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The Capacity Question, Leadership, and Strategic Choices: Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resources Management in Africa

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Managing Africa’s Natural Resources

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Africa has abundant natural resources, and their effective utilization is essential in enhancing the region’s development conditions in the 21st century (NEPAD 2003; UNDP 2003). At the global level, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include a specific goal (MDG 7) focused on environmental sustainability. What is remarkable is that the goal of environmental sustainability is integral to the attainment of all the other MDGs. For example, sustainable management of natural resources is crucial in any program to alleviate poverty (MDG 1) and childhood mortality (MDG 4) (UNEP 2007; Ochola et al. 2010; WWF and AfDB 2012). The African Union, the continental political body, has spearheaded several initiatives at the dawn of the new millennium aimed at a better understanding of the role of natural resources and environmental stewardship in the African development discourse (NEPAD 2003; African Union and NEPAD 2010).

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Puplampu, K.P. (2014). The Capacity Question, Leadership, and Strategic Choices: Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resources Management in Africa. In: Hanson, K.T., D’Alessandro, C., Owusu, F. (eds) Managing Africa’s Natural Resources. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137365613_8

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