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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