indonesia and Venezuela / Richard M. Auty; title: Governance strategies to remedy the natural resource curse / Joseph Siegle; title: Budget transparency and development in resource-dependent countries / Paolo de Renzio, Pamela Gomez and James Sheppard; title: Before the peak: impacts of oil shortages on the developing world / Ben W. Ebenhack and Daniel M. Martínez; title: A view from the field. Social and economic implications of oil policy development in Nigeria / Alexis Rwabizambuga; title: The public oversight of oil projects in Azerbaijan, 2004-2007 / Farda Asadov; title: Energy relations in Russia: administration, politics and security / Andrey Makarychev; title: Doing business with integrity: the experience of AngloGold Ashanti in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Paul Kapelus, Ralph Hamann and Edward O'Keefe; title: A view from the industry. The International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association social responsibility working group and human rights / Jenny Owens and Richard Dykes.