| By A. Bebbington, N. Cuba and J. Rogan | Published in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Winter 2014 XIII(2):20-23 | | Full text |
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Evaluating the effects of common-pool resource institutions and market forces on species richness and forest cover in Ecuadorian indigenous Kichwa communities
| By J. Oldekop, A. Bebbington, K. Hennermann, J. McMorrow, D.A. Springate, B. Torres, N.Truelove, N. Tysklind, S. Villamarín and R. Preziosi | Published by Conversation Letters | Abstract: We compare conservation outcomes between a protected area (PA) and four indigenous common-property regimes (CPRs) under differing degrees of market integration in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We first assess […]
Negotiable Differences? Conflicts Over Mining and Development in South East Ecuador
| By X. Warnaars and A Bebbington | Published in Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation. Edited by G. Hilson and E. Gilberthorpe. London: Ashgate. |
Anatomies of Conflict: Social Mobilization and New Political Ecologies of the Andes
| By A. Bebbington, D. Humphreys Bebbington, J. Bury, L. Hinojosa and M.L. Burneo | Published in Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil and Gas in Latin America. Edited by A. Bebbington and J. Bury. Austin: University of Texas Press. | Excerpt: In this chapter, we discuss findings from a large-scale comparative research program studying […]
Environmental impacts and scarcity perception influence local institutions in indigenous Amazonian Kichwa communities
| By J. Oldekop, A. Bebbington, N. Truelove, G. Holmes, S. Villamarín, R. Preziosi | Published in Human Ecology 40: 101 | Abstract: Much of the literature on common-pool resources has focused on elucidating the social mechanisms and local institutions that lead to the regulation of common-pool resources. There is much less information about how […]
Testing the Accuracy of Non-Experts in Biodiversity Monitoring Exercises using Fern Species Richness in the Ecuadorian Amazon
| By J. Oldekop, A. Bebbington, F. Berdel, N. Truelove, T. Wiersberg, R. Preziosi | Published in Biodiversity and Conservation 20(12): 2615-2626 | Abstract: Assessing environmental change is often constrained by time, money and expertise. Community-based monitoring schemes attempt to address these limitations by providing local communities with the skills to measure changes in natural […]
An Andean Avatar: Post-neoliberal and neoliberal strategies for securing the unobtainable
| By A Bebbington and D. Humphreys Bebbington | Published in New Political Economy 15(4): 131-145 | | Full text | Abstract: Recent years have seen increasingly aggressive expansion of extractive industry in the Andean-Amazonian region. Reminiscent of the film Avatar, this expansion drives conflicts over land, territory and political control of space. This expansion is […]
Federating and defending: water, territory and extraction in the Andes
| A. Bebbington, D.H. Bebbington, J. Bury | Published in Out Of The Mainstream: The Politics Of Water Rights And Identity In The Andes, pp. 307-327. Edited by R.Boelens, D.Getches and A. Guevara Gil. London: Earthscan. | | Full text (PDF) | Introduction: Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador have each seen a significant increase in extractive industry activity over […]
Mining and social movements: struggles over livelihood and rural territorial development in the Andes
| By A. Bebbington, D. Humphreys Bebbington, J. Bury, J.Lingan, J.P.Muñoz and M. Scurrah | Published in World Development, 36(12): 2888-2905 | | Full text (PDF) | Abstract: Social movements have been viewed as vehicles through which the concerns of poor and marginalized groups are given greater visibility within civil society, lauded for being the means […]
Los espacios públicos de concertación local y sus límites en un municipio indígena: Guamote, Ecuador
| Por Anthony Bebbington | Publicado en Debate Agrario 40/41:381-404 | El cantón de Guamote, ubicado en la Sierra Central del Ecuador y con una población en 1999 de 33,456, 90% indígena (INEC, citado en Ramirez, 2001), fue – hasta los años 70 y aún los 80 – uno de los núcleos de mayor abuso de […]