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Voices unheard - silenced Communities, vanishing Forests: Exploring the Ecological and Social Consequences of the FPIC Implementation Gap
Heinrichs, Fenja (2023) Voices unheard - silenced Communities, vanishing Forests: Exploring the Ecological and Social Consequences of the FPIC Implementation Gap.
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| Abstract: | The phenomenon of the implementation gap is connected to the known model of the policy-cycle and refers to the incorrect or incomplete execution of agreed upon policies. Following up on the case of illegal oil exploitation in the Amazon due to fragmentary realization of international FPIC standards, this two-pieced case-study explored the ecological and social consequences of the implementation gap regarding FPIC standards by the Ecuadorian government for the Indigenous Community (IC) of Sarayaku and its territory, imposed by the Argentinean company CGC after 2001. The aim was to pro- vide new understandings for the inter- and intragenerational suffering of Indigenous People under cul- tural hegemony and other structures of social oppression, as well as to highlight the importance of ex- ploring opportunities for renewable energy sources to turn away from destructive extraction practices in the Amazon. The findings indicated that not only the Community ́s land and the adjacent river but also their social structures regarding traditional livelihood activities and quality of life were heavily dis- turbed, to the extent that a ́state of emergency ́ was called in and communal customs were sustainably altered. Keywords: FPIC; implementation gap; crude oil extraction; Sarayaku; social consequences; ecological consequences; Indigenous Communities |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 43 environmental science |
| Programme: | Management Society and Technology BSc (56654) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/96015 |
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