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Socio-environmental conflict over abandoned mining waste in Copaquilla, Chile
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021The material discarded by past mining extractive activities is exposed to the action of different environmental agents and constitutes the beginning of a problem that, inevitably, involves the population and the conditions of the environment where it is deposited. Bearing this in mind, a study of the Copaquilla-Chile valley was carried out with a focus
Alan Quispe-Jofré +2 more
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Contested discourses, knowledge, and socio-environmental conflict in Ecuador
Environmental Science & Policy, 2013This paper explores how multiple types of knowledge – epistemic, technical, and anecdotal – are combined and used discursively within the claim-making process of a long-running socio-environmental conflict concerning copper extraction and its threat to biodiversity conservation in Ecuador's Intag valley cloud-forest.
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Socio-environmental conflicts: An underestimated threat to biodiversity conservation in Chile
Environmental Science & Policy, 2020Abstract Biodiversity is vital in the functioning of ecosystems, but it’s permanently being threatened by anthropic impacts derived from productive activities. Thus, conservation has become a global challenge. In Chile, the dissociation between economic activities and conservation has triggered numerous socio-environmental conflicts in recent decades.
Daniela M. Carranza +8 more
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Socio-environmental conflict: an opportunity for mining companies
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014openaire +4 more sources
Urban Regeneration, Forests and Socio-Environmental Conflicts
2020ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol. 19 No.
Zinzani, Andrea, Curzi, Enrico
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Socio-environmental nuclear conflicts: the case of El Cabril
International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management, 2013Since the commissioning of the ‘El Cabril’ Central Storage Facility for Low- and Intermediate-level Radioactive Waste (hereafter ‘El Cabril’), most people living in nearby towns and villages have regarded this nuclear facility with a marked degree of rejection and distrust.
M.V. Gil Cerezo +2 more
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Socio-environmental Risks and Conflicts in Colombia and Mexico
2018The existing economic development model in most of the Latin American and Caribbean countries – with the exception of Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Cuba – prioritised economic growth over some other notions of multidimensional development, such as environmental sustainability, social justice, pluralism and respect for human rights, among others.
Nathaly Burbano Muñoz +2 more
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Latin American Perspectives, 2018
During the mid-2000s, Honduras and El Salvador implemented mining moratoria. By 2017 El Salvador had legislated a globally unprecedented ban on all forms of metal mining, while in Honduras mining was expanding aggressively. These neighboring countries present the explanatory challenge of understanding the distinct trajectories of mining policy and ...
Bebbington, A, Fash, B, Rogan, J
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During the mid-2000s, Honduras and El Salvador implemented mining moratoria. By 2017 El Salvador had legislated a globally unprecedented ban on all forms of metal mining, while in Honduras mining was expanding aggressively. These neighboring countries present the explanatory challenge of understanding the distinct trajectories of mining policy and ...
Bebbington, A, Fash, B, Rogan, J
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Avoiding Greenwash by Design: Resolving Market and Socio-Environmental Ethical Conflicts
ICSDC 2011, 2012This paper examines the development of a broadly applicable comparative assessment framework for resolving design/specification dilemmas resulting from the clash of socio-environmental and marketplace ethics. First, the study frames the ethical standings and conflicts of each of these intentions.
David A. Crutchfield, Matthew Lunde
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The politics of extractive governance: Indigenous peoples and socio-environmental conflicts
The Extractive Industries and Society, 2015Social conflicts related to extractive industries in Peru tend to be conceptualised as problems of governance, namely, as conflicts generated from ill-designed policies for distribution of revenues from extractive industries, formal political participation, transparency and conflict management.
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