Oil Sparks in the Amazon: Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
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 oilproducing 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.
Patricia I. Vásquez
PATRICIA I. VASQUEZ is an independent energy expert and former Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and an advisor on energy and sustainable development issues. Previously, she was the head of the Latin America Department at Energy Intelligence.
Related to Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Titles in the series (23)
Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConflict Dynamics: Civil Wars, Armed Actors, and Their Tactics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control: Interests, Conflicts, and Justice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNorm Diffusion and HIV/AIDS Governance in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArab Spring: Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Explorations into International Relations: Democracy, Foreign Investment, Terrorism, and Conflict Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Decision to Attack: Military and Intelligence Cyber Decision-Making Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSlaying the Nuclear Dragon: Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnfinished Business: Why International Negotiations Fail Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContaining Russia's Nuclear Firebirds: Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWars of Disruption and Resilience: Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsState Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMigration Crises and the Structure of International Cooperation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBehavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNGOs and Human Rights: Comparing Faith-Based and Secular Approaches Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRepurposed Rebels: Postwar Rebel Networks in Liberia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Child and the World: Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPhotographic Warfare: ISIS, Egypt, and the Online Battle for Sinai Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPower to the Population: The Political Consequences and Causes of Demographic Changes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlobalizing Collateral Language: From 9/11 to Endless War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContextualizing Security: A Reader Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
3D Printing in Oil and Gas Second Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAsia Specific Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInternet of Things in Oil and Gas Second Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Anti-Social Contract: Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSinging to the Dead: A Missioner's Life among Refugees from Burma Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMissionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTies That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unfettered Hope: A Call to Faithful Living in an Affluent Society Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Oil, Banks, and Politics: The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917–1924 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClimate in Crisis: Who's Causing It, Who's Fighting It, and How We Can Reverse It Before It's Too Late Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOver a Barrel: Breaking the Middle East Oil Cartel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBehind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsREBIRTH ... The New Dark Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRevolution on the Range: The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAntitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRed Light to Starboard: Recalling the Exxon Valdez Disaster Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNixon and the Environment Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdvanced Survival: A Guide to the Self-Reliance Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsResilience: Why Things Bounce Back Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Green Are the Gorons?: Liberal Propaganda out of Control Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Year 501: The Conquest Continues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mexican Voices of the Border Region: Mexicans and Mexican Americans Speak about Living along the Wall Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Impending Crisis: Conditions Resulting from the Concentration of Wealth in the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPetrotyranny Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Social Science For You
Questions for Couples: 469 Thought-Provoking Conversation Starters for Connecting, Building Trust, and Rekindling Intimacy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women Don't Owe You Pretty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Oil Sparks in the Amazon
0 ratings0 reviews