The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity pdf

Paul Collier is Deputy Director of the MBA Program. His background includes roles as CFO and General Manager of a listed manufacturing company and Head of Training for a police force. He joined Monash in 2006 after having spent 7 years at Aston Business School in the UK. At Monash Paul has been a Professor of Accounting, Deputy Head of the (then) Department of Accounting & Finance, and Associate Dean for research training. Paul has researched and published in governance, risk management, strategy, management control and performance measurement in both the private and public sectors and has been on the board of several not-for-profit organisations. Paul was appointed Deputy Director of the Monash Business School MBA program in 2017.

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity pdf by Paul M. Collier

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. The Economist wrote that it was "set to become a classic," the Financial Times praised it as "rich in both analysis and recommendations," while Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called it the "best nonfiction book so far this year." Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of nature. 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 rich 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 these are all interconnected, The Plundered Planet charts a way forward to avoid the mismanagement of the natural world that threatens our future.