Natural Resource Management for Green Growth in Developing Countries
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2019) | Viewed by 194
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural resource management; climate policy; environmental policy instruments; green growth; sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural resource management (both renewable and nonrenewable) has a long tradition in many disciplines. The perspectives have varied over time and between disciplines. For a long time, a major concern was the risk of depletion of nonrenewable resources. That was followed by a greater focus on conservation linked to sustainable development due to the rapid depletion of renewable resources (fisheries, deforestation, loss of species). However, more recently, sustainable development has been replaced by “green growth” in many policies following a series of flagship reports by the World Bank, OECD, UNEP, etc. Finally, this has made various ministries of finance around the world recognize the green agenda.
The focus of this Special Issue will therefore be to critically analyze examples of natural resource management that have the ambition to lead to sustainable economic growth in developing countries. The purpose of the Special Issue is to test whether the current focus on “green growth” and “green economy” actually lives up to its promises. Examples of such applications include but are not limited to:
- Devolved forest management balancing profitability and environmental concerns;
- Highly productive and sustainable catch fisheries and aquaculture;
- High-yielding sustainable agriculture;
- Profitable and sustainable ecotourism benefiting local stakeholders:
- Profitable mining (large- or small-scale) with limited negative environmental and social impacts.
The contribution of this Special Issue would be the focus on natural resources as a basis for growth and development, and what it would take in terms of investments, institutions, and incentives to accomplish that.
Dr. Gunnar Köhlin
Prof. Thomas Sterner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural resource management
- green growth
- sustainability
- productivity
- profitability
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