"The 2016 Nobel Laureate in Literature has eloquently characterized the coal situation today: "The times they are a-changin'." On or about December 2010, the coal industry worldwide seemed to be in great shape. Global demand for coal had not only recovered from the 2008 recession, but was by...

Introduction: Boom and bust : extractive industries and African states in the twenty-first century / Jon Schubert, Ulf Engel and Elíso Macamo -- Africa's re-enchantment with big infrastructure : white elephants dancing in virtuous circles? / Paul Nugent -- Port geographies : Africa's...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Charts, Tables, Boxes and Appendixes -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Economic Development, Resource Governance and Globalisation: The Growth of China's Resources Companies -- 2 Resource Security and Corporate Social...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: governing in the extractive industries; Part I Legal, socio-political and institutional contexts of extraction; 1 Tendencies in tension: resource governance and social...