Natural resources and the persistence of rural poverty in America: A Weberian perspective on the role of power, domination, and natural resource bureaucracy

Natural Resource-Based Communities, Risk, and Disaster: An Intersection of Theories

“…Indeed, there is substantial research on natural resource-based communities that conveys such a perspective (cf. West 1994;Humphrey et al 1993;Krannich and Luloff 1991;Gaventa 1980). Given this condition, natural resource-based communities are routinely viewed as being particularly vulnerable to risks and disasters.…”

Resource dependency and development options in coastal Southeast Asia

“…Resource-dependent communities often can be characterized as economically impoverished and politically marginal (Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty, 1993). Finally, resource-dependent communities are vulnerable to decisions made by governments and outside investors, external actors whose decisions often determine the fortunes of resource-dependent communities (Peluso et al, 1994;West, 1982West, , 1994. The existence of each of these challenges in the North American context is widely appreciated.…”

Sociology's potential to improve forest management and inform forest policy

“…The nexus of these resource use regimes and the benefit streams they produce, "differentially attract and hold the rural poor and the non-poor" (1994). In another article, West (1994) focuses on the role natural resource bureaucracies play in creating pockets of rural poverty. Duncan and Lamborghini (1994) examine cultural dimensions of poverty in a coal mining region in Appalachia and in a forestdependent region of northern New England.…”