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May222012

Oil and Water: Empowering Communities Living in Resource Extraction Regions

Mary Fifield and Maria del Carmen Pantoj, APF, 2012

An analysis of Amazon Partnership Foundation's Community Self-Development Methodology.

"While families struggle daily to provide for themselves and protect their community's welfare through adequate and sustainable use of their natural resources, they also search for ways to coexist with oil drilling, mining or timber operations in their territory. Given this situation, the question arises: How can communities benefit from an empowerment process tha enables them to articulate and carry out their vision of sustainable development?"

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