Conflicts over natural resources in the global South : conceptual approaches / Maarten Bavinck, Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Lorenzo Pellegrini, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Erik Mostert, Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

"A Balkema book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Maarten Bavinck, Erik Mostert and Lorenzo Pellegrini -- 2. Conflict and cooperation on natural resources : justifying the CoCooN programme / Georg Frerks, Ton Dietz and Pieter van der Zaag -- 3. New directions in conflict research from an economics perspective / Syed Mansoob Murshed -- 4. How natural is natural? Seeking conceptual clarity over natural resources and conflicts / Marcel Rutten and Moses Mwangi -- 5. Analysing the role of politics in groundwater management : research in Ethiopia, Palestine and Yemen / Ebel Smidt, Taye Alemayehu, Adel Al Weshali, Karen Assaf, Abdullah Babaqi, D. Abdel Ghafour, Rozemarijn Ter Horst, Frank van Steenbergen, Kifle Woldearegay and Omar Zayed -- 6. Harms, crimes and natural resource exploitation : a green criminological and human rights perspective on land-use change / Damiǹ Zaitch, Tim Boekhout van Solinge and Gudrun Müller -- 7. Property rights, nationalisation and extractive industries in Bolivia and Ecuador / Murat Arsel, Carlos Mena, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Isabella Radhuber -- 8. Engaging legal systems in small-scale gold mining conflicts in three South American countries / Marjo de Theije, Judith Kolen, Marieke Heemskerk, Celine Duijves, Mariana Sarmiento, Alexandra Urǹ, Ingrid Lozada, Helca̕s Ayala, Jorge Perea and Armin Mathis -- 9. Theorizing participatory governance in contexts of legal pluralism : a conceptual reconnaissance of fishing conflicts and their resolution / Maarten Bavinck, Merle Sowman and Ajit Menon -- 10. An analytical framework for assessing the impacts of Jatropha Curcas on local livelihoods / Joleen A. Timko -- 11. Challenges in the design of a research and development programme on conflict and cooperation over natural resources / Jan Joost Kessler, Han van Dijk and Wijnand van Ijssel.

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