Local context Ecuador: Fauna, Flora, History and Politics
Indigenous population Amazon Ecuador
The initiative and it‘s different dimensions
Main idea and mechanism behind the Yasuní ITT proposal
Envionmental justice perspective on Yasuní ITT
Political economy and causes of failure
Climate change mitigation with Yasuní
Civil society, Plan B and its Risks
Proposals and responses civil society
After Correa’s announcement to extract
Yasuní Global - A global Approach of Yasuní
Local Context Ecuador: Fauna, Flora, History and Politics
Biosphere Yasuní
Finer, M.; Moncel, R. and Jenkins, C.N. (2010), “Leaving the Oil Under the Amazon: Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Biotropica, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 63–66. Abstract available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00587.x/abstract
González-Jaramillo,V. (2016) Assessment of deforestation during the last decades in Ecuador using NOAA-AVHRR satellite data, ERDKUNDE, Vol. 70 No. 3, p. 217-235.
Kneas, D. (2016), Subsoil abundance and surface absence: a junior mining company and its performance of prognosis in northwestern Ecuador. J R Anthropol Inst, 22: 67–86.
Larrea, C. (2009), "La Iniciativa Yasuní-ITT: un camino alternativo hacia la sustentabilidad", boletín "Ventana a la Cooperación", Vol. 11, No.6.
Larrea, C. (2013), "Biodiversity, Oil and Development in Ecuador", University of Sussex.
Marx, E. (2010), “The Fight for Yasuní”, Science, Vol. 330, No. 6008, pp. 1170–1171.
Pleistocene
Hoorn, C. (2006), “The Birth of the Mighty Amazon”, Scientific American, Vol. 294, No. 5, pp. 52–59, Abstract available at: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/7074147_The_Birth_of_the_Mighty_Amazon
Salo, J. (1987), “Pleistocene forest refuges in the Amazon. evaluation of the biostratigraphical lithostratigraphical and geomorphological data”, Annales Zoologici Fennici, Vol. 24, No. 3 pp. 203–211. Abstract available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23734496?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Indigenous Populations Amazonian Ecuador
Larrea, C. (s.d.), "Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT proposal to keep oil reserves underground".
Rival, L. (2002), "Trekking through history: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador", The historical ecology series, Columbia University Press, New York, Review available at: http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=tipiti
Walsh, B. (2012), “Rain Forest for Ransom”, Time, Vol. 179, No. 5, p. 36. Abstract available at: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/70949923/rain-forest-ransom
Economic History Ecuador
Larrea, C. (2013), "Biodiversity, Oil and Development in Ecuador", University of Sussex.
Ecuador’s Energy Policy
Energy Information Administration (2015) "Ecuador - International energy data and analysis".
Larrea, C. (2013), "El Parque National Yasuní".
Ministerio de Energía y Minas (2007), "PLANIFICACIÓN ECONÓMICA INTEGRAL DE CRUDOS PESADOS", Quito.
Sovacool, B.J., Scarpaci, J. (2016) Energy justice and the contested petroleum politics of stranded assets: Policy insights from the Yasuní-ITT Initiative in Ecuador, Energy Policy, Volume 95, Pages 158-171, ISSN 0301-4215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.04.045.
Oil in Ecuador
Acosta, A. (2007), "Planificaión Económica Integral de Crudos Pesados", Campo ITT.
Burch, S. (2013), “Ecuadors Campaign: 'The Dirty Hand of Chevron'”.
Energy Information Administration (2015) "Ecuador - International energy data and analysis".
Juhasz, A. (2014), “Opinion: Why oil drilling in Ecuador is 'ticking time bomb' for planet”.
Larrea, C. (s.d.), "Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT proposal to keep oil reserves underground".
Larrea, C. (2013), "Keeping fossil fuels underground: Innovative options for mitigation", Brighton.
Martinez-Alier, J. and Temper, L. (2007), “Oil and Climate Change: Voices from the South”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 50, pp. 16–19. Preview available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277042?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Martinez-Alier, J. and Temper, L. (2009), “Oil, Climate Change and Resistance from the South”, in Bond, P., Dada, R. and Erion, G. (Eds.), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: Negative returns on South African investments, 2nd ed., University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scotsville, South Africa, pp. 165–171.
Ministerio de Energía y Minas (2007), "PLANIFICACIÓN ECONÓMICA INTEGRAL DE CRUDOS PESADOS", Quito.
Peláez-Samaniego, M.R. et al (2007), “Energy sector in Ecuador: Current status”, Energy Policy, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 4177–4189. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421507000602
Official Documents
Acosta, A. (2007), "Planificaión Económica Integral de Crudos Pesados", Campo ITT.
Ecuadorian Government (2010), "Ecuador Yasuní ITT: Fondo de Fideicomiso", Términos de Referencia.
Larrea, C. (2010), "Yasuní ITT: An Initiative to Change History".
Ministerio de Energía y Minas (2007), PLANIFICACIÓN ECONÓMICA INTEGRAL DE CRUDOS PESADOS, Quito.
Democracy Ecuador
CEDHU (2012), “Graves Violaciones a Derechos Humanos en 2012”.
Colburn, F.D. and Trejos, A. (2010), “Democracy Undermined: Constitutional Subterfuge in Latin America”, Dissent, Vol. 57 No. 3, pp. 11–15. Excerpt available at: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/democracy-undermined-constitutional-subterfuge-in-latin-america
De la Torre, C. (2013), “Technocratic Populism in Ecuador”, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 33–46. Abstract available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_democracy/v024/24.3.de-la-torre.pdf
Engler, M. (2010), “Democracy in Latin America”, Dissent, Vol. 57 No. 4, pp. 76–78. Abstract available at: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/democracy-in-latin-america-2
Mank, B.C. and Smith, S. (2013), “The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment”, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 35 No. 4, pp. 1021–1042. Excerpt available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v035/35.4.mank.pdf
Martinez-Alier, J., Bassey, N. and Bond, P. (2013), “Yasuní ITT is dead. Blame President Correa”.
Martinez-Alier, J. (2013), “President Rafael Correa against the environmentalists”.
Peeler, J.A. (2010), “The Academic Uses of Lo Indígena”, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 45 No. 1, pp. 233–243. Abstract available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/latin_american_research_review/v045/45.1.peeler.pdf
Weyland, K. (2013), “The Threat from the Populist Left”, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 18–32. Abstract available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_democracy/v024/24.3.weyland.html
The initiative and its different dimensions
History of the Initiative
Espinosa. C. (2013), “The riddle of leaving the oil in the soil—Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT project from a discourse perspective”, Forest Policies and Economics, Vol. 36, pp. 27–36. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934112001633
Larrea, C. (2013), "Biodiversity, Oil and Development in Ecuador", University of Sussex.
Martin, P.L. (2011), “Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 22–42. Abstract available at: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/GLEP_a_00082?journalCode=glep#.U4sc_IR2BLQ
Concept and Mechanisms of the Yasuní ITT Proposal
Finer, M., Moncel, R. and Jenkins, C.N. (2010), “Leaving the Oil Under the Amazon: Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Biotropica, Vol. 42 No. 1, pp. 63–66. Abstract available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00587.x/abstract
Larrea, C. (s.d.), "Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT proposal to keep oil reserves underground".
Larrea, C. (2010), "Yasuní ITT: An Initiative to Change History".
Larrea, C. and Warnars, L. (2009), “Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative: Avoiding emissions by keeping petroleum underground”, Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 13, pp. 219–223. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082609000581
Martinez-Alier, J. (2007), “Keep Oil in the Ground: Yasuní in Ecuador”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 42, pp. 4227–4228.
Financial Mechanism of Yasuní
Arsel, M. and Angel, N.A. (2012), “"Stating" Nature's Role in Ecuadorian Development: Civil Society and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 203–227. Abstract available at: http://jds.sagepub.com/content/28/2/203.abstract
Ecuadorian Government (2010), "Ecuador Yasuní ITT: Fondo de Fideicomiso, Términos de Referencia".
Larrea, C. (s.d.), "Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT proposal to keep oil reserves underground".
Larrea, C. (2010), "Anánalisis Comparativo de Ingresos Futuros del Estado para el Bloque ITT".
Macintosh, A. and Constable, A. (2017) Supply-side climate policies and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative
Martin, P.L. (2011), “Pay to Preserve: The Global Politics of Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Proposal", International development policy: Energy and development, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 117–134. Abstract available at http://poldev.revues.org/770. Full version in French available at: http://poldev.revues.org/703
Environmental Justice Perspective on Yasuní ITT
Fierro, L.G. (2016) Oil or ‘life’: the dilemma inherent in the yasuní-ITT initiative
Martinez-Alier, J. and Temper, L. (2007), “Oil and Climate Change: Voices from the South”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 50, pp. 16–19. Preview available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277042?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Political Economy and Causes of Failure
Arsel, M. and Angel, N.A. (2012), “"Stating" Nature's Role in Ecuadorian Development: Civil Society and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 203–227. Abstract available at: http://jds.sagepub.com/content/28/2/203.abstract
Blasberg, M. (2011), “Ecuador: Niebel und die Indianer”, Zeit Online, 16 June.
Espinosa, C. (2013), “The riddle of leaving the oil in the soil. Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT project from a discourse perspective”, Forest Policies and Economics, Vol. 36, pp. 27–36.Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934112001633
Falconí Benítez, F. (2010), “El ITT: prueba de vida The ITT: Life at Stake”, Iconos Reviusta de Cienciias Sociales, Vol. 38, pp. 17–20.http://www.sussex.ac.uk/wcm/dashboard/page/edit/435//itt/doc
Le Quang, M (2016) The Yasuní-ITT Initiative, Toward New Imaginaries. Latin American Perspectives vol. 43 no. 1 187-199.
Sovacool, B. J., Scarpaci, J. (2016). Energy justice and the contested petroleum politics of stranded assets: Policy insights from the Yasuní-ITT Initiative in Ecuador, Energy Policy Volume 95, August 2016, Pages 158–171
Climate Change Mitigation with Yasuní
Larrea, C. (2013), "Biodiversity, Oil and Development in Ecuador", University of Sussex.
Larrea, C. (2013), "Keeping fossil fuels underground: Innovative options for mitigation", Brighton.
Larrea, C. and Warnars, L. (2009), “Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative: Avoiding emissions by keeping petroleum underground”, Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 13, pp. 219–223. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082609000581
Larrea, C. (2009), "La Iniciativa Yasuní-ITT: un camino alternativo hacia la sustentabilidad", boletín "Ventana a la Cooperación", Vol. 11, No.6.
Loaiza, T., Nehren, U., Gerold, G. (2016) REDD + implementation in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Why land configuration and common-pool resources management matter, Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 70, September 2016, Pages 67-79, ISSN 1389-9341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2016.05.016.
Presentations
Larrea, C. (2013), "Biodiversity, Oil and Development in Ecuador", University of Sussex.
Larrea, C. (2013), "Keeping fossil fuels underground: Innovative options for mitigation", Brighton.
Rockström, J. (2010), "Let the environment guide our development", TED Talk.
Alternatives to Extractivism
Arsel, M. and Angel, N.A. (2012), “"Stating" Nature's Role in Ecuadorian Development: Civil Society and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 203–227. Abstract available at: http://jds.sagepub.com/content/28/2/203.abstract
Bullard, N (2014) Fossil fuel divestment: a $5 trillion challenge. Bloomberg New Energy Finance, White Paper 25 August.
McKibben, B (2013) The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment, Rolling Stone, February 22.
McKibben, B (2013) Global warming's terrifying new math Rolling Stone, August 2nd.
Civil Society, Plan B and Risks
Proposals and Civil Society Responses
Acción Ecologica (2011), "El Yasuní depende de tí" Video de la campaña.
Marx, E. (2010), “The Fight for Yasuní”, Science, Vol. 330, pp. 1170–1171.
Yasunídos
After Correa’s Announcement to Extract
Becker, M. (2014), “Resource Extraction and Yasuní National Park. Ecuador's Bitter Choice”.
Juhasz, A. (2014), “Opinion: Why oil drilling in Ecuador is 'ticking time bomb' for planet”.
Käufer, T. (2012), "Yasuní in Ecuador: Das Regenwald-Projekt ist gescheitert", Spiegel Online.
Larrea, C. (2013), "El Parque National Yasuní".
Martinez-Alier, J., Bassey, N. and Bond, P. (2013), “Yasuní ITT is dead. Blame President Correa”.
Risks of Extraction
Juhasz, A. (2014), “Opinion: Why oil drilling in Ecuador is 'ticking time bomb' for planet”.
Larrea, C. (2013), "El Parque National Yasuní".
Yasuní Global - A Global Approach of Yasuní
Larrea, C. (2013), “Ecuadors Yasuní-ITT Initiative A Critical Assessment”.
Yasuní - A Collection
Acción Ecológica (2008), “El ITT versus Yasuní”, Alerta Verde - Boletín de Acción Ecológica, No. 155.
Acción Ecologica (2011), "El Yasuní depende de tí" Video de la campaña.
Acosta, A. (2007), "Planificaión Económica Integral de Crudos Pesados", Campo ITT.
Arsel, M. and Angel, N.A. (2012), “"Stating" Nature's Role in Ecuadorian Development: Civil Society and the Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 203–227. Abstract available at: http://jds.sagepub.com/content/28/2/203.abstract
Becker, M. (2014), “Resource Extraction and Yasuní National Park. Ecuador's Bitter Choice”.
Blasberg, M. (2011), “Ecuador: Niebel und die Indianer”, Zeit Online, 16 June.
Bond, P. (2009), “Conclusion. Leave the Oil in the Soil”, in Bond, P., Dada, R. and Erion, G. (Eds.), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: Negative returns on South African investments, 2nd ed., University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scotsville, South Africa, pp. 179–201.
Burch, S. (2013), “Ecuadors Campaign: 'The Dirty Hand of Chevron'”.
De la Torre, C. (2013), “Technocratic Populism in Ecuador”, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 33–46. Abstract available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_democracy/v024/24.3.de-la-torre.pdf
Ecuadorian Government (2010), "Ecuador Yasuní ITT: Fondo de Fideicomiso", Términos de Referencia.
Energy Information Administration (2015) "Ecuador - International energy data and analysis".
Espinosa, C. (2013), “The riddle of leaving the oil in the soil. Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT project from a discourse perspective”, Forest Policies and Economics, Vol. 36, pp. 27–36. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934112001633
Finer, M.; Moncel, R. and Jenkins, C.N. (2010), “Leaving the Oil Under the Amazon: Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative”, Biotropica, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 63–66. Abstract available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00587.x/abstract
Hoorn, C. (2006), “The Birth of the Mighty Amazon”, Scientific American, Vol. 294, No. 5, pp. 52–59, Abstract available at: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/7074147_The_Birth_of_the_Mighty_Amazon
Juhasz, A. (2014), “Opinion: Why oil drilling in Ecuador is 'ticking time bomb' for planet”.
Larrea, C. (2009), "La Iniciativa Yasuní-ITT: un camino alternativo hacia la sustentabilidad", boletín "Ventana a la Cooperación", Vol. 11, No.6.
Larrea, C. (2010), "Anánalisis Comparativo de Ingresos Futuros del Estado para el Bloque ITT".
Larrea, C. (2010), “Yasuní ITT: An Initiative to Change History”.
Larrea, C. (2013), "Biodiversity, Oil and Development in Ecuador", University of Sussex.
Larrea, C. (2013), "El Parque National Yasuní".
Larrea, C. (2013), "Keeping fossil fuels underground: Innovative options for mitigation", Brighton.
Larrea, C. (2013), “Ecuadors Yasuní-ITT Initiative A Critical Assessment”.
Larrea, C. (s.d.), "Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT proposal to keep oil reserves underground".
Larrea, C. and Warnars, L. (2009), “Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative: Avoiding emissions by keeping petroleum underground”, Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol. 13, pp. 219–223. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082609000581
Martin, P.L. (2011), “Pay to Preserve: The Global Politics of Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Proposal", International development policy: Energy and development, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 117–134. Abstract available at: http://poldev.revues.org/770. Full version in French available at: http://poldev.revues.org/703
Martin, P.L. (2011), “Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador”, Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 22–42. Abstract available at: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/GLEP_a_00082?journalCode=glep#.U4sc_IR2BLQ
Martinez-Alier, J. (2007), “Keep Oil in the Ground: Yasuní in Ecuador”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 42, pp. 4227–4228.
Martinez-Alier, J. (2010), “En Ecuador: la Iniciativa Yasuní ITT se encamina al triunfo”, sinpermiso.
Martinez-Alier, J. (2013), “President Rafael Correa against the environmentalists”.
Martinez-Alier, J. and Temper, L. (2007), “Oil and Climate Change: Voices from the South”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42 No. 50, pp. 16–19. Preview available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277042?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Martinez-Alier, J. and Temper, L. (2009), “Oil, Climate Change and Resistance from the South”, in Bond, P., Dada, R. and Erion, G. (eds.), Climate change, carbon trading and civil society: Negative returns on South African investments, 2nd ed., University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Scotsville, South Africa, pp. 165–171.
Martinez-Alier, J., Bassey, N. and Bond, P. (2013), “Yasuní ITT is dead. Blame President Correa”.
Marx, E. (2010), “The Fight for Yasuní”, Science, Vol. 330, No. 6008, pp. 1170–1171.
Ministerio de Energía y Minas (2007), "PLANIFICACIÓN ECONÓMICA INTEGRAL DE CRUDOS PESADOS", Quito.
Peláez-Samaniego, M.R. et al (2007), “Energy sector in Ecuador: Current status”, Energy Policy, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 4177–4189. Abstract available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421507000602
Pötter, B. (2012), “Klimakonferenz in Doha: Bodenschätze fürs Klima entwerten“, taz.de, 7. December.
Rival, L. (2002), "Trekking through history: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador", The historical ecology series, Columbia University Press, New York, Review available at: http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=tipiti
Rockström, J. (2010), "Let the environment guide our development", TED Talk.
Salo, J. (1987), “Pleistocene forest refuges in the Amazon. evaluation of the biostratigraphical lithostratigraphical and geomorphological data”, Annales Zoologici Fennici, Vol. 24, No. 3 pp. 203–211. Abstract available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23734496?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Walsh, B. (2012), “Rain Forest for Ransom”, Time, Vol. 179, No. 5, p. 36. Abstract available at: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/70949923/rain-forest-ransom