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EXPLOITING NATURAL RESOURCES

Growth, Instability, and Conflict in the Middle East and Asia

Edited by:

Richard Cronin
Amit Pandya

A publication of the Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project.

Exploiting Natural Resources: Growth, Instability, and Conflict in the Middle East and Asia presents views on the unsustainable exploitation of three key natural resources - forests, water, and extractable minerals - from the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. The regional experts and Stimson analysts discuss the current patterns of resources exploitation in the form of forest clearing, hydropower dams, and mining operations that have implications for domestic and regional stability and human security.

Stimson's Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project is devoted to enhancing the information and analysis available to policymakers about emerging transnational security challenges in the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. For more information on the project, please visit www.stimson.org/rv

Complete Volume [N.B. All contents are in PDF format.]

By chapter:

Title Page, Table of Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments
Introduction

Perspectives from the Regions

Waleed K. Al-Zubari -- Water Resources Management Challenges in the GCC Countries: Four Scenarios
Babar Shahbaz and Abid Qaiyum Suleri -- The Political Economy of Forest Management in Pakistan
Budy P. Resosudarmo et al. -- The Socioeconomic Conflicts in Indonesia's Mining Industry

Interpreting the Trends

Junko Kobayashi -- Making the Connections: Water, Forests, and Minerals Exploitation in South and Southeast Asia
Richard Cronin -- Natural Resources and the Development-Environment Dilemma

Appendix 1: Author Biographies
Appendix 2: Experts Consulted
Appendix 3: Partner Institutions

Notes

Henry L. Stimson Center

ISBN: 978-0-9821935-0-1