Geography

Title

Extraterritorial investments, environmental crisis, and collective action in Latin America

Document Type

Article

Abstract

A growing number of extraterritorial private-sector actors, often in partnership with the state, are expanding the frontiers of extractive and primary export economies to new rural territories in Latin America. This paper analyzes the conditions that might drive meaningful efforts to address environmental problems in territories dominated by large, externally controlled natural resource-based activities. It studies three cases: salmon aquaculture in Chiloé (Chile), fruit growing in O'Higgins (Chile), and gas production in Tarija (Bolivia). We conclude that such efforts are unlikely to occur unless environmental problems directly threaten the short-term viability of the activities or social movements emerge to demand change.

Publication Title

World Development

Publication Date

9-2015

Volume

73

First Page

32

Last Page

43

ISSN

0305-750X

DOI

10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.020

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