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100			_aNie, Martin
245			_aDrivers of natural resource-based political conflict
260			_c2003
300			_ap.307-41.
362			_aDec
520			_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.
650			_aNatural resources
773			_aPolicy Sciences
909			_a60190
999			_c60190 _d60190