Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nForeword\nSECTION I Introduction\n1 An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa\nSECTION II Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels\n2 Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: “New Governance” Insights from South Africa\n3 The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana’s “Oil City”: How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi\n4 Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Oil\n5 Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda\n6 Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors\nSECTION III Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement\n7 Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development\n8 “The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths”: An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism\n9 Promoting Mining Local Procurement through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO’s Eforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry\n10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa\n11 “Community Development” in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project\nSECTION IV Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus\n12 Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic\n13 Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo\n14 China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing’s Foreign Policy in Africa\nSECTION V Concluding Remarks and Reflections\n15 Reflections on Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa in the 2020s\nContributors\nIndex