Oil frontiers and indigenous resistance in the Peruvian Amazon

Orta-Martínez, Martí; Finer, Matt

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.022

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“…Orta-Martínez and Finer (2010) indicate that since the 1920s, oil exploration and extraction in this region have threatened both biodiversity and indigenous peoples, particularly those living in voluntary isolation. They argue Joan that the phenomenon of peak oil, combined with rising demand and consumption, is pushing oil extraction into the most remote corners of the world.…”

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Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico

Merino¹

2016

Environmental Governance in Latin America

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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Contents List of Figures and Tables viiPreface viii List of Contributors xi PrefaceThis book is the result of the collaborative research project Environmental Governance in Latin America (ENGOV) funded by the European Union (EU). For four years, a team of experts from ten Latin American and European academic institutions investigated how environmental governance is currently being shaped in Latin America. In this joint effort, we were driven by our concerns about widespread ecological degradation, poverty and injustice, as well as by our curiosity about the ways in which the emergence of new political regimes and elites, and innovative steps by communities and social organizations, affects governance practices and nature-society relations. To understand the possibilities and obstacles for sustainable and equitable natural resource use, a range of case-studies were carried out in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Mexico. Although some of the research topics and cases are not included in this volume, their findings have contributed to the discussions and theoretical reflections in the overall analysis. The ENGOV project has been simultaneously challenging and inspiring. The theme of environmental governance is a huge academic enterprise because it addresses complex social relations, practices and views influencing how societies perceive nature and use natural resources. Combining methods and theories from different fields of the social sciences is a prerequisite which in practice is fairly demanding. Furthermore, by encompassing political, economic, cultural and environmental changes, formal as well as informal arrangements, and cross-scale connections, the study of environmental governance can easily become a 'mission impossible'. Arguably this is even more the case for contemporary Latin America, with its variety of local and national conditions facing rapid-paced changes. Finally, collaborating in an international research consortium of ten institutional partners and more than 25 researchers from different disciplines, schools of thought and generations has also proved to be both daring and rewarding. The fact that we spoke in different academic languages and idiom accents was not only a hurdle to tackle during our group discussions, but also forced us to learn from each other's approaches and convictions, and the foundations on which these are based. As a typical governance process, next viii Preface ix to misunderstandings, dissonances and unbridgeable differences, the exchange of different insights and perspectives proved to bring ab...

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Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico

Merino¹

2016

Environmental Governance in Latin America

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“…In the Amazon basin, which hosts the greatest biodiversity on Earth, the benefits are particularly clear in the short term; the adoption of solar energy technologies for electrification in these areas may contribute to protect the biodiversity, reduce deforestation, moderate land degradation, and avoid noise (that may disturb uncontacted indigenous communities inhabiting some areas in the Amazon basin; [98,99]). Despite these benefits, rural electrification policies in Ecuador continue to favor grid expansion.…”

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Are the Rural Electrification Efforts in the Ecuadorian Amazon Sustainable?

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Abstract:In this paper, we assess the sustainability of rural electrification programs in Ecuador, paying special attention to programs targeting small indigenous communities in the Amazon basin. Our assessment considers four dimensions of sustainability (institutional, economic, environmental, and socio-cultural) and is based on an exhaustive qualitative document analysis, complemented by semi-structured expert interviews. We found that disruptive changes have affected the electrification policies in Ecuador during decades of avoiding the development of strengthened institutions. Despite this major drawback, we found that there is a consensus on granting access to energy for all. This partially explains the national efforts, persistent through different administrations to fund rural electrification. However, in the case of off-grid photovoltaic solutions, these efforts have consistently neglected allocating funds for operation and maintenance, which has seriously compromised the sustainability. Moreover, although Ecuadorian officials declared to favor stand-alone photovoltaic systems in the case of indigenous communities in the Amazon, we found that environmental or socio-cultural aspects have a minor role in the selection of these systems. Progress regarding environmental awareness, social acceptance, and cultural justice, is still needed for ensuring the sustainability of rural electrification efforts in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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“…Many studies in the two sets of literature referred to above account for national/local geographies and structural factors mediating the emergence, dynamics and characteristics of the resistance and the conflicts (Conde and Kallis, 2012;Muradian et al, 2012;Orta-Martínez and Finer, 2010 This third type of interaction was analysed in detail in early landmark political ecology works about forest peoples' struggles for access to resources (Hecht and Cockburn, 1989;Peluso, 1992a and1992b). They are addressed in a few of the more recent works on commodity frontiers and social mobilisation referred to above (Bebbington et al, 2008a;Conde and Kallis, 2012;Stonich and Vandergeest, 2001;Veuthey and Gerber, 2011).…”

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“…Several studies emphasise the interactions between global structural forces shaping the expansion of commodity frontier and local or 'glocal' strategies of resistance as expression of agency (or the lack of them) (Conde and Kallis, 2012;Gerber, 2011;Gerber et al, 2009;Martinez-Alier, 2009;Martinez-Alier et al, 2010;Muradian et al, 2012;Orta-Martínez and Finer, 2010). They do so by linking socioenvironmental conflicts with the global growth of material flows and commodity markets.…”

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Access, power and justice in commodity frontiers : the political ecology of access to land and palm oil expansion in Colombia

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Oil frontiers and indigenous resistance in the Peruvian Amazon

Cited by 110 publications

References 23 publications

Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico

Rights, Pressures and Conservation in Forest Regions of Mexico

Are the Rural Electrification Efforts in the Ecuadorian Amazon Sustainable?

Access, power and justice in commodity frontiers : the political ecology of access to land and palm oil expansion in Colombia

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