Social-environmental conflicts in Chile: is there any potential for an ecological constitution?

M Berasaluce, P Díaz-Siefer, P Rodríguez-Díaz… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Social unrest is on the rise worldwide amid deepening inequalities, environmental
degradation, and job crises worsened by increasing social-environmental conflicts. In Chile …

Lithium extractivism: perpetuating historical asymmetries in the 'Green economy'

S Mejia-Muñoz, S Babidge - Third World Quarterly, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The 'Green economy', a central plank of the sustainable development political and economic
international agenda, relies on industrial extraction of water, minerals and other earths to …

Extractivismo en Chile: la producción del territorio minero y las luchas del pueblo aimara en el Norte Grande

H Romero-Toledo - Colombia Internacional, 2019 - journals.openedition.org
Objetivo/contexto: Este artículo analiza, desde la geografía crítica, la producción del
territorio minero del Norte de Chile y el proceso de producción de identidades aimaras, y …

[HTML][HTML] Andean peatlands at risk? Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme NDVI anomalies, water extraction and drought severity in a large-scale mining area of Atacama …

RO Chavez, O Meseguer-Ruiz, M Olea… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the Andes, multiple human and climatic factors threaten the conservation of bofedales, a
type of high altitude peat forming wetland widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical …

“Ecoalfabetização ancestral”: por uma valorização dos saberes indígenas para um futuro sustentável na América Latina

ANS dos Santos… - … De Educación Y …, 2024 - ojs.europubpublications.com
O artigo aborda a ecoalfabetização, enfatizando a importância de reconhecer e integrar os
saberes ancestrais dos povos indígenas na América Latina. Problematiza-se a forma como …

Biocultural calendars across four ethnolinguistic communities in southwestern South America

R Rozzi, R Álvarez, V Castro, D Núñez, J Ojeda… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since the mid‐20th century, the so‐called Great Acceleration (sensu Steffen et al., 2007,
https://doi. org/10.1579/0044-7447 (2007) 36 [614: TAAHNO] 2.0. CO; 2) has amplified …

Latent rural depopulation in Latin American open-pit mining scenarios

SE Uribe-Sierra, P Mansilla-Quiñones, AI Mora-Rojas - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The increasing expansion of open-pit mining and the drastic transformations of land use in
Latin America have led to processes of rural depopulation among traditional inhabitants …

Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert: 19th and early 20th century mining/water extraction in The Taltal district, northern Chile

M Mendez, M Prieto, M Godoy - Political Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
The Chilean water model imposed by the Chilean dictatorship in 1981 is broadly known as a
radical example of neoliberal water management. Several studies have focused their …

Reframing pastoral practices of bofedal management to increase the resilience of Andean water towers

K Yager, M Prieto, RI Meneses - Mountain Research and Development, 2021 - BioOne
Across the Andes, a critical challenge for mountain socioecological systems is securing
water for future generations. Pastoral communities are especially vulnerable because their …

Bread for today, hunger for tomorrow. Social impacts of community development agreements in the North of Chile

SMC Puschner - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Negotiations and Community Development Agreements (CDA) are a problematic
feature in light of indigenous culture because they give the green light to territorial …