A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...

This study provides information designed to encourage sectoral social dialogue in the extractive industries sector. The aim of Eurofound’s series of representativeness studies is to identify the relevant national and supranational social partner organisations in the field of industrial...

"Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life. Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and...

The concept of natural resource rents is much used in the natural resource economics literature. It is therefore somewhat surprising that in this same literature it is difficult to find a clear definition of the concept. Possibly as a result, the concept is often loosely employed and in some...

Bei der Nutzung von Umwelt und Natur konkurriert die heutige Generation mit zukünftigen Generationen. Mineralische Brennstoffe wie Erdöl, die wir heute verwenden, sind in der Zukunft nicht mehr vorhanden, metallische Rohstoffe lediglich durch die Wiederverwendung teilweise zurückgewinnbar....

Der Einsatz fossiler Energieträger hängt in entscheidendem Umfang von den Kosten ihrer Bereitstellung ab. Unter diesen Kosten nehmen die Aufwendungen für die Förderung der Energierohstoffe einen wesentlichen Stellenwert ein. Ziel dieser Untersuchung ist die Bestimmung der Stückkosten der...