Cash, crude and conservation: a trade-off for protecting isolated tribes in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Description: Ecuador?s high dependence on oil as a source of revenue for economic growth, has fostered a clash between oil extraction, and the conservation of isolated indigenous people. This dissertation analyses how dependence on oil revenues has influenced the political economy of Ecuador and consequently changed the environmental discourse of the National Government in the last years. The study brings attention to the isolated indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon - Tagaeri and Taromenani- whose existence has been threaten by oil extraction in their territory. The analysis of the State?s discourses and actions show why the Government itself is jeopardizing the public strategies for isolated tribes? protection and goes against what is stated in policies and plans. Alternatives proposed in this dissertation, as part of a trade-off, could complement the national strategies related with the diversification of the economy and the implementation of renewable energy which go according to existing conservation policies. In order to protect isolated tribes and environment, these alternatives could promote economic growth and, at the same time, could protect indigenous people in voluntary isolation as a primary step to moving towards a less dependent oil economy.

Topic: CONSERVACI?N AMBIENTAL
ALTERNATIVAS AL DESARROLLO
DERECHOS IND?GENAS
EXTRACTIVISMO

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