Publications of Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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La apuesta por la infraestructura: inversión pública y la reproducción de la escasez hídrica en contextos de gran minería en Perú y Colombia
Las políticas públicas y privadas típicamente consideran la construcción de infraestructuras como la respuesta más apropiada a los problemas de escasez y disputas por el agua en contextos de minería a gran escala. Sin embargo, la infraestructura en sí misma no siempre trae soluciones. En este contexto, nos preguntamos: ¿Cuáles son las lógicas que gobiernan […]
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Institutional Innovations in Mining Contexts: the Experience of Community Water Monitoring in Argentina and Peru
In the context of institutional transformations that resulted from the mining expansion in Latin America, this article explores the emergence of a social institutional innovation: community based water monitoring. From a qualitative perspective the emergence of a new community form of environmental control in Argentina and Peru is analyzed. The article contributes to the debate […]
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A novel modelling toolkit for unpacking the Water-Energy-Food-Environment (WEFE) nexus of agricultural development
Increasing food demand has led to significant agricultural expansion globally with negative impacts on resources and the environment, a perfect manifestation of the Water-Energy-Food-Environment nexus. Whilst many tools have been developed to understand the complexity of the Water-Energy-Food-Environment nexus most have failed to explicitly consider biophysical and socio-economic aspects simultaneously. A novel Water-Energy-Food-Environment modelling toolkit […]
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Mining and urbanization: Ways of generating water insecurity in Andean territories
Mining has historically facilitated urban growth, and water access in towns and cities has become one of the most prevalent and divisive of the unresolved problems surrounding mining. Urban areas in the vicinity of large-scale mining ventures endure chronic water shortages, and these areas often turn to remote water sources to meet their needs even […]
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Manejando el éxito y el fracaso: estudio comparativo de los manejos locales de las JASS en la comunidad campesina de San Andrés de Yanacca y la comunidad campesina de Llactacunca para el mejoramiento del saneamiento rural
El objetivo del estudio es analizar de manera comparativa cómo se configuran los mecanismos institucionales híbridos (reglas y procedimientos formales e informales) en materia de manejo de recursos hídricos entre las comunidades campesinas de San Andrés de Yanacca y de Llactacunca (Cotabambas, Apurímac) que han adoptado el modelo de JASS propuesto por el Plan Nacional […]
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Los límites de la implementación de la Ley de Consulta Previa en los Andes peruanos
The authors discuss the impact of prior consultation policies in Peru, implemented in 2012 in response to the social conflicts that occurred in Bagua in 2009 and based on the conclusions of Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
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Perú | Construcción de infraestructuras: no perder las oportunidades de reducir las desigualdades en el acceso al agua
The construction of water infrastructure by itself does not solve the problem of water stress and scarcity in territories with large-scale mining and can generate unwanted collateral effects such as increases, conflicts and disputes in access to water. Based on the evidence from the cases of La Guajira in Colombia and Espinar in Peru, this […]
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Colombia | Producción de desigualdades en las relaciones con el agua: consecuencias de la construcción de infraestructuras
The construction of water infrastructure by itself does not solve the problem of stress and water scarcity in territories with large-scale mining and can generate and increase socio-environmental inequalities, conflicts and disputes in access to water. Based on the evidence of the case of La Guajira in Colombia, authors recommend that the construction of infrastructure […]
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Diversas formas de infraestructuras en el Perú y Colombia. El papel de las empresas mineras en el control y manejo del agua en contextos de escasez
In territories with large-scale mining, the construction of water infrastructure has generally been considered the most appropriate response to water scarcity problems. However, the infrastructure itself does not always provide solutions. When these constructions are mainly functional to the mining expansion and are imposed on the socio-environmental logic of the town, they end up aggravating […]
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Chile | Nuevos atributos en los protocolos de emergencia ambiental a considerar en el ámbito de la minería
Repeated incidents in mining operations in the Aconcagua river basin have generated uncertainty in the population about water quality, which has deepened the water crisis in the Valparaíso region. In this context, it is necessary for the State to improve its crisis management protocols against environmental accidents, through the inclusion of local actors. A coordinated […]
