The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data

Haslam, Paul Alexander; Tanimoune, Nasser Ary

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.020

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“…In Peru, mining companies tax about 40% of all their utilities. In spite of this, poor institutionality causes distribution problems, which remains one of the fundamental causes of conflicts between mines and communities [27]. For this reason, it is important to identify the economic activities of the place in order to promote it and make them grow with the help of the state.…”

Section: Economy (V9)mentioning

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Stakeholders and Criteria on a Mining Project using AHP and Entropy-Weight Methods

Ríos*,

Delgado*

2019

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The abidance and evolution of mining industry for the Peruvian government is of great relevance nowadays, due to the economic impact, this entails in order to increase the gross domestic product and reduce the poverty index. Nevertheless, in the last few years this production sector suffered numerous problems because of the complicated social relationships with the rural communities near the mining projects. The purpose of this study is to analyze the probability of a social conflict due to the appearance of a mining project in Macusani (Puno-Peru), using the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) methodology to evaluate the stakeholders and the entropy-weight method for the criteria. In order to accomplish the evaluation, we interview seven experts in community relationships that gave us their perspectives through the polls. In terms of results, we determine that the stakeholders in order of importance were communal authorities, alpaca livestock, local and regional government, farmers and merchants. By the other hand, the strongest variables in a social conflict were pollution, poverty level, employment, health, economy, water access and security. The analysis of this case of study can improve new innovative techniques to affront the potential appearance of a social conflict, in order to create a social responsibility awareness. This can generate a positive impact expressed in benefits for the local communities, the government and the enterprise.

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Section: Economy (V9)mentioning

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Stakeholders and Criteria on a Mining Project using AHP and Entropy-Weight Methods

Ríos*,

Delgado*

2019

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“…In that contemporary classic, the divergent economic development of two otherwise "identical" cross-border towns, Nogales (Sonora, Mexico), and Nogales (Arizona, USA) is explained by the principal substantive difference between them -the historical development of political institutions (Acemoglu & Robinson, 2012, 7). Although we must recognize the specificity of any given case, when looking at the two sides of Pascua Lama project, it is apparent that many of the principal variables considered to be determinants of activist mobilization (Bebbington & Bury, 2013;Haslam & Ary Tanimoune, 2016;Conde & LeBillon, 2017) and policy influence (Tosun & Workman, 2018;Baumgartner et al, 2018, 62), are broadly similar, while the variable of interest, institutional quality, varies significantly. I comment on each of these variables in turn: o Firm and project.…”

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“…The political settlement in mining was grounded in federal recognition of provincial claims to autonomous development and regulation of the sector, following constitutional reform in 1994. Elite consensus on the desirability of mining was strong in provinces like San Juan under governor José Luis Gioja (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015), where mining was seen as an important source of provincial revenue and employment in jurisdictions that were historically rentiers dependent on transfers from the federal government (Gervasoni, 2010, 306;Haslam, 2016Haslam, , 2018.…”

Section: Pascua Lama: a Flawed Project And Perfect Comparative Casementioning

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The Two Sides of Pascua Lama: Social Protest, Institutional Responses, and Feedback Loops

Haslam

2018

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The article shows that the ability of activists to achieve outcomes that they value is fundamentally conditioned by how bureaucracies implement policies and regulations. Relatively minor changes to bureaucratic policies, regulatory enforcement, or judicial oversight-in a context of rule of law and institutional capacity to implement-can generate new opportunities and feedback loops that increase the influence of social movements over extractive sector governance, even when other political and legislative opportunities are closed. In this regard, despite the failure of glacier legislation in Chile, increased bureaucratic and judicial responsiveness enhanced the ability of social activists to attain their goals via direct access to regulatory agencies. In Argentina, the fragmented federal system allowed the passage of legislation to conserve glaciers, yet prevented effective implementation of the law.

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“…In order to understand the long‐term political impact of the resource curse it is also necessary to explain the discontinuities that can occur in the appropriation and use of rents associated with natural resource abundance. There has been some discussion in the literature on the possibility of ‘overcoming’ or ‘turning back’ the curse, as both case studies and econometric work have demonstrated that the resource curse is not an iron law, but instead conditional on a whole range of factors — particularly institutional quality and human capital formation (Boschini et al., : 19; Collier and Hoeffler, : 630; Haber and Menaldo, : 2; Haslam and Ary Tanimoune, ; Kurtz and Brooks, : 752; Mehlum et al., : 1127). However, most analyses underline the historical and path‐dependent processes of state formation that culminated in a state apparatus capable of regulating natural resources in the public interest in some countries, but not in others (Crabtree and Crabtree‐Condor, ; Kurtz, : 480–1).…”

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Overcoming the Resource Curse: Reform and the Rentier State in Chile and Argentina, 1973–2000

Haslam¹

2016

Development and Change

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This article examines the possibility of overcoming the resource curse through case studies of the appropriation and use of mining rents derived from public-private joint ventures in Argentina and Chile in the period 1973-2000. In particular, it examines how two similar cases of sectoral liberalization resulted in divergent outcomes: the deployment of rent-appropriation strategies around multinational corporations in Argentina and an innovative and productivist approach based on joint ventures with foreign capital in Chile. The article argues that while the liberalization of the sector created similar opportunities for appropriating rents in both countries, the existence of strong civil society pressures in Chile constrained rent-appropriation and waste by the state, in comparison to the absence of such pressures in Argentina.

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The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data

Cited by 146 publications

References 39 publications

Stakeholders and Criteria on a Mining Project using AHP and Entropy-Weight Methods

Stakeholders and Criteria on a Mining Project using AHP and Entropy-Weight Methods

The Two Sides of Pascua Lama: Social Protest, Institutional Responses, and Feedback Loops

Overcoming the Resource Curse: Reform and the Rentier State in Chile and Argentina, 1973–2000

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