Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry Evidence from South America
The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes - in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have been...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha Publikace |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London
Routledge
2012
Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Vydání: | 1 |
| Edice: | Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods |
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| ISBN: | 9780415710718, 0415620716, 9780415620710, 0415710715, 1136620222, 9781136620225, 1136620214, 9780203639030, 9781136620171, 9781136620218, 0203639030, 1136620176 |
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| Shrnutí: | The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes - in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have been social conflict, environmental damage and underperforming national economies. As the extractive economy has entered another boom period over the last decade, not least in Latin America, the countries in which this boom is occurring are challenged to interpret this ambiguity. Will the extractive industry yield, for them, economic development, or will its main gifts be ones of conflict, degradation and unequal forms of growth.
This book speaks directly to this question and to the different ways in which Latin American countries are responding to the challenge of extractive industry. The contributors are a mixture of geographers, economists, political scientists, development experts and anthropologists, who all draw on sustained field work in the region. By digging deep into both national and local experiences with extractive industry they demonstrate the ways in which it transforms economies, societies, polities and environments. They pay particular attention to the social conflict that extraction consistently produces, and they ask how far this conflict might usher in political and institutional changes that could lead to a more productive relationship between extraction and development. They also ask whether the existence of left-of-centre governments in the region changes the relationships between extractive industry and development.
The book makes clear the immense difficulties that countries and regional societies face in harnessing extractive industry for the collective good. For the most part the findings question the wisdom of the development model that many countries in the region have taken up and which emphasises the produc |
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| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780415710718 0415620716 9780415620710 0415710715 1136620222 9781136620225 1136620214 9780203639030 9781136620171 9781136620218 0203639030 1136620176 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780203639030 |