ABSTRACT As the European Union is intensifying its efforts to curb the negative externalities of natural resource extraction on producing countries, the question arises as to what it can learn from earlier initiatives that have aimed to address the challenges of natural resource governance. Present and former reform schemes alike are based on the premise that changes in natural resource management can enable societies to mitigate the negative effects of global demands for their resources. Based in a critique of formalisation-oriented approaches to resource sector reform, this article employs an analytical perspective of human security to investigate the impact of transformations in resource governance on the wellbeing of populations affected by natural resource extraction. It analyses the successes and shortcomings of reforms in natural resource governance across two cases: the forestry sector in Liberia and the diamond sector in Sierra Leone. The study develops recommendations for future strategies striving to improve resource governance.

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自然资源治理的人类安全视角：什么使改革有效？

摘要 随着欧盟加大力度遏制自然资源开采对生产国的负面外部影响，问题在于它可以从旨在应对自然资源治理挑战的早期举措中学到什么。现在和以前的改革计划都基于这样一个前提，即自然资源管理的变化可以使社会减轻全球对其资源需求的负面影响。基于对以形式化为导向的资源部门改革方法的批判，本文采用人类安全的分析视角来研究资源治理的转变对受自然资源开采影响的人口福祉的影响。它分析了两个案例中自然资源治理改革的成功与不足：利比里亚的林业部门和塞拉利昂的钻石部门。该研究为努力改善资源治理的未来战略提出了建议。