Rights to Resources
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Description
The data included in this spreadsheet were downloaded from the World Resource Institute's Rights to Resources interactive map.
The Rights to Resources interactive map presents the results of a legal review of national laws in sub-Saharan Africa in their treatment of local-use rights to natural resources. As part of WRI’s Land and Resource Rights (LRR) project, national framework laws were reviewed to answer eleven questions regarding rights to five natural resources: water, trees, wildlife, minerals and petroleum. This spreadsheet contains a tab for each resource and answers to the eleven questions by country.
For more information, please visit: http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/land-and-resource-rights
Cautions
Dataset is based on research as of November 2013, some laws may have been amended since. Additionally, foreign language laws (French, Portuguese, Spanish) without official English translations were analyzed with help from native speakers and/or Google Translate.
Citation
World Resources Institute. 2014. 'Rights to Resources: The status of local natural resource rights in national laws in sub-Saharan Africa.' Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. Available online at: http://datasets.wri.org/dataset/rights-to-resources-map
Access & Use Information
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Full license text available at Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Metadata
Project: Land and Resource Rights
Page Last Updated: February 28, 2018
