Monitoring

 

Monitoring

A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War

2006 | Annual Review of Political Science
Michael Ross

Studies of natural resource wealth and civil war have been hampered by measurement error, endogeneity, lack of robustness, and uncertainty about causal mechanisms. This paper…

Contesting Resources: Rent Seeking, Conflict and the Natural Resource Curse

2006 | Public Choice
Katharina Wick & Erwin Bulte

A growing empirical literature links natural resource abundance and "pointiness" to impeded economic growth and civil strife. We develop rent seeking and conflict models that…

Resource Scarcity and the Prevention of Violent Conflicts

2009 | The Peace and Conflict Review
Renée Gendron and Evan Hoffman

This article argues that resource scarcity creates multiple impacts on conflicts. It can increase the chances that a nonviolent conflict will become violent and it…

National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change

2014 | CNA Military Advisory Board

This report re-examines the impact of climate change on U.S. national security in the context of a more informed, but more complex and integrated world. In the…

Conservation in a Wicked Complex World: Challenges and Solutions

2013 | Edward T. Game, Erik Meijaard, Douglas Sheil, and Eve McDonald-Madden

Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called “wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists possess a legacy…

Mitigating Human Rights Impacts

2014 | Ethical Corporation

A briefing outlining principled corporate management and digging deep to rebuild trust as mechanisms for mitigating human rights impacts and provides guidelines for creating human…

Reconnaissance Investigation of the Rough Diamond Resource Potential and Production Capacity of Côte d’Ivoire

2013 | Peter G. Chirico and Katherine C. Malpeli (USGS)

This report presents the results of a multiyear effort to monitor the diamond mining activities of Côte d’Ivoire’s two main diamond mining areas, Séguéla and…

Targeted Scenario Analysis: A New Approach to Capturing and Presenting Ecosystem Service Values for Decision Makers

2013 | United Nations Development Program

This guidebook provides a step-by-step introduction to Targeted Scenario Analysis (TSA), an innovative analytical approach, developed by UNDP that captures and presents the value of…

Renewable Natural Resources: Practical Lessons for Conflict Sensitive Development

2009 | World Bank
Sandra Ruckstuhl

This paper explores how a “conflict and violence sensitive” framework in project assessment, design and implementation facilitates early identification and mitigation of negative consequences of…