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Natural Resources for Sustainable Development
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 12 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Subtitles in Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian
Course details
Syllabus
Module 1: Challenges and opportunities
- History of oil, gas, and mining
- Challenges& opportunities: oil, gas, and mining
- The decision chain of natural resource management (I)
- The decision chain of natural resource management (II)
Module 2: Political economy of natural resources
- How natural resources shape and are shaped by political context
- Corruption trends in the extractive sector
- International governance
- Natural resources& the broader governance framework
- Transparency& accountability
Module 3: Fundamentals of oil, gas, and mining: industry considerations and policy
- From oil well to car - market, players, and extraction process
- From mine to mobile phone - market, players, and extraction process
- How a company decides to invest
- Project development
- Evolving technology
Module 4: Legal overview
- Legal& regulatory frameworks for extractive industries
- Allocation of rights
- Implementation& monitoring of legal frameworks
- International law& the extractive industries
- State-owned enterprises: Role and governance
Module 5: Fiscal regime design and revenue collection
- Resource economics& fiscal regime principles
- Fiscal instruments I: Royalty/tax systems
- Fiscal instruments II: Contract-based systems
- Fiscal regime implementation
Module 6: Anticipating and managing environmental issues
- Environmental challenges and trends: oil and gas
- Environmental challenges and trends: mining
- Managing environmental challenges
- Extractives and climate change
- Environmental impact assessments
Module 7: Community rights
- Social impact and engagement
- Human rights and the mining industry
- Mining and vulnerable populations
- Company-community agreements
Module 8: Artisanal mining
- Introduction to artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)
- Challenges of ASM
- ASM and gender
- Tensions betweenASM and large-scale mining
- Theway forward
Module 9: Revenue management
- Challenges of revenue management
- Policy responses: savings, spending, public debt, and earmarking
- Natural resource funds
- Revenue sharing and decentralization
Module 10: Investing in sustainable development: Economic linkages to the extractives sector
- Introduction to economic linkages
- Local employment
- Local procurement
- Enabling tech transfer
- Downstream linkages
Module 11: Investing in sustainable development: Looking beyond extractives
- Investing in investing
- Leveraging extractive industries for infrastructure
- Resource-for-infrastructure deals
Module 12: Cross-cutting considerations and looking ahead
- Political tripod and authorizing environment
- Engaging citizens
- Aligning extractive industries with theSDGs
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Lisa Sachs
Director
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Patrick Heller
Advisor, Legal and Economic Programs
Natural Resource Governance Institute
NR Faculty
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