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Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad
Lori Leonard
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Description for Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 7 b&w illus., 3 tables. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project-a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation ... Read more
Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project-a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253019837
SKU
V9780253019837
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About Lori Leonard
Lori Leonard is International Professor and Associate Professor in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
Reviews for Life in the Time of Oil: A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad
Life in the Time of Oil is important, providing rich empirical insight organized in an accessible and focused analysis that interrogates the continued promotion of resource-based capitalist development in Africa today.
Africa
Overall, Leonard advances a convincing and credible argument that the failure of the oil project has not only happened at the macro level, but has also ... Read more
Africa
Overall, Leonard advances a convincing and credible argument that the failure of the oil project has not only happened at the macro level, but has also ... Read more