| Description |
1 online resource (389 pages) |
| Series |
Another world is necessary: human rights, environmental justice, and popular democracy |
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Another world is necessary.
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| Contents |
Preface; Chapter 1. Oil Disasters and Conflicts; Chapter 2. Lago Agrio: Community-Driven Oil Justice; Chapter 3. Quito's NGOs: Realizing an Environmental Fund; Chapter 4. Mindo: Oil and Tourism May Mix; Chapter 5. Esmeraldas: Finding Dignity; Chapter 6. Transnational Responses: Evidence for a Southern-Led Global Democracy; Chapter 7. Post-OCP: Governing and Contesting Correa and China in the Amazon; Appendix: Data Collection and Researcher Participation; Notes; References; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of four communities with different oil histories in response to the construction of an oil pipeline. Using multiple sites in Ecuador as case studies, Patricia Widener examines the efforts of grassrootsgroups, non-governmental organizations, activist mayors, and transnational advocates that mobilized to redefine the country's oil path and to represent the voice of many local communities and organizations that sought to offer an alternative to the nation's oil dependency and to the use of its oil wealth. These groups generated divergent and at time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-369) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Petroleum pipelines -- Ecuador -- Case studies
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Environmental policy -- Ecuador -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Transportation.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation.
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Environmental policy -- Citizen participation
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Petroleum pipelines
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Ecuador
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011013489 |
| ISBN |
9781442208636 |
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1442208635 |
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1442208627 |
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9781442208629 |
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9786613224620 |
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6613224626 |
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1283224623 |
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9781283224628 |
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