Infrastructure and Inclusive Development through “Free, Prior, and Informed Consent” of Indigenous Peoples

Rosemary Morales Fernholz

Chapter Chapter 9 in Physical Infrastructure Development: Balancing the Growth, Equity, and Environmental Imperatives, 2010, pp 225-258 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Overall, the aim of major infrastructure projects to exploit natural resources, such as large dams and extractive industries for hydrocarbons and hard minerals, is to improve economic growth and well-being in a country or region. Yet, many studies show that the people living in the proximate areas frequently do not share in these benefits, and often suffer major economic, health, and cultural losses. This chapter focuses on these kinds of major infrastructure projects in developing countries, considered important and beneficial nationally, yet disruptive and even detrimental in the remote areas that are home to indigenous peoples and their communities.1 It is important to review the social impacts of these projects because world trends indicate that infrastructure development will reach practically all remote areas, communities, and peoples in the twenty-first century, and global demands for energy and natural resources will require a major expansion of large-scale infrastructure projects. With current global concern for the environment and the social condition of vulnerable people, there are opportunities and new approaches to improve distributional impacts of major infrastructure projects. This chapter shows the positive developments in this regard and issues that still need to be addressed.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Local People; Indigenous People; Civil Society Organization; Indigenous Group (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230107670_9

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