The plundered planet : why we must, and how we can, manage nature for global prosperity / Paul Collier.

Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the wo...

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Main Author: Collier, Paul (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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520 8 |a Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world's poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. 
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505 0 |a Poverty and plunder -- Is nature priceless? -- Cursed by nature? -- Discovering natural assets -- The capture of natural assets -- Selling the family silver -- Investing in investing -- Is a fish a natural asset? -- Natural liabilities -- Romance and hunger -- Restoring natural order. 
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650 0 |a Sustainable development. 
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