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Oil sparks in the Amazon :

(Number (ISBN

082034561X (hardcover)

(Number (ISBN

0820345628 (paperback)

(Number (ISBN

9780820345611 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9780820345628 (paperback)

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b416100

Title Proper

Oil sparks in the Amazon :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

local conflicts, indigenous populations, and natural resources /

First Statement of Responsibility

Patricia I Vasquez

Date

1402

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 187 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Studies in security and international affairs

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

"For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts focused on the causes and effects of natural resources mismanagement, commonly known as the "resource curse"--The paradoxical connection between oil wealth and economic busts (as in Venezuela) or, in a later twist, the link between the predatory behavior of armed rebel organizations and the abundant natural resources that funded their existence. Patricia Vasquez notes that oil busts and civil wars associated with the resource curse were quite different from the now-predominant local hydrocarbons disputes that are multiplying rapidly in Latin America. These more recent, localized disputes-over land, population displacement, water contamination, oil jobs that are promised but never materialize, etc.-primarily involve Indigenous groups with a different social and cultural identity from the rest of the population. Vasquez spent fifteen years making regular field visits to the oil-producing regions of Latin America and conducting hundreds of interviews with the various stakeholders in these local conflicts. Her book, based on this field research, analyzes the dynamics that characterize each of fifty-five social and environmental conflicts related to oil and gas extraction in the Andean countries (Peru, Ecuador, and Columbia). She is interested not in promulgating a new theory of conflict but in examining the triggers of local hydrocarbons disputes and providing policy recommendations to resolve or prevent them"--

Indians of South America-- Social conditions

Petroleum industry and trade-- Environmental aspects-- South America

Petroleum industry and trade-- Social aspects-- South America

Social conflict-- South America

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Book number

Vasquez, Patricia I.

Date of Transaction

20141009010238.0

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rda

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[Book]

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