The spatial organization of oil and gas investments in South America: an analysis based on communities

• Autor(a) principal: Françoso, Mariane Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Breul, Moritz, Hiratuka, Celio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Nova Economia (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/novaeconomia/article/view/4756

The global economy is organized in value chains, spatially and functionally fragmented. Despite this dispersion, the administrative activities of these chains continue to be concentrated in some cities, which playan important role in certain chains, because they concentrate companies and economic flows. The research on value chains has not focused on the city level and has adopted mainly case studies as the methodologicalapproach. Considering this, we apply a network methodology to analyse the powerful cities in the South American oil and gas investment network, including the attributes that explain this position and the spatial extent of it. To perform this analysis, we use data on green and brownfi eld investments. Our results indicate that Rio de Janeiro is the most central city in this network, but its action is mainly concentrated in Brazil.This work seeks to contribute mainly to the methodological development of the studies in the area. Keywords: global value chains, networks, Louvain communities, oil and gas.