Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Foreword xiii
5. SECTION I Introduction
6. 1 An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa 3
7. SECTION II Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels
8. 2 Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: “New Governance” Insights from South Africa 35
9. 3 The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana’s “Oil City”: How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi 59
10. 4 Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Oil 79
11. 5 Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda 101
12. 6 Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors 123
13. SECTION III Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement
14. 7 Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development 149
15. 8 “The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths”: An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism 173
16. 9 Promoting Mining Local Procurement through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO’s Eforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry 201
17. 10 The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa 221
18. 11 “Community Development” in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project 239
19. SECTION IV Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus
20. 12 Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic 263
21. 13 Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo 285
22. 14 China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing’s Foreign Policy in Africa 305
23. SECTION V Concluding Remarks and Reflections
24. 15 Reflections on Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa in the 2020s 329
25. Contributors 349
26. Index 359