Oil injustice : resisting and conceding a pipeline in Ecuador / Patricia Widener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widener, Patricia, 1966-

Series:

Another world is necessary.

Another world is necessary : human rights, environmental justice, and popular democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum pipelines--Ecuador--Case studies.

Petroleum pipelines.

Environmental policy--Ecuador--Citizen participation--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Oil Injustice examines the mobilization efforts of communities and environmental organizations in response to the construction of a cross-country oil pipeline in Ecuador. Local mobilization efforts gave rise to the establishment of two transnational campaigns, one of opposition and one of negotiation, which emphasized calls for greater conservation while diluting local demands for environmental justice and community participation in national and global decisions. These Ecuadorian cases suggest that the majority of community activists and NGOs alongside their transnational advocates were forced

Contents:

Oil disasters and conflicts

Lago Agrio : community-driven oil justice

Quito's NGOs : realizing an environmental fund

Mindo : oil and tourism may mix

Esmeraldas : finding dignity

Transnational responses : evidence for a southern-led global democracy

Post-OCP : governing and contesting Correa and China in the Amazon.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32491-1

1-283-22462-3

9786613224620

1-4422-0863-5

OCLC:

753480120