The Determinants of Social Conflict in the Latin American Mining Sector: New Evidence with Quantitative Data

Paul Alexander Haslam and Nasser Ary Tanimoune ()

World Development, 2016, vol. 78, issue C, 401-419

Abstract: This paper builds on the case study work into conflict between mining firms and nearby communities through a statistical analysis of the determinants of social conflict at the local level in the mining sector in Latin America. The analysis is based on an original dataset of 640 geo-located mining properties at the advanced exploration stage and above, which includes GIS information on environment and land-use patterns around the property, sub-national socio-economic characteristics of the population, firm and mining property characteristics, as well as information about known social conflicts.

Keywords: mining; social conflict; foreign investment; environment; livelihoods; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.020

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