Elgar companion on inequality and natural resources / edited by Graham A. Davis (Colorado School of Mines, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Graham A., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural resources.

Equality--Economic aspects.

Equality.

Resource curse.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This timely Companion explores the dynamic relationship between inequality and the use and management of natural resources, highlighting the positive and negative interactions between the two. Within the Companion experts from economics and political science present new data, methodologies and narrative contributions that examine how inequality and inequity are fuelled by how we exploit and manage natural resources in the world economy. Analysing inequality both within a country and at an international level, the Companion explores topics such as tropical land use change, affordable access to safe drinking water, mining governance, oil cartels, fiscal policy and unequal resource distribution. Contributors demonstrate that institutional quality is a prerequisite for the equitable use of natural resources, both domestically and internationally. The Companion advances our limited understanding of inequality and its relationship with the natural environment, including understudied areas such as gender and ethnicity. The Elgar Companion on Inequality and Natural Resources is a crucial resource for scholars and students of the natural environment, international development, geography, politics and public policy and sociology. It will also benefit managers and actors responsible for managing and taxing natural resources and multilateral agencies who assist governments in managing their natural resource wealth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction: Inequality and natural resources / Graham A. Davis and Philip Nel

Part I: Narrative contributions relating to within-country inequality

2. Tropical land use change, biodiversity loss and inequality / Edward B. Barbier

3. Addressing intergovernmental distributional impacts of climate fiscal risks / Giorgio Brosio, Juan Pablo Jim�nez and Ignacio Ruelas Avila

4. Modernizing oil and gas royalties in British columbia: A corporate taxation balancing act and its implications for income inequality / Grant Nlle and Graham A. Davis

5. Affordable access to reliable and safe drinking water: Issues and implications for inequality in developed countries / Steven M. Smith and Julia Talbot-Jones

Part II: Empirical contributions relating to within-country inequality

6. Principal components of institutions, diversification, and growth / Thorvaldur Gylfason and Gylfi Zoega

7. Oil rents and educational inequality: New cross-country evidence / Soran Mohtadi and Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

8. Decarbonization and inequality from the supply side: Mining and education in peru / Osmel Manzano and Daniela Valdivia

Part III: Narrative contributions relating to / International Inequality

9. Mining governance and resource inequality in the central African / Copperbelt Kristian Kastner Warpinski, Fabien Mayani and Barbara J. Smith

10. Electric vehicles: Contested temporalities in critical minerals and resource extraction / Joseph Nyangon

11. Inequality built in: Geopolitics and the systemic impact of unequal resource distribution / Samuel R. Schubert

12. Oil cartels, economic growth, and inequality / John R. Heilbrunn

13. Technological advances in critical metal recovery and their implications for sustainable development and inequality / Jihye Kim and Nicole M. Smith

Part IV: Empirical contributions relating to / International Inequality

14. Queer in the quarry: The political economy of lgbt rights and extractive resources / Elissaios Papyrakis and Luca Tasciotti

15. The spatial curse of natural resources and its effect on cross-country income inequality / Fabrizio Carmignani.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035327379 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.