Theories in the Study of Natural Resource-Dependent Communities and Persistent Rural Poverty in the United States

The paper examines the range of currency and exchange rate regimes choices facing small countries living next to large currency blocs, such as the euro area and the United States. It draws on Canada's successful experience in the 1990s with a flexible exchange rate and explicit inflation targets to argue that such a monetary rule may be the appropriate policy alternative for small countries in this situation such as the United Kingdom or Norway, that are unwilling to surrender their national currency or their monetary independence for economic or political reasons. Because the Canadian economy is more dependent on the production of natural resource products than the economy of its major trading partner, the United States, Canada's flexible exchange rate plays a valuable role in helping to stabilise the Canadian economy in the face of global shocks to natural resource prices.

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Complementary and Competitive Regimes of Accumulation: Natural Resources and Development in the World-System

Journal of World-Systems Research ◽

10.5195/jwsr.2012.490 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 50-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Astra Bonini

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Economic Development ◽

Natural Resource ◽

World Economy ◽

The United States ◽

Raw Material ◽

Economic Mobility ◽

The World ◽

Post War

During the post-war period, natural resource production has often been associated withperipheralization in the world-economy. This paper seeks to demonstrate that this associationdoes not hold when examined from a long-term perspective, and explains the conditions underwhich natural resource production can support upward economic mobility in the world-system.First, this paper provides evidence that the production of cash crops and resource extraction hasnot always equaled peripheralization in the world-economy, as demonstrated by, among otherthings, the upward economic mobility of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealandduring the nineteenth century. It then puts forth a new hypothesis that the existence ofopportunities for raw material producing countries depends on whether the hegemonic regime ofaccumulation at a given time structures the economy in a way that is either complementary orcompetitive to the economic development of raw material producing countries. By examining theBritish centered regime of accumulation during the nineteenth century, we find that it wascomparatively complementary to economic development in raw material producing countrieswhereas the twentieth century United States centered regime was comparatively competitive withraw material producers. Based on a comparison with Britain and the United States, the paperalso suggests that Chinas increasingly central role in the world-economy may be comparativelycomplementary to economic development in raw material producing countries.

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Liability for Damage to Public Natural Resources under the 2004 EC Environmental Liability Directive: Standing and Assessment of Damages

Environmental Law Review ◽

10.1177/146145290500700202 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 90-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edward H.P. Brans

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Natural Resources ◽

Natural Resource ◽

Oil Pollution ◽

Civil Liability ◽

The United States ◽

Environmental Liability ◽

Locus Standi ◽

The Us

This article focuses on the April 2004 EC Directive on Environmental Liability (Directive 2004/35/CE). It examines its measure of damages, its framework for assessing damages and its provisions regarding the issue of standing. Comparisons will regularly be made with the United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990, its natural resource damage regulations and its provisions on locus standi. Finally, a comparison is made with international civil liability conventions that cover damage to natural resources. The goal of the analysis is to show that the Directive's rules on assessing damages are inspired by the natural resource damage regulations of the US Oil Pollution Act, and secondly, to show that there is a difference between the measure of damages in the international civil liability conventions and the new Directive. *

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Targeting the Local: Policing Clandestine Methamphetamine Production in a Rural US Community

Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société ◽

10.1017/s082932010001019x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

William Garriott

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Rural Community ◽

Natural Resource ◽

The United States ◽

Local Production ◽

Police Power ◽

Resource Officers ◽

The Impact

AbstractIn the United States, state-based efforts to curtail the spread of methamphetamine (“meth”) have targeted domestic producers through heightened regulation of precursor chemicals used in the clandestine meth-production process. This article examines the impact of these efforts on the exercise of police power in a rural community affected by methamphetamine. As the author shows, the targeting of local meth production has incorporated residents of rural communities into the policing process by variously encouraging and requiring them to adopt a new way of perceiving the local landscape, centred around methamphetamine. Under the new legislation, previously benign objects such as cold medicine, batteries, and drain cleaner have been re-signified as objects with criminal potential that residents of rural communities are called upon to police. This has led to the expansion of police power within and beyond the formal domains of law enforcement. Through the targeting of local production, civic volunteers, pharmacists, retail clerks, natural resource officers, and others have been drawn into the policing of the meth problem. This reveals a key dynamic in the localization of police power: as police power is localized, the local is reimagined in terms of police power.

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Trends in Natural Resource Commodities: Statistics of Prices, Output, Consumption, Foreign Trade, and Employment in the United States. 1870-1957.

The Economic History Review ◽

10.2307/2592656 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 616

Author(s):

Eric E. Lampard ◽

Neal Potter ◽

Francis T. Christy ◽

Stanley Lebergott

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Foreign Trade ◽

Natural Resource ◽

The United States

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Tough Problems, Science Gaps, and Investment Priorities for Forest-Sector Research: Conversations at Seven Dialogues

Journal of Forestry ◽

10.1093/jofore/fvz039 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 117 (5) ◽

pp. 462-491

Author(s):

Richard W Guldin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Small Group ◽

Natural Resource ◽

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

The United States ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Ecological Changes ◽

Sector Research ◽

Science Governance

Abstract At seven small-group dialogues held across the United States, field natural-resource professionals were asked to describe the toughest problems facing them over the next 10–15 years. Thirty-five problems were identified, spanning all three components of sustainability—ecological, economic, and social. Most were socioeconomic problems related to people’s choices and values. Key science gaps contributing to the problems’ toughness and top investment priorities to fill critical gaps were described. The problems and priorities identified were then compared to ones identified since 1996 by panels of experts who compiled previous national research reports. Field professionals’ views were consistent with the previous findings and illustrated they have detailed, nuanced understandings of the challenges facing them. Top priorities from the dialogues suggest that socioeconomic forces driving ecological changes are poorly understood. Potential mitigation measures will depend on broader interdisciplinary research delving into sciences beyond ecology, such as demographics, sociology, political science, governance, and economics.

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