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Thursday, 28 de November de 2024Book Launch Transitions, citizen mobilization and institutional changes: lessons from territories with large-scale mining in Peru, Colombia and Chile
Based on the question “To what extent can grassroots initiatives be consolidated as opportunities to promote a transition towards more sustainable and equitable mining territories?”, this book presents various initiatives and experiences of socio-institutional change generated by citizen movements in territories with large-scale mining in Peru, Colombia and Chile, with special emphasis on the opportunities […]
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Tuesday, 26 de November de 2024
Impactos y desafíos del monitoreo comunitario ambiental en contextos de industria minera en el Perú y Chile
In this chapter, the authors explore the impact of community environmental monitoring (MCA) in territories with a long history of mining in Peru and Chile. They find that this initiative has a positive impact on the political empowerment of local communities, which turn it into a tool to regain control of their environment through environmental […]
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Tuesday, 26 de November de 2024
Conflictos y consensos: los múltiples matices de la exclusión minera en el Perú
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that the delimitation of areas with mining restrictions promoted by the Peruvian state apparatus does not always enjoy the social legitimacy and institutional effectiveness necessary to guarantee the exclusion of mining in areas of high economic, cultural or socio-ecosystemic value. In contrast, exclusion zones established by social movements with high […]
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Tuesday, 26 de November de 2024
Gran minería y transformaciones productivas en distritos mineros en el Perú: un análisis del periodo 2001-2019
In this context, the study of potential productive transformations in the territories under the influence of large-scale mining is a topic still little explored by specialized research. This may be due to the fact that these are long-term processes which, given their complexity, are difficult to measure in short periods of time, on which most […]
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Wednesday, 13 de November de 2024
Upcoming event in Santiago de Chile : Challenges of mining public policy in Chile. A view from the civil society
The development of metallic and non-metallic mining in Chile has brought challenges that governments have insufficiently addressed. This is expressed in the high levels of socio-environmental conflict in the sector and institutional weakening. Our event aims to critically analyze the social and environmental aspect of Mining Environmental Liabilities and the lithium industry in Chile in […]
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Wednesday, 13 de November de 2024
Transiciones, movilización ciudadana y cambios institucionales: lecciones desde territorios con minería a gran escala en el Perú, Colombia y Chile
In the context of a growing demand for critical minerals for the global energy transition, a new mining boom is expected in the Andean sub-region. This book explores initiatives for socio-institutional change promoted by citizen movements in mining territories in Peru, Colombia and Chile. The cases presented analyze the opportunities and limitations of these initiatives […]
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Tuesday, 5 de November de 2024
Manuel Glave to be panelist at forum on governance of Amazonian road infrastructure projects
Our senior researcher Manuel Glave will be a panelist at the Forum “Road planning in the face of illicit economies in the Amazon”, organized by the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development Peru. At the event, participants will share alternatives to strengthen the development and governance of Amazonian road infrastructure projects. Free admission, prior registration […]
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Monday, 7 de October de 2024
GRADE, AIDER and USAID Peru presented the systematization of the Alianza Forestal Project
Last Friday, October 4th, GRADE, AIDER and USAID Peru presented the systematization document of the Alianza Forestal Project (Forestry Alliance Project), which implemented a holistic approach to Communal Forest Management (CFM) in seven Cacataibo and Shipibo-Conibo indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon, in Ucayali. The document was prepared by Manuel Glave, Marcela Cavassa, Oriana Heredia […]
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Tuesday, 17 de September de 2024
Eduardo Zegarra at APRODEH colloquium: “In the next decade, the probability that the country’s most important aquifer will collapse is high”
“In the next decade, the probability that the most important aquifer in the country will collapse is high. The amount of water that is being extracted is leading to the fact that the water from this aquifer cannot be used due to salinization or collapse”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, participated in the III […]
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Tuesday, 27 de August de 2024
Proyecto Alianza Forestal: manejo de bosques comunales para la sostenibilidad socioeconómica y ambiental
Since 2019, the Forest Alliance Project has implemented a communal forest management model in seven native Amazonian communities of the Shipibo-Konibo and Kakataibo ethnic groups. To do so, it adopted an ecosystem approach to communal territory, which improves the livelihoods of indigenous families through sustainable enterprises. This book gathers the systematization of the project experience […]
