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Las reglas ambientales del desarrollo económico: la regulación de la contaminación del aire generada por las fundidoras de Chuquicamata y La Oroya

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  • José Carlos Orihuela

    (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)

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Why and how do societies transform the environmental rules of economic development, or fail to do so? This article compares the experiences of Chile and Peru in the regulation of smelting activities between 1990 and 2010. Air pollution from smelters in Chuquicamata and La Oroya, each emblematic of the two countries’ mining industries, did not give rise to nationally destabilising protest. Nevertheless, despite the absence of pressing discontent with pollution, the environmental rules for mining could still be improved as a result of policy network activism and through highly idiosyncratic institutional channels. The analysis shows that policy entrepreneurship for Chuquicamata was enhanced by a national institutional environment that favoured bureaucratic autonomy, while parallel action for La Oroya was constrained by a political economy of state weakness and elite disregard.

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  • José Carlos Orihuela, 2014. "Las reglas ambientales del desarrollo económico: la regulación de la contaminación del aire generada por las fundidoras de Chuquicamata y La Oroya," Revista Economía, Fondo Editorial - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, vol. 37(74), pages 213-246.
  • Handle: RePEc:pcp:pucrev:y:2014:i:74:p:213-246
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    Keywords

    Chile; Peru; environment; development; mining; institutions; policy entrepreneurs;
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    JEL classification:

    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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