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Author Widener, Patricia, 1966-

Title Oil Injustice : Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource (389 pages).
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Series Another world is necessary: human rights, environmental justice, and popular democracy
Another world is necessary.
Contents Preface; Chapter 1. Oil Disasters and Conflicts; Chapter 2. Lago Agrio: Community-Driven Oil Justice; Chapter 3. Quito's NGOs: Realizing an Environmental Fund; Chapter 4. Mindo: Oil and Tourism May Mix; Chapter 5. Esmeraldas: Finding Dignity; Chapter 6. Transnational Responses: Evidence for a Southern-Led Global Democracy; Chapter 7. Post-OCP: Governing and Contesting Correa and China in the Amazon; Appendix: Data Collection and Researcher Participation; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.
Summary Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassrootsgroups, non-governmental organizations, activist mayors, and transnational advocates that mobilized to redefine the country's oil path and to represent the voice of many local communities and organizations that sought to offer an alternative to the nation's oil dependency and to the use of its oil wealth. These groups generated divergent and at time.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index.
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Subject Petroleum pipelines -- Ecuador -- Case studies.
Petroleum pipelines.
Ecuador.
Environmental policy -- Ecuador -- Citizen participation -- Case studies.
Environmental policy.
Political participation.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Widener, Patricia. Oil Injustice : Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., ©2011 9781442208612
ISBN 9781442208636
1442208635
9781442208612 (cloth)
1442208619 (cloth)

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