Publications of Gerardo Damonte
-
Transformación de la representatividad política local en contextos extractivos a gran escala en los Andes peruanos
El artículo muestra cómo los escenarios de conflicto y movilización contra el mega-proyecto minero Las Bambas (Chalhuahuacho) han generado cambios en el peso institucional y representación política de los municipios y comunidades campesinas locales.
-
Profit-based versus Production-based Tax Regimes: Latin America’s Experience
This Brief uses the examples of Peru and Chile to highlight Latin American experiences when migrating from production-based to profit-based tax regimes, in particular arguing that profit-based regimes seem to be the best choice in the current Latin American context of a mining boom.
-
Rent Distribution and Extractive Industry Conflict: The Latin American Approach
The Brief presents an overview of the law, and some reflections about the reasons why it seems to not be as effective as was hoped in reducing Peru’s conflict.
-
Latin American Approaches to Extractive Industry Conflict
his Guide reviews the underlying causes and actors involved in extractive industries conflict, then analyses Latin American countries’ responses and policies in recent years.
-
Desarrollo rural y recursos naturales
Tres Mimeos del Seminario Recursos naturales y desarrollo rural en el Perú (1980-2010) realizado en noviembre del 2010 con el auspicio de la Fundación Ford, a través del Instituto de Educación Internacional y del IDRC.
-
Dinámicas rentistas: transformaciones institucionales en contextos de proyectos de gran minería
Este artículo pretende responder las siguientes preguntas: ¿Cómo afecta la entrada de proyectos mineros a gran escala la organización rural en el Perú actual? ¿En qué medida los procesos de cambio institucional están asociados a cambios generales en la ruralidad andina y en qué medida son dependientes del desarrollo extractivo?
-
Indigenous People, Conflict and Extractive Industries: Latin American Approaches
Drawing on Latin American experiences, this Brief outlines three successively implemented policy packages that have strengthened indigenous peoples’ cultural, territorial and consultation rights, recognising them as key stak
-
Managing Conflict Through Consultation: Latin America’s Experience
This Brief characterises and analyses the different types of local consultation seen in the region, focusing on the diverse actors that lead the processes and providing illustrative examples of each.
-
Ecuador’s Yasuní-ITT: Rethinking the Conservation vs. Extraction Dilemma
Ecuador’s innovative proposal for not developing its Yasuní-Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (Yasuní-ITT) oil fields presents an alternative strategy for resolving the conservation versus extractive industry development dilemma.
-
From Expropriation to Social Licence: Accessing Land for Extractive Industries
This brief describes the key factors that have enabled this transformation, and provides examples to illustrate the main social licence strategies in use in Latin America.
