Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie - Böcker

This book provides a broad and multi-country perspective on natural resource development and governance in sub-Saharan Africa. It looks beyond the resource curse to examine the intricate dynamics that underpin the public policies and corporate strategies that define natural resource management in Africa. Through exploring environmental transparency and accountability, the need to reduce corruption within the resource sector and empower local communities is highlighted. The importance of using mineral proceeds to reduce inequality and poverty is also discussed, with a particular focus on the protection of marginalised groups, indigenous peoples, and gender equality.This book presents a framework for natural resource management that produces sustainable development and a fair distribution of profits. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers working within resource, development, and African economics.

This book provides novel perspectives to the ongoing global discussions on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach taken in the book is unique as it presents holistic viewpoints about the synergies, opportunities and challenges between circular economy and SDGs targets in developing and emerging countries.

This book provides novel perspectives to the ongoing global discussions on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach taken in the book is unique as it presents holistic viewpoints about the synergies, opportunities and challenges between circular economy and SDGs targets in developing and emerging countries.

This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur—drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE). CE is defined as regenerative system that minimizes waste, emission, and energy leakage by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops. In principle, CE departs from the traditional linear model of take-make-use-dispose. As conceived in urban contexts, circular cities offer possibilities to regenerate natural systems, design out waste, and keep products in use. While the CE key principles of reduce, repair, and reuse are essential to the sustainable and inclusive interventions in urban slums, there is lack of case studies exploring the role of place and agency, especially the slum living-CE nexus in global south contexts. In inequitable urban transitions, a nuanced understanding of thesynergies between urban slums and the circular economy is not only theoretically relevant for reconceptualizing the slum in urban sustainability discourses but also exert policy and practice ramifications to decidedly figure out how the urban slum phenomenon can foster the sustainable and inclusive development of marginal areas through contextual and people-centered initiatives.