Rebotier J. auteur aut IRD Metzger Pascale auteur aut IRD Pigeon P. auteur aut IRD Lalama A. B. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle spa text/pdf born digital access Seen from Ecuador, Esmeraldas is a strategic city, yet a vulnerable one. The structure of its territory imbeds various regimes of accumulation, successively linked with the banana and the oil booms, and, more recently with tourism development. Each time, those booms framed different parts of the city: the Esmeraldas river embankments, the lower river Teaone valley, and the seafront - Balneario de Las Palmas. Each time, those evolutions escaped land-use planning, as well as control by the local actors. The main actors driving urban dynamics gathered foreign companies, the Ecuadorian state, the oil and energy-related sectors. Informal settlements were the rule, with no or limited investment in water and energy supply networks coming from the main actors already mentioned. This situation favoured a wide range of risks. They evolved in tune with urbanization phases, with the accumulation regimes and the main political actors related. The paper sheds light on those dynamics and on the role official and late land-use planning plays. specialized regimes of accumulation urban risks oil governance EQUATEUR 102 095 77 211-231 2020 0379-8682 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081267 0379-8682 [F B010081267] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010081267 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2021-05/010081267.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2021-05-17 2021-05-18 fdi:010081267 fre