01490pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001600040245005700056260000900113300001400122362000800136520117000144650002201314773002001336180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aNie, Martin  aDrivers of natural resource-based political conflict  c2003  ap.307-41.  aDec  aWhy are some natural resource-based political conflicts so controversial, acrfimonious and intractable? What factors drive these conflicts? And what turns the common political conflict into the high-level, symbolic, and sustained political conflict? This paper conceptualizes the `drivers' of natural resource-based political conflict in the United States. It examines the dominant themes, patterns and underlying logic of these conflicts. The very nature and context of these cases sometimes promise intractability, but they are also often `wicked by design' in that political actors, institutions and policy processes often compound them. The following drivers of conflict are discussed: scarcity the policy surrogate, the sacred and spiritual and importance of place, policy design (historical and budgetary), policy frames, scientific disagreement and uncertainty, electoral politics and the use of wedge issues, political and interest group strategy, media framing, adversarial governance. Constitutional, statutory and administrative language, and district. The paper finishes by placing natural resource-based conflict in political perspective. - Reproduced.  aNatural resources  aPolicy Sciences