Oil frictions and the subterranean geopolitics of energy regionalisms

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1422-1439

  Valdivia, Gabriela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

energy territories; Latin America Ecuador; oil; resource geography; subterranean political ecology

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCE; GEOPOLITICS; OIL FIELD; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REGIONALISM; SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT;

ECUADOR; LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 84942801629     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15595764     Document Type: Article

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