Activists and regulatory politics: Institutional opportunities, information, and the activation of environmental regulation

Haslam, Paul Alexander; Godfrid, Julieta

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2020.06.019

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“…According to Arce et al 112 , people who perceive their government has the capacity to respond to their claims are ready to protest; conversely, those who observe the incapacity to establish long-term changes doubt the effectiveness of exercising this right. Hence the importance of exchanging information between the civil society and the regulating state in the dynamics of a socioenvironmental conflict, due to the unequal conditions to access institutional mechanisms, to look for allies and to model strategies to obtain results 113 .…”

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Socioenvironmental conflicts and social representations surrounding mining extractivism at Santurban

Rueda

Beltrán-Villamizar

Murallas-Sánchez

2022

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During the process of delimitation of the Santurban moorland ecosystem (Colombia), a socioenvironmental conflict arose from small and large-scale mining extractivism. This study analyzes the social representations of settlers in this moorland ecosystem, regarding the meaning, practice and value of their territory and water as a vital resource, in order to interpret their perceptions on the internal dynamics of conflict and the different aspects symbolizing their complexity. An ethnographic design was implemented by NVIVO software information coding. The findings underscore the uncertainty of rural stakeholders facing the impossibility to continue to develop ancestral mining activities and the disputes arising from the urban setting for the defense of water. It was concluded that the socioenvironmental conflict presented requires ongoing participation from rural and urban settlers, in consideration to their permanent questions regarding the current situation in their regions and the permanent search for solutions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socioenvironmental conflicts and social representations surrounding mining extractivism at Santurban

Rueda

Beltrán-Villamizar

Murallas-Sánchez

2022

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“…The agent group, either NGOs or largeholders, achieving a government response resets its pressure contingent to its baseline while the agent group whose pressure was not responded to sets its pressure contingent to half of its current value. This mechanism reflects the recognition by agents that the government has limited capacity to respond to pressure while maintaining a raised pressure contingent from the losing side (Haslam & Godfrid 2020;Jänicke 1992). Interactions among the government and largeholders and/or smallholders are tracked.…”

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Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Governance (ABSOLUG) in Tropical Commodity Frontiers

Essén

Lambin

2023

JASSS

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Well-designed land use governance that involves multiple stakeholders is crucial to reducing deforestation in tropical commodity frontiers. The effectiveness of different governance interventions is difficult to assess due to long implementation times and challenges to conducting real-world experiments. Here we introduce an agent-based simulation of land use governance (ABSOLUG) to examine the interactions among governments, commodity producers, and civil society and assess the impacts of different land use governance approaches on deforestation. The model represents a generic commodity producing landscape in the tropics with a central marketplace and features four groups of agents: largeholders, smallholders, NGOs, and a government. The objective of largeholders and smallholders is to generate profits through the production of commodity crops. Statistical evaluation through local and global sensitivity analyses shows that the model is robust, and few parameters show threshold behaviors. We used three governance scenario to evaluate the model operationally. The hands-off scenario was inspired by high rates of tropical deforestation in the second half of the 20th century, the middle-ground scenario by compliance with international conservation treaties, and the proactive government scenario by a few recent cases of forest transition countries. The hands-off scenario led to quasi-complete deforestation of the landscape at the end of the simulation period, while deforestation in the middle-ground scenario leveled off and then stagnated. In the proactive government scenario, deforestation decreased and eventually stopped in the second half of the simulation period, followed by reforestation. We demonstrate that the ABSOLUG model can simulate key policy interventions and land use trajectories in tropical systems, and as such can be a valuable contribution to the growing literature on environmental policy and governance evaluation.

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“…As in other historically poor provinces of the Northwest, authorities cultivated clientelist relationships with society based on the provision of public employment (Gervasoni 2010; Svampa et al 2010, 157–60; Rodriguez Pardo 2011, 47–48). San Juan authorities were probably more interventionist than those in Chile, retaining considerable discretion to informally pressure private mining companies on local procurement, employment, and social responsibility spending (Haslam and Godfrid 2020).…”

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“…Figure 1 also shows an increase in social mobilization around 2010 related to the federal Glacier Law as activists seized on its potential to cancel the project, and by 2011, antimining protests had emerged across the country, including neighboring provinces (Wagner 2016). Social movements in San Juan federalized their opposition to Pascua Lama by framing their conflict with Barrick as a dispute over glaciers and by networking with other like-minded organizations nationally to demand the implementation of the federal law, in the streets and the courts (Haslam and Godfrid 2020).…”

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Lost in Corporate Translation: How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector

Haslam¹,

Godfrid²

2023

Lat Am Polit Soc

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Firms should be considered as actors that potentially mediate between social movement pressures and policy outcomes. This article shows that at the mining project level, social mobilization can generate important changes in corporate practices toward nearby communities, and that these practices can undermine the cohesion of social movement coalitions advocating for regulatory intervention or reform, thus limiting their ability to make compelling claims on the state. In this way, company interpretations of and responses to protest are an important mediating process that conditions civil society efforts to activate state institutions in their favor. This argument extends recent work on the social foundations of regulation in Latin America by including corporate actors. The article is based on a comparative case study of the Pascua Lama/Veladero mining projects in both Argentina and Chile, using both secondary sources and primary field research.

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Activists and regulatory politics: Institutional opportunities, information, and the activation of environmental regulation

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Socioenvironmental conflicts and social representations surrounding mining extractivism at Santurban

Socioenvironmental conflicts and social representations surrounding mining extractivism at Santurban

Agent-Based Simulation of Land Use Governance (ABSOLUG) in Tropical Commodity Frontiers

Lost in Corporate Translation: How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector

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