Managing Africa's Natural Resources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Toward a Coordinated Approach to Natural Resource Management in Africa

   • Kobena T. Hanson, Francis Owusu, Cristina D’Alessandro

   Pages 1-14

3. The Status of Natural Resource Management in Africa: Capacity Development Challenges and Opportunities

   • Joseph Ayee

   Pages 15-38

4. Governance of Natural Resource Management in Africa: Contemporary Perspectives

   • Peter Arthur

   Pages 39-65

5. Criminality in the Natural Resource Management Value/Supply Chain

   • Olawale Ismail, Jide Martyns Okeke

   Pages 66-90

6. Structured Transformation and Natural Resources Management in Africa

   • William G. Moseley

   Pages 91-117

7. Strategic Capacity-Building Imperatives Vital for Transboundary Water Cooperation in Africa

   • Claudious Chikozho

   Pages 118-139

8. The Gas and Oil Sector in Ghana: The Role of Civil Society and the Capacity Needs for Effective Environmental Governance

   • Cristina D’Alessandro, Kobena T. Hanson, Francis Owusu

   Pages 140-161

9. The Capacity Question, Leadership, and Strategic Choices: Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resources Management in Africa

   • Korbla P. Puplampu

   Pages 162-184

10. Debating Critical Issues of Green Growth and Energy in Africa: Thinking beyond Our Lifetimes

    • Abbi M. Kedir

    Pages 185-205

11. Moving Africa beyond the Resource Curse: Defining the “Good-Fit” Approach Imperative in Natural Resource Management and Identifying the Capacity Needs

    • Francis Owusu, Cristina D’Alessandro, Kobena T. Hanson

    Pages 206-225

12. Afterword

    • Timothy M. Shaw

    Pages 226-236

13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-250

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The authors investigate well-known concerns in natural resource management in Africa while focusing on the capacity dimension of the problems. They examine dynamics of leadership, governance, criminality, structural transformation, as well as emerging issues such as green growth.

• development
• environment
• Governance
• growth
• sustainability

• African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Zimbabwe

  Kobena T. Hanson, Cristina D’Alessandro

• Iowa State University, USA

  Francis Owusu

Peter Arthur, Dalhousie University, Canada Joseph Ayee, MountCrest University College, Ghana Claudious Chikozho, University of Pretoria, South Africa Olawale Ismail, International Alert, UK Abbi M. Kedir, University of Leicester, UK William Moseley, Macalester College, USA Jide Martyns Okeke, African Union Commission, Ethiopia Korbla P. Puplampu, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada ?

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