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Author Vasquez, Patricia I., author.

Title Oil Sparks in the Amazon : Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources / Patricia I. Vásquez.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 187 pages)
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Series Studies in security and international affairs
Studies in security and international affairs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Summary 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. The author 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 - primarily involve Indigenous groups with a different social and cultural identity from the rest of the population. The author 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. This book, based on her 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). With this book, the author 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. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents Tracing oil- and gas-related conflicts -- Indigenous peoples and natural resource development -- Structural causes of local conflicts -- Transient triggers of local conflicts.
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Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- South America.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- South America.
Indians of South America -- Social conditions.
Social conflict -- South America.
Pétrole -- Industrie et commerce -- Aspect social -- Amérique du Sud.
Peuples autochtones -- Amérique du Sud -- Conditions sociales.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
Indians of South America -- Social conditions
Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects
Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects
Social conflict
South America https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkXBJV9Hk6cKTTG6C3fbd
Other Form: Print version: Oil sparks in the Amazon. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014 9780820345611 (DLC) 2013014541 (OCoLC)841897228
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