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"Preface" [2011] ELECD 399; in Botchway, N. Francis (ed), "Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Natural Resource Investment and Africa’s Development

Editor(s): Botchway, N. Francis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848446793

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface
This work was motivated by the increasing demand for natural resources
and the dearth of inspiring Africa-focused material on the subject. There
is hardly any work anchored in law that deals with the governance, legisla-
tive, relational and contractual issues pertaining to resource exploitation
in Africa. This book seeks to fill the apparent lacuna.
The chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics ­ from governance,
through the need to create a workable constitutional and institutional
arrangement for environmental protection and resources use, manage-
ment, conservation, and responsible investment, to dispute resolution.
These are topics that no comprehensive work on natural resource invest-
ment can avoid. They are dealt with by academics and researchers with a
strong interest in helping to chart a course for Africa's development that is
different from that which the continent has become associated with.
The methodology is both comparative and transnational, drawing on
geographical, historical and sector-specific experiences to advance argu-
ments. If this book contributes to transparency in governance, more judi-
cious application of the returns of resource exploitation, improvement of
the environment, and equitable investment arrangements, we will have
satisfied our aspirations.
For that, we are very grateful to all the contributors for their in-depth
work, the anonymous referees who reviewed each chapter and made very
helpful comments, and of course the staff at Edward Elgar Publishing for
their patience and painstaking and efficient work that made it possible for
this book see the light of day.
The work is ...