New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources ― Insights from Africa

The resurgent economic and geopolitical importance of Africa is evidenced by the growing investment by China, India, the United States, Brazil, and other countries in the continent's various natural resources sectors, such as oil, biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and minerals. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the governance of natural resources in Africa and new insights for readers as they navigate the burgeoning research on global governance initiatives and regional and national strategies that seek to improve the governance of natural resources. Moreover, by carefully examining both theoretical and policy-related debates (and drawing upon public opinion data in countries such as Angola and South Sudan), the volume makes important connections between theory and practice surrounding natural resource sectors. Consequently, it offers scholars, graduate students, policy-makers, think-tank researchers, and media with a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the current research being conducted on the governance of natural resources in Africa.

J. Andrew Grant is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, Canada, and a faculty associate with the Queen's Southern African Research Centre. He is the recipient of an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation for his research on governance issues in mineral resource sectors.
W. R. Nadege Compaore is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada graduate scholar in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University, Canada. Her current research investigates the political economy of transparency in oil sectors and draws upon extensive field work conducted in Gabon, Ghana, and South Africa.

Matthew I. Mitchell is an assistant professor at Saint Paul University, Canada. His research on governance, migration, and violent conflict in natural resource sectors in West Africa has been published in several scholarly venues, such as African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Conflict, Security, and Development, and Journal of Contemporary African Studies.