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
Repository Citation
Ospina Peralta, Pablo; Bebbington, Anthony; Hollenstein, Patric; Nussbaum, Ilana; and Ramírez, Eduardo, "Extraterritorial investments, environmental crisis, and collective action in Latin America" (2015). Geography. 456.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/456