Abstract

In countries, regardless of hemisphere and levels of development, the demand and consumption of energy have begun to direct environmental governance from national scales towards the local. As a result, developing countries, such as Ecuador, which continues to possess staggering quantities of primary materials, is more susceptible to extractive natural resource policies. This imbalance of Ecuadorian state pressures that feed from globalizing energy forces are literally disintegrating and fragmenting political, geographic, and cultural boundaries by falsely territorializing predominately rural areas in provinces bordering the Ecuadorian Amazon.