Social Stability In Resource Endowment Effect

This thesis will analyze the X-mine case where the coal resources are abundant. By using depth interviews, case-by-case analysis method and process tracing method, I mean to prove the areas with affluent nature resources do exist the phenomenon of the’resource curse’. Because the conflicting interests with the various uncertainties impact of the neighboring residents, their social order are more susceptible. Such impacts manifest surrounding residents petition mob way interfere with the resource-rich areas of social security, the social situations of resource-rich areas is much more complexity. The concept of the ’resource curse’ is often applied to the study of nature resources on the economic level of the resource-rich region, this article intend to use the ’resource curse’ theory to explain the resource-rich areas have more factors that makes social instability. Abundant natural resources ’curse’ normal social order, thus more petition and group unexpected incidents occur in the natural resource-rich areas. The living standard of the surrounding residents has been improved because of the abundant natural resources, but the exploitation of resources undoubtedly destroy the local ecological environment. The benefits brought by natural resources and the rigid maintenance policy made by the local government let the surrounding residents gradually have a profit ’eat large’ psychological. These factors have increased the risk of social instability of the natural resource-rich region, so the main idea of this thesis is to describe the social stability conditions of the resource-rich areas and the difficulties to maintain stability status.