Who speaks for nature? : indigenous movements, public opinion, and the petro-state in Ecuador /
Using the first national survey in Ecuador featuring an oversample of Amazon indigenous communities, this path-breaking book argues that how vulnerable or exposed people have been to environmental degradation determines how strongly they feel about saving the environment. Rather than emphasizing eth...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in comparative energy and environmental politics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Using the first national survey in Ecuador featuring an oversample of Amazon indigenous communities, this path-breaking book argues that how vulnerable or exposed people have been to environmental degradation determines how strongly they feel about saving the environment. Rather than emphasizing ethnic identity or stakeholders' ideological pre-dispositions towards environmentalism, the authors argue that on the front lines of environmental conservation, peoples' views are driven by personal experiences of vulnerability. Using the survey and hundreds of interviews across Ecuador over three year. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190908980 019090898X 9780190908973 0190908963 9780190908966 0190908971 0190908955 9780190908959 |