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

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, 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 wri...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Vasquez, Patricia I., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse 2013
Edition:1st ed
Series:Studies in security and international affairs.
Subjects:
Social conflict > South America.
Indians of South America > Social conditions.
Petroleum industry and trade > Environmental aspects > South America.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > South America.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419813406719
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Tracing oil- and gas- related conflicts
  • Indigenous peoples and natural resource development
  • Structural causes of local conflicts
  • Transient triggers of local conflicts
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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