Publications & Documents

Natural Resources and Pro-Poor Growth: The Economics and Politics

This publication demonstrates that natural resources can contribute to growth, employment, exports and fiscal revenues. It highlights the importance of policies encouraging the sustainable management of these resources, while emphasizing the special governance challenges.

OECD Environment Working Paper: Greening Development Planning

The report reviews different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of environment and natural resources in national planning.

Greening Development Planning: A Review of Country Case Studies for Making the Economic Case for Improved Management of Environment and natural Resources - Environment Working Paper No. 5

This working paper reviews different approaches to making the economic case for improved management of natural capital in national planning. In many low-income countries natural resources sectors (agriculture, mining, forestry, fishery) are identified as the engines of economic growth.

Workshop on the Economics of Rebuilding Fisheries

Information on the OECD Workshop on the Economics of Rebuilding Fisheries, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 21-22 May 2009.

Household Behaviour and the Environment: Reviewing the Evidence (English version only)

Based on a review of empirical studies, this book analyses the determinants of environmental behaviour in five key areas where households exert pressure on the environment: energy use, transport, waste generation, food consumption and water use.

Environmental compliance assurance: Trends and good practices

The key objectives of the conference were to exchange experiences on the good practices and trends in environmental compliance assurance in OECD countries and major emerging economies based on the draft project report; and agree on a limited number of emerging compliance assurance issues.

Global Change in African Fish Trade: Engine of Development or Threat to Local Food Security?

Trade in fish does not lead to a decline in food security and availability of fish for the population of developing countries, according to this study of industrial and small-scale fisheries in the economy of Sub-Sahara Africa.

Environmental Policy, Technological Innovation and Patents (2008)

This report presents three case studies to illustrate the relationship between environmental policy and technological innovation.

Space Technologies and Climate Change - Implications for Water Management, Marine Resources and Maritime Transport

Multilingual Dictionary of Fish and Fish Products - Fifth Edition