Extraterritorial Investments, Environmental Crisis, and Collective Action in Latin America

Pablo Ospina Peralta, Anthony Bebbington, Patric Hollenstein, Ilana Nussbaum and Eduardo Ramírez

World Development, 2015, vol. 73, issue C, 32-43

Abstract: A growing number of extraterritorial private-sector actors, often in partnership with the state, are expanding the frontiers of extractive and primary export economies to new rural territories in Latin America. This paper analyzes the conditions that might drive meaningful efforts to address environmental problems in territories dominated by large, externally controlled natural resource-based activities. It studies three cases: salmon aquaculture in Chiloé (Chile), fruit growing in O’Higgins (Chile), and gas production in Tarija (Bolivia). We conclude that such efforts are unlikely to occur unless environmental problems directly threaten the short-term viability of the activities or social movements emerge to demand change.

Keywords: Latin America; Bolivia; Chile; extraterritorial actors; environmental institutions; extractive economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.020

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