Social Conflict, Economic Development and the Extractive Industry
Evidence from South America
The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes - in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have been social conflict, environmental damage and underperforming national economies. As the extractive economy has entered another boom period over the last decade, not least in Latin America, the countries in which this boom is occurring are challenged to interpret this ambiguity. Will the extractive industry yield, for them, economic development, or wi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-136-62022-5
- EAN: 9781136620225
- Produktnummer: 13839993
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'477 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 10 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Anthony Bebbington is Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, USA. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK, and Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Lima.
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