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This book discusses how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect the management of natural resources. Drawing on the work of Robert Dahl, Jürgen Habermas and Robert Putnam, the book introduces the concept of public brainpower. Good governance of natural resources requires fertile public debate - to conceive new institutions, to provide checks and balances on existing institutions and to ensure their continuous dynamic evolution as the needs of society change.
The book explores the strengths and weaknesses of these ideas through case studies of 18 oil and gas-producing countries: Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the UK and Venezuela. The concluding chapter presents 10 tenets on how states can maximize their public brainpower, as well as a ranking of how well 33 resource-rich countries have succeeded in doing so.
Four of the chapters - 'Introduction', 'Norway', 'Kazakhstan' and 'Russia' - are available under a CC BY 4.0 Open Access license at link.springer.com.
Contents
Introduction: Civil Society, Public Debate and Natural Resource Management (Indra Overland).- Algeria (Paola Rivetti and Francesco Cavatorta).- Angola (Jesse Salah Ovadia).- Azerbaijan (Kenan Aslanli).- Canada (Shantel Jordison).- Colombia (Carlo Tognato).- Egypt (Robert Springborg).- Iraq (Ibrahim Al Marashi).- Kazakhstan (Roman Vakulchuk and Indra Overland).- Libya (Ebtissam Al Kailani-Chariat).- Netherlands (Aad Correljé).- Nigeria (Cyril Obi).- Norway (Indra Overland).- Qatar (Steven Wright).- Russia (Nina Poussenkova and Indra Overland).- Saudi Arabia (Mark C. Thompson).- The United Arab Emirates (Martin Hvidt).- The United Kingdom (Philip Wright and Juan Carlos Boué).- Venezuela (Ricardo Villasmil).- Variations on Public Brainpower: Findings from Country Case Studies of Oil- and Gas-Producing Countries (Indra Overland).- Lonely Minds: Natural Resource Governance without Input from Society (Indra Overland).
