Oil Sparks in the Amazon Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources

For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, with the attendant economic booms and busts, or clashes between rebels and ruling governments over hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vásquez writes that while oi...

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Main Author: Vasquez, Patricia I
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Athens University of Georgia Press 2014
The University of Georgia Press
Edition:1
Series:Studies in Security and International Affairs
Subjects:
Business
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Colombia
Ecuador
Energy
Environmental aspects
environmental pollution
Erdölindustrie
Gaswirtschaft
Indianer
Indians of South America
Indians of South America > Social conditions
Indigene Völker
indigenous peoples
Industries
International Relations
Lateinamerika
Latin America
Natural gas
Natural resource
Peru
petroleum industry
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects > South America
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > South America
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Social aspects
Social conditions
Social conflict
Social conflict > South America
South America
Sozialer Konflikt
ISBN:9780820345611, 082034561X, 9780820345628, 0820345628, 0820353043, 9780820353043, 9780820346380, 0820346381
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Summary:For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, with the attendant economic booms and busts, or clashes between rebels and ruling governments over hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vásquez writes that while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out in ways 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. Vásquez’s conflict analyses, and her recommendations to resolve or prevent them, are based on fifteen years of travel to the oil-producing regions of Latin America, and hundreds of interviews with the stakeholders in local conflicts.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-167) and index
Relevant Wikipedia pages: Colombia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia; Ecuador - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador; Indigenous peoples - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples; Latin America - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America; Natural gas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas; Natural resource - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resource; Peru - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru
ISBN:9780820345611
082034561X
9780820345628
0820345628
0820353043
9780820353043
9780820346380
0820346381
DOI:10.2307/j.ctt46n84z