Publications


Resource governance dynamics: The challenge of ‘new oil’ in Uganda

Research article by James Van Alstine, Jami Dixon on 1 Feb 2014

Resource governance norms have evolved at multiple scales to counter the potential negative socio-economic, environmental and institutional impacts of the extractive industries. Advocates of these ‘good governance’ initiatives have sought to mainstream transparency throughout the extractive industries value chain and implement pro-poor projects at the site level. However, these types of resource governance interventions often […]



Experiences of host communities with carbon market projects: towards multi-level climate justice

Research article by Stavros Afionis, Jouni Paavola, Andy Dougill, Lindsay Stringer on 2 Dec 2013

Abstract The literature on equity and justice in climate change mitigation has largely focused on North–South relations and equity between states. However, some initiatives (e.g. the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation programme (REDD), and voluntary carbon markets (VCMs)) are already establishing multi-level governance structures that involve communities from […]







Discounting under disagreement

Working paper by Antony Millner, Geoffrey Heal on 1 Apr 2013

NBER Working Paper. A group of agents disagree about the appropriate inter temporal preferences to use when exploiting a common productive resource. read more »