01541pab a2200157 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Nie, Martin Drivers of natural resource-based political conflict 2003 p.307-41. Dec Why 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. Natural resources Policy Sciences 60190 60190 60190 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 36, Issue no: 3-4 AR60636 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR