An Economic Evaluation of the Health and Agricultural Damages Caused by Copper Mining in Chile

Campos, Levi; Mardones, Cristián

doi:10.1017/lar.2022.16

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“…The impact pathway approach is one of the most used methods for assessing environmental damage. This method comprises a sequence of interrelated models that make it possible to economically value the environmental damage associated with the change in the emission of a pollutant (Campos & Mardones, 2023;Kang et al, 2021;Mardones & Mena, 2020;Silveira et al, 2016). This methodology is standard for calculating the social cost of carbon and other pollutants, including the valuation of agricultural productivity, human health, damage due to flood risk, and damage to the ecosystem.…”

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Estimation of green mining GDP for 40 countries

Mardones

2023

Natural Resources Forum

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Mining is an important economic activity and a source of fiscal resources in many countries. However, its contribution to GDP does not reflect the depletion of non‐renewable natural resources and the environmental damage caused. For this reason, methodologies have emerged that allow correcting the traditional GDP through the so‐called green GDP. The main objective of this study is to use the same method, data from the same source, and economic valuation of the same components to compare the green GDP among countries and its evolution over time. Specifically, the green mining GDP (in millions of dollars for the year 2014) is estimated for 40 countries, valuing the depreciation of natural capital and the environmental damage associated with global and local air pollutants emissions. The results show that the green mining GDP represents only 24.4% of the mining GDP in all the countries studied from 2000 to 2014. However, the indicator is quite heterogeneous among countries and years analyzed. For example, 25 countries have had a positive green mining GDP in all years, and 10 countries have achieved it in recent years. Thus, it is concluded that there is ample space to develop more sustainable mining in many countries.

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Estimation of green mining GDP for 40 countries

Mardones

2023

Natural Resources Forum

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“…If two sets of variables do not have two identical elements, when one variable can be presented as a good monotonous function of another variable, +1 or -1 can be achieved between the two variables. [9] Figure 3. Correlation analysis hotspot map.…”

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Research on green GDP accounting system based on principal component analysis and BP neural network

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Zhao

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Fourth International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling, and Intelligent Computing (CAMMIC 2024)

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Traditional GDP accounting only pursues the development of economic aggregate, ignoring the loss of energy resources and the destruction of natural environment, thus triggering a new upsurge of green GDP research in the theoretical circle. Compared with traditional GDP, green GDP is a more sustainable economic evaluation index, considering resource cost and environmental cost when calculating national economy. Based on the internationally accepted green Gross Domestic Product (GGDP) calculation method and scholars' research, a new GGDP calculation model is proposed in this paper, which is mainly divided into two parts: natural resource loss and environmental pollution loss, which are respectively divided into two primary factors. The portfolio of sub-criteria reflecting sustainable development capacity was reduced to 13 factors. Principal component analysis was used to find out the representative principal factors. On this basis, the relationship between the main factors, gdp and global mean temperature, and the influence of each factor on the temperature forecast in 2020-2040 are analyzed. Based on IESI and BP neural network model, a global temperature mitigation prediction model considering the sea temperature and land temperature of each climate country is established. The results show that there is a 74% probability that the GGDP growth rate is positively correlated with temperature change over 50 years. Using the computational model GGDP, the differences between development patterns and global GDP and green GDP are analyzed, and the relationship between environmental efficiency and global mean temperature is examined. All factors are proportional to global temperature, indicating that natural resource utilization and pollution emissions have significant effects on economic growth and temperature rise. Finally, it evaluates the global sustainable development level from the perspective of economy and environment, and establishes the sustainable development evaluation method.

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“…En América Latina, y particularmente en Chile, existe una amplia literatura sobre diversos aspectos del extractivismo minero: i) los impactos biofísicos generados sobre los recursos hídricos, el suelo y los medios de vida locales (Chávez et al, 2023;Campos y Mardones, 2023); ii) los impactos sociales y las transformaciones en las formas de vida tradicional (Calderón-Seguel et al, 2021); iii) la poca integración de las zonas mineras en las economías nacionales y la configuración de desigualdades territoriales (Uribe et al, 2023a; Bolados y Babidge, 2017); iv) el surgimiento de múltiples conflictos socioambientales (Irarrázaval et al, 2023;Palmisano, 2020). La revisión de literatura muestra valiosos aportes sobre la relación minería y desarrollo, sin embargo, aún son pocas las investigaciones que estudian conjuntamente la distribución de la riqueza y las presiones territoriales que se imprimen en los lugares de extracción.…”

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Extractivismo minero en Chile: concentración privada de riqueza y conflictos socioambientales

Uribe-Sierra,

Toscana Aparicio,

Mora-Rojas

2023

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El estudio del extractivismo es relevante en América Latina, existe un amplio debate sobre los procesos sociales y ambientales que produce en los territorios. Los gobiernos latinoamericanos destacan los altos niveles que registran los indicadores macroeconómicos de la actividad, como el carácter superavitario de la balanza comercial, el valor de las exportaciones de minerales o la contribución al Producto Interno Bruto; al mismo tiempo, estudios académicos argumentan que la minería fomenta el desarrollo económico y contribuye a la reducción de la pobreza en las zonas donde se implementa. Sin embargo, este trabajo sostiene que el extractivismo minero conduce a la concentración privada de riqueza y a la proliferación de conflictos socioambientales. Mediante una revisión de literatura especializada y de un análisis de variables con estadística descriptiva se analizó la relación entre el extractivismo, la concentración privada de riqueza y los conflictos socioambientales. Se encontró que, a pesar del superávit de ingresos por las exportaciones de cobre, las aportaciones de este sector a la economía van en detrimento; dicho superávit contrasta con el déficit de material del cobre y el agotamiento de otros recursos naturales necesarios para la vida. Las zonas donde se localizan los principales proyectos mineros presentan datos de pobreza multidimensional elevados en comparación con las ganancias creadas por la minería. Esto denota una distribución desigual de la riqueza y una concentración de daños ecológicos en los territorios de extracción, lo que impulsa el surgimiento de conflictos socioambientales.

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An Economic Evaluation of the Health and Agricultural Damages Caused by Copper Mining in Chile

Cited by 3 publications

References 51 publications

Estimation of green mining GDP for 40 countries

Estimation of green mining GDP for 40 countries

Research on green GDP accounting system based on principal component analysis and BP neural network

Extractivismo minero en Chile: concentración privada de riqueza y conflictos socioambientales

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