Public Brainpower Civil Society and Natural Resource Management
This book examines how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect natural resource governance. Drawing on the theories of Robert Dahl, Jurgen Habermas and Robert Putnam, the book introduces the concept of ‘public brainpower’, proposing that
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Public Brainpower
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Public Brainpower Civil Society and Natural Resource Management
Editor Indra Overland Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Oslo, Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-60626-2 ISBN 978-3-319-60627-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60627-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017953305 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. This book is an open access publication. Open Access The Introduction and the chapters ‘Norway: Public Debate and the Management of Petroleum Resources and Revenues’, ‘Kazakhstan: Civil Society and Natural-Resource Policy in Kazakhstan’, and ‘Russia: Public Debate and the Petroleum Sector’ are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For further details see license information in the chapters. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: @Scott Olson/Getty Images Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Acknowledgements
This book is a product of a three-year project financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The project was carried out by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Moscow School of Civic Education, and involved three one-week seminars in Oslo with international speakers and presentations by representatives of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, the Ministry of Oil and Energy, the environmental NGO Bellona, Publish What You Pay, the SAFE union of oil workers and other organizations. Individual lecturers included Cecilie Hellestveit, Arne Jon Isachsen, Einar Lie, Hilde-Marit Rysst, Martin Skancke and Asle Skredderberget. All of these have helped the book project al
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