Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Economics and Natural Resource Constraints               

2.1 Theories on Natural Resource Scarcity

2.2 Theories on Economic Growth

2.3 Natural Resources and Economic Growth

Chapter 3. Finance and Natural Resource Constraints     

3.1 The UK Economy and Finance Sector              

3.2 Financial System Regulation

3.3 Insurance

3.4 Pensions

3.5 Banking        

Chapter 4. Exploring the validity of literature

4.2 Measurement of Natural Resource Scarcity 

4.3 Effects of Resource Scarcity on the Economy              

4.4 Effect of Resource Scarcity on the Finance Sector

4.5 The Part of Finance Sector Most Vulnerable to Resource Scarcity

4.6 Systemic Risks

4.7 Resource with Highest Potential of Effects

4.8 Politics Versus Natural Resource Scarcity

4.9 Financial Regulation’s Role

4.10 Legislation Versus Financial Regulation in Resource Risk

4.11 Summary of Qualitative Findings

Chapter 5. Conclusions 

5.1 Systemic Risks in the Finance Sector

5.

5.3 Recommendations

Bibliography     

Index  

About the Author

Efundem Agboraw is Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of natural resource scarcity on global economic growth.

Aled Jones is Director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He is one of the acknowledged global leaders in public–private finance related to the green economy.