Do fiscal windfalls increase mining conflicts? Not always

Orihuela, José Carlos; Pérez, Carlos Antonio Flores; Huaroto, César

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2018.07.010

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“…The [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Taken as a group, these researchers have pushed the quantitative study of the resource curse to the subnational and local levels, and have done so by successfully integrating diverse sources of data including company characteristics; land-use patterns; surveys conducted by third parties; government statistics (censuses, financial transfers); coding of government reports such as environmental impact assessment documents; characteristics of the party system; and protest data available from the media, NGOs, academic projects, and, in the case of Peru, the National Ombudsman's Office.…”

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“…As previously mentioned, Haslam and Ary Tanimoune [23] integrated PEA with an independently determined list of mining properties, and were, thus, able to include both conflict and non-conflict cases in their analysis, improving causal inference. In Peru, researchers have tended to rely on conflict accounts provided by the National Ombudsman's Office [15,[27][28][29]. Others have relied on activist sites that aggregate information about resource conflicts [14,20,23].…”

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Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Haslam

2020

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New data sources that I characterize as “bigger data” can offer insight into the causes and consequences of socio-environmental conflicts, especially in the mining and extractive sectors, improving the accuracy and generalizability of findings. This article considers several contemporary methods for generating, compiling, and structuring data including geographic information system (GIS) data, and protest event analysis (PEA). Methodologies based on the use of bigger data and quantitative methods can complement, challenge, and even substitute for findings from the qualitative literature. A review of the literature shows that a particularly promising approach is to combine multiple sources of data to analyze complex problems. Moreover, such approaches permit the researcher to conduct methodologically rigorous desk-based research that is suited to areas with difficult field conditions or restricted access, and is especially relevant in a pandemic and post-pandemic context in which the ability to conduct field research is constrained.

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Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Haslam

2020

Sustainability

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“…The academic literature on the resource curse is vast and contested in several areas (Ross, 2015). Strong arguments, for example, have been advanced that natural resources do (Ramsay, 2011;Ross, 2015) or do not (Haber and Menaldo, 2011;Brooks and Kurtz, 2016) hinder the establishment or consolidation of democracy and that they do (Collier and Hoeffler, 1998), do not (Paine, 2016) or sometimes do and sometimes do not (Orihuelaa et al, 2019) increase the risks of civil war. We do not argue that there is or is not a generic resource curse.…”

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Minerals are a shared inheritance: Accounting for the resource curse

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Pegg

2020

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Many countries badly mismanage their natural resource endowments. We argue that a fundamental change in paradigm is needed. Specifically, we advocate treating non-renewable natural resources as a finite shared inheritance asset, and extraction as the sale of the inherited wealth. We identify several proposals that logically derive from treating natural resource proceeds as sales of a finite intergenerational inheritance rather than as revenues that can be spent. Such proposals suggest that mineral owners must strive for zero-loss when selling minerals, establish a passively invested future generations fund from the proceeds and distribute dividends from that fund to citizens as the rightful owners of the shared inheritance. The current dominant metaphor of proceeds from the exploitation of non-renewable mineral resources as being "windfall revenues" is underpinned by government accounting standards. The "windfall revenue" metaphor is not only inaccurate but also produces several pernicious effects that help explain the poor management of natural resource endowments in so many countries. We do not anticipate that our ideas will quickly overturn decades of established practice. We do, however, believe that the case needs to be made.

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“…Por un lado, un grueso de la literatura -principalmente la que emplea métodos cuantitativos-vincula la expansión de los conflictos socioambientales con una versión local de la «maldición de recursos» y el balance general arroja resultados mixtos en el impacto de las industrias extractivas (Arce, 2015;Arellano, 2011a;Orihuela, Huaroto y Paredes, 2014;Orihuela, Pérez y Huaroto, 2018). Por otro lado, numerosos estudios de casos profundizan esta discusión señalando que la relación conflictiva no es inmediata ni directa o lineal, y que son recurrentes las demandas por mayores recursos o la defensa del medio ambiente a partir de la contaminación de las empresas mineras, incluyendo el incumplimiento de compromisos asumidos en procesos de negociación (Acuña, 2015; Damonte y Glave, 2016).…”

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¿El pasado importa? Legados institucionales, sociedad civil y burocracia local para la gestión de conflictos socioambientales en Moquegua (2000-2016)

Cárdenas

2019

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In Peru, the recent commodity boom and high transfers by mining canon have meant a series of challenges and challenges for the State, in particular, the management of socio-environmental conflicts linked to extractive activities. However, a general balance shows strong contrasts where, on the one hand, we find regions with persistence of social conflicts and little progress in the rounds tables, while other regions show learning in the management of social conflicts from the local bureaucracy and civil society. Why, in some local contexts, mining activity has led to serious problems of social conflict and in others it has not? This research focuses on the department of Moquegua (2002-2016), a region dependent on mining revenues that has shown a positive performance in the management of socioenvironmental conflicts and in the negotiating tables for the viability of mining projects. Considering the importance of the regional context, the central argument proposes that the institutional legacies and active participation of civil society are key factors to understand the trajectory in the management of social conflict. Finally, these factors will help us to understand the challenges of the state for the management of conflicts in other regions.

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Do fiscal windfalls increase mining conflicts? Not always

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Bigger Data and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Socio-Environmental Conflicts

Minerals are a shared inheritance: Accounting for the resource curse

¿El pasado importa? Legados institucionales, sociedad civil y burocracia local para la gestión de conflictos socioambientales en Moquegua (2000-2016)

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