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Governing natural resources for inclusive development

| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence, pp. 86-115. Edited by S. Hickey, K. Sen, B. Bukenya. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | Abstract: This chapter addresses institutional and political relationships that govern the interactions between natural resource extraction, economy and society with a focus on the mining and […]

Political Ecologies of the Subsoil

| By A. Bebbington and J. Bury | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J.Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. | Excerpt: If the 2009 box-­ office hit Avatar showed anything, it was that the political ecology of the subsoil can make for great commercial […]

Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: an introduction

| By S. Batterbury and A. Bebbington | Published in Land Degradation and Development, vol. 10 (4): 279-288 | Abstract: This paper forms the introduction to a special issue of this journal entitled ‘Environmental Histories, Access to Resources and Landscape Change’, that poses challenges to the ways in which the multiple dimensions of resource degradation are understood, […]

Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change

| Edited by S. Batterbury and A. Bebbington | Special issue of Land Degradation and Development, vol. 10 No. 4 | | Full text (limited access) | Summary: This special issue poses challenges to the ways in which the multiple dimensions of resource degradation are understood, analyzed and acted upon in developing countries