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Natural Resources by Numbers: The Promise of “El uno por mil” in Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Oil Operations

Natural Resources by Numbers: The Promise of “El uno por mil” in Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Oil Operations N atural Resources by Numbers The Promise of “El uno por mil” in Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Oil Operations Amelia Fiske ABSTRACT: In 2013, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced the end of the Yasuní-ITT initiative. Th e initiative had proposed to combat climate change by not exploiting oil reserves in one section of the Yasuní National Park. Anticipating outcry, Correa promised that operations would a ect ff less than one thousandth of the park, or “menos del uno por mil.” Th is article examines the role of numerical calculations in the governance of subterranean resources. Numbers do a particular kind of labor to rationalize the shift contained in the Yasuní-ITT initiative that rhetoric alone does not. Metrics such as el uno por mil constitute and translate between diverse realms of value. Yet, contrary to the assumption that numbers are derived from strictly technical, expert processes, I show how such metrics are fundamental to translations between incalcu- lable matters of nature, the future, and the “good” when deployed in contests over the eff ects of oil on life. KEYWORDS: Amazon, environment, extraction, numbers, Rafael Correa, Yasuní In 2013, President Rafael Correa announced his decision to end the much-heralded Yasuní- ITT initiative. Th http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Society Berghahn Books

Natural Resources by Numbers: The Promise of “El uno por mil” in Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Oil Operations

Fiske, Amelia
Environment and Society , Volume 8 (1) – Sep 1, 2017
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10.3167/ares.2017.080106
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N atural Resources by Numbers The Promise of “El uno por mil” in Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT Oil Operations Amelia Fiske ABSTRACT: In 2013, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa announced the end of the Yasuní-ITT initiative. Th e initiative had proposed to combat climate change by not exploiting oil reserves in one section of the Yasuní National Park. Anticipating outcry, Correa promised that operations would a ect ff less than one thousandth of the park, or “menos del uno por mil.” Th is article examines the role of numerical calculations in the governance of subterranean resources. Numbers do a particular kind of labor to rationalize the shift contained in the Yasuní-ITT initiative that rhetoric alone does not. Metrics such as el uno por mil constitute and translate between diverse realms of value. Yet, contrary to the assumption that numbers are derived from strictly technical, expert processes, I show how such metrics are fundamental to translations between incalcu- lable matters of nature, the future, and the “good” when deployed in contests over the eff ects of oil on life. KEYWORDS: Amazon, environment, extraction, numbers, Rafael Correa, Yasuní In 2013, President Rafael Correa announced his decision to end the much-heralded Yasuní- ITT initiative. Th

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Environment and Society – Berghahn Books

Published: Sep 1, 2017

Keywords: Amazon;environment;extraction;numbers;Rafael Correa;Yasuní

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