Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

This book contributes to the debate on resource politics from a fairness and justice perspective.

1. Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics: An Introduction Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza and Fernando Ruiz Peyré Part 1: Conceptual Approaches to Resource Fairness and Justice 2. Liberal Global Justice and Social Science Shmuel Nili 3. What's Democracy Got to Do With It? A Political Ecology Perspective on Socio-ecological Justice Melanie Pichler 4. Social Costs and Resource Creation: Essential Elements of a Political Economy Approach to Resource Fairness Werner Raza Part 2: Empirical Cases on Resource Fairness and Justice 5. Integrated Water Resources Management in Brazil: Participatory Approaches as a Way to Resource Justice? Tobias Schmitt 6. Claims for Local Justice in Natural Resource Conflicts: Lessons from Peru's Mining Sector Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Annegret Flohr and Andreas Jacobs 7. Corporate Social Responsibility: A Globally Applicable Tool to Manage Community-company Relations in the Extractive Sector? Johanna Sydow 8. Increasing Fairness in Global Value Chains? Possibilities and Limitations of Fair Trade Standards for the Agricultural and Mineral Sector Jutta Kister and Fernando Ruiz Peyré 9. The Soy-production's Fair(y) Tale? Latin American Perspectives on Globalized Dynamics, Territoriality, and Environmental Justice Robert Hafner and Martin Coy 10. Greening the Imperial Mode of Living? Socio-ecological (In)Justice, Electromobility, and Lithium Mining in Argentina Axel Anlauf 11. Foreign Involvement in Small-scale Gold Mining in Ghana and its Impact on Resource Fairness Gordon Crawford and Gabriel Botchwey 12. Elite Capture and the Development of Natural Resource Linkages in Mozambique Lars Buur and Celso Marcos Monjane 13. The Agrofuels Project in Ukraine: How Oligarchs and the EU Foster Agrarian Injustice Christina Plank 14. Price Risks and Resource Fairness in Commodity Trading: The Cotton and Coffee Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa Cornelia Staritz, Bernhard Tröster and Karin Küblböck 15. Responsibility for Financing Biodiversity Conservation: An Analysis of the Convention on Biological Diversity Ina Lehmann