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"Remoteness" and environmental conflicts: some insights from the political ecology and economic geography of copper

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  • Roldan Muradian
  • Mauricio Folchi
  • Joan Martinez-Alier

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This paper describes some historical features of the global economic geography of copper, and explores the conditions underpinning environmental conflicts in this sector, while showing some examples. We found that Europe and Japan are progressively more dependent on imports from developing countries to cover internal copper demand. In contrast, copper production in the USA has considerably increased during recent decades. During the 1990s, there was a boom of Latin American copper exports, led by Chile. We point out that population density, negotiation strategies, environmental performance, distribution of profits and the local notion of social rights are the major steering forces of environmental conflicts in the mining sector. We argue that the location of mines in isolated regions, stricter environmental policies and investments in updating environmental technologies have prevented the emergence of environmental conflicts during the Chilean copper boom.

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  • Roldan Muradian & Mauricio Folchi & Joan Martinez-Alier, 2004. ""Remoteness" and environmental conflicts: some insights from the political ecology and economic geography of copper," International Journal of Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(3), pages 321-339.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsusd:v:7:y:2004:i:3:p:321-339
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    1. Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Mălina & Petrescu, Dacinia Crina & Azadi, Hossein & Petrescu-Mag, Ioan Valentin, 2018. "Agricultural land use conflict management—Vulnerabilities, law restrictions and negotiation frames. A wake-up call," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 600-610.
    2. Reidar Staupe-Delgado, 2020. "The water–energy–food–environmental security nexus: moving the debate forward," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 22(7), pages 6131-6147, October.
    3. AvcI, Duygu & Adaman, Fikret & Özkaynak, Begüm, 2010. "Valuation languages in environmental conflicts: How stakeholders oppose or support gold mining at Mount Ida, Turkey," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(2), pages 228-238, December.

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