Introduction -- Natural resources and developing countries: an overview -- Natural resource-based economic development in history -- Does natural resource dependence hinder economic development? -- Frontier expansion and economic development -- Explaining land use change in developing countries...

Why is natural resource exploitation not yielding greater benefits for the poor economies? In this second edition of his landmark book, Barbier explores this paradox in three parts. Part I gives a historical review of resource use and development, examining current theories that explain the...

Rethinking investment contracts through a sustainable development lens / Lorenzo Cotula -- China's engagement with Latin America : partnership or plunder? / Carmen G. Gonzalez -- Resource sovereignty in the global environmental order / Jona Razzaque -- The right to water in South Africa :...