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The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global
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The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity Hardcover - 2010

by Collier, Paul

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Collier ("The Bottom Billion") builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of nature.

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  • Title The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
  • Author Collier, Paul
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-05-11
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2Y6RVS002LU4_ns
  • ISBN 9780195395259 / 0195395255
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sustainable development, Natural resources - Management
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009047333
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.7

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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. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.

Grounded in a belief in the power of informed citizens, Collier proposes a series of international standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage those resources, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a clear-headed approach to climate change that acknowledges the benefits of industrialization while addressing the need for alternatives to carbon trading. Revealing how all of these forces interconnect, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future.

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  • Choice, 12/01/2010, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/2010, Page 69
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/08/2010, Page 36

About the author

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. In addition to the award-winning The Bottom Billion, he is the author of Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places.

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