Coal mining on pastureland in Southern Chile; challenging recognition and participation as guarantees for environmental justice

Bustos, Beatriz; Folchi, Mauricio; Fragkou, María Christina

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.12.012

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“…Even when I went down the line of planning, it was still not believed and ridiculed" (COU002). While individuals, themselves, were allowed to provide input about their concerns, the process of public participation was nevertheless characterized by a lack of recognition of values and lifestyles of those opposing the development (Bustos et al 2017). Individuals' ideas of how farming should be organized in the area and what environment they would like to live in were not recognized by decision-makers (George and Reed 2017).…”

Section: Procedural Environmental Injustice and Farming Intensificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, local residents were heard, but did not possess the power to guarantee that the decision-makers would heed their input (Arnstein 1969). They were unable to influence farm construction decisions through official channels, which resulted in their disempowerment in the decision-making process (Bustos et al 2017).…”

Section: Procedural Environmental Injustice and Farming Intensificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Farming Intensification and Environmental Justice in Northern Ireland

Gladkova

2020

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Going for Growth, an industry-led strategy to expand the agri-food sector, was adopted by the Northern Irish government in 2013 in order to encourage farming intensification in Northern Ireland. This approach, however, threatens an already fragile natural environment and has already had detrimental consequences for human health and well-being. This article employs an environmental justice perspective to scrutinize farming intensification in a community affected by this phenomenon. Based on findings from semi-structured interviews with local residents, the article describes their exposure to environmental risks as a result of farming intensification. The uneven distribution of environmental burdens is also coupled with limited opportunities for the local residents to engage in environmental decision-making and to be recognized as active agents of change. The article concludes that farming intensification in Northern Ireland is marked by procedural environmental injustice and should be addressed by downscaling levels of production and reforming decisionmaking processes.

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Section: Procedural Environmental Injustice and Farming Intensificationmentioning

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Section: Procedural Environmental Injustice and Farming Intensificationmentioning

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Farming Intensification and Environmental Justice in Northern Ireland

Gladkova

2020

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“…Because of the development of and increasing interest in sustainable development (SD), the number of publications devoted to the environmental and social aspects of mining has increased [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Research on the SD of the mining industry focuses on reclamation costs [31][32][33][34][35], the balance of expenditures, the level of local communities' satisfaction with the mining enterprise and the public image of the mining enterprises [36,37].…”

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Dependence of Total Production Costs on Production and Infrastructure Parameters in the Polish Hard Coal Mining Industry

Jonek-Kowalska¹,

Turek²

2017

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European hard coalmining is a declining industry, despite the use of hard coal for energy in several countries. Industry restructuring and public subsidies have failed to stop this industry's decline. The largest hard coalmining sector, the Polish sector, has faced an obstacle to its survival: How to reduce production costs to compete with less expensive imported hard coal? This article aims to identify and analyze the dependence of the total production costs representing production and infrastructure parameters of the Polish hard coalmining industry. The parameters are divided into three groups: (1) the cost of employees and the production volume; (2) the number of longwalls, the length of a longwall, the daily longwall advance and the preparatory work advance; and (3) the number of levels in exploitation, the number of layers in exploitation and the number of shafts. The findings indicate that, even in well-functioning coalmines, there are many economically irrational relationships, especially regarding employment and infrastructure size. This study shows that employment, which is a significant cost component of the production and infrastructure parameters of the examined Polish hard coalmines, is not economically rational in terms of its proportion to the total production costs. As a result, even a considerable reduction in employment or infrastructure does not influence the unit costs of mining production, which could only be partially explained by the high level of fixed costs. There are also no appropriate relationships between infrastructure parameters and the total production cost. Under these irrational conditions, a reduction in the production costs of hard coalmining enterprises is difficult, but unproductive costly activities could prevent an improvement in production efficiency. Only restoring the proper relationship between economic and infrastructure parameters and the total production costs can ensure a return to price competitiveness. Those actions are crucial for the Polish hard coalmining industry, because the research focused on successful hard coalmines that were not declining indicate it should be able to implement cost improvements.

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“…There is an extensive and interdisciplinary body of scholarly work that utilizes qualitative and quantitative social research methods to analyze mining activities and conflicts from spatial, socio-economic and ecological distribution perspectives [ 10 – 13 ]. The environmental justice (EJ) and political ecology literatures, for instance, abound with studies that employ the case study approach to uncover and shed light on the central concerns and claims of the social actors involved in mining resistance struggles [ 14 – 21 ]. Accordingly, civil society organizations (CSOs) active in mining conflicts focus on two issues in particular: on the link between distributional concerns (the need for environmental health and security) and claims for recognition (the defense of basic human rights and indigenous territorial rights) [ 22 – 23 ], and on the importance of participation in decision-making, so as to be able to introduce alternative visions of development in decision-making processes (participation) [ 10 , 24 ].…”

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Network effects in environmental justice struggles: An investigation of conflicts between mining companies and civil society organizations from a network perspective

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This paper examines conflicts that occur between mining companies and civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world and offers an innovative analysis of mining conflicts from a social network perspective. The analysis showed that, as the number of CSOs involved in a conflict increased, its outcome was more likely to be perceived as a success in terms of environmental justice (EJ); if a CSO was connected to other central CSOs, the average perception of EJ success was likely to increase; and as network distance between two conflicts increased (or decreased), they were more likely to lead to different (or similar) EJ outcomes. Such network effects in mining conflicts have policy implications for EJ movements. It would be a strategic move on the part of successful CSOs to become involved in other major conflicts and disseminate information about how they achieved greater EJ success.

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Coal mining on pastureland in Southern Chile; challenging recognition and participation as guarantees for environmental justice

Cited by 38 publications

References 35 publications

Farming Intensification and Environmental Justice in Northern Ireland

Farming Intensification and Environmental Justice in Northern Ireland

Dependence of Total Production Costs on Production and Infrastructure Parameters in the Polish Hard Coal Mining Industry

Network effects in environmental justice struggles: An investigation of conflicts between mining companies and civil society organizations from a network perspective

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