The Yasuní ITT Initiative and the Creation of Global Green Sovereignty

Author

MarlaRose Gridley, University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors CollegeFollow

Date of Award

2018

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Croft Institute for International Studies

First Advisor

Marcos Mendoza

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

The Yasuní-ITT Initiative was an international financing scheme in which the Ecuadorian government agreed to forgo drilling in the Yasuní National Park in exchange for foreign compensation in the amount of $3.6 billion USD over 12 years. Embedded in a global framework of revenue redistribution for development, the Yasuní-ITT Initiative established a model of global environmental care based on global North-South difference and historical ecological debt. In doing so, it impacted, through prospective flows of aid, the conceptualization of Ecuadorian sovereignty.

Comments

A thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for completion of the Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from the Croft Institute for International Studies and the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.

Recommended Citation

Gridley, MarlaRose, "The Yasuní ITT Initiative and the Creation of Global Green Sovereignty" (2018). Honors Theses. 639.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/639

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