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First published in 2019 by Polity Press

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Names: Moore, Margaret (Professor in Political Theory), author.
Title: Who should own natural resources? / Margaret Moore.
Description: Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. | Series: Political theory today | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057111 (print) | LCCN 2019004998 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509529193 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509529162 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509529179 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Natural resources--Management. | Conservation of natural resources.
Classification: LCC HC85 (ebook) | LCC HC85 .M65 2019 (print) | DDC 333.01--dc23
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Acknowledgements

I wrote this book while I was an Olof Palme Professor at Stockholm University in autumn, 2018. I am very appreciative of this opportunity and have a number of organizations and people to thank. I am grateful to the Swedish Research Council for funding this professorship; Stockholm University for nominating and hosting me; and Ludvig Beckman, Markus Furendaal and Michele Micheletti for help with the logistics and putting together the nomination. I am also grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a research grant that funded part of this research. For comments on some parts of the arguments, given at the Australian National University; Universidad Panamericano; the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm; University of Pavia; Uppsala University; and University of Bayreuth, I am grateful to Arash Abizadeh, Gustaf Arrhenius, Ludvig Beckman, Ian Carter, Eva Erman, Luis Xavier López Farjeat, Bob Goodin, Gina Gustavsson, Andrew Lister, Sofia Näsström, Alice Pinheiro-Walla, Hans Roth, Nic Southwood and Christine Straehle, as well as audiences at these venues. I am especially grateful to Patti Lenard, David Miller and the two anonymous readers for Polity Press for extremely helpful and insightful comments on the complete first draft, and to George Owers and Julia Davies of Polity Press, who were both encouraging and critical at different times, which helped me to transform this into a better short book than it would otherwise have been.