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1 online resource (xix, 187 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in security and international affairs
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Studies in security and international affairs.
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Tracing oil- and gas- related conflicts -- Indigenous peoples and natural resource development -- Structural causes of local conflicts -- Transient triggers of local conflicts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions' hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes that while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region itself. Oil disputes in the Amazon primarily involve local indigenous populations. These groups' social and cultural identities differ from the rest of the population, and the diverse disputes over land, displacement, water contamination, jobs, and wealth distribution reflect those differences. Vasquez spent fifteen years traveling to the oil producing regions of Latin America, conducting hundreds of interviews with the stakeholders in local conflicts. She analyzes fifty-five social and environmental clashes related to oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia). She also examines what triggers local hydrocarbons disputes and offers policy recommendations to resolve or prevent them. Vasquez argues that each case should be analyzed with attention to its specific sociopolitical and economic context. She shows how the key to preventing disputes that lead to local conflicts is to address structural flaws (such as poor governance and inadequate legal systems) and nonstructural flaws (such as stakeholders' attitudes and behavior) at the outset. Doing this will require more than strong political commitments to ensure the equitable distribution of oil and gas revenues. It will require attention to the local values and culture as well. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Social conflict -- South America.
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Social conflict. |
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South America. |
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Indians of South America -- Social conditions.
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Indians of South America -- Social conditions. |
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- South America.
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects. |
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- South America.
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Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects. |
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Petroleum industry and trade. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 2013014541 082034561 9780820345611 0820345628 9780820345628 |
| ISBN |
9780820346380 |
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0820346381 |
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